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Random music news for Saturday, April 24, 2021

April 24, 2021April 24, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Club Music, Dave Grohl, Earth Day, French Kiss, Lil Louis, Podcasting

Okay, this NFT is way too weird. If you make it through that, check out music news for April 24,

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Is this really the best use for artificial intelligence and music?

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Aqua, Artificial Intelligence, Barbie Girl

A couple of weeks back, I reported on a project in which I was involved called The Lost Tapes of

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Cool! Music Industry 

If Kurt Cobain had lived, would he have written a song like this?

April 5, 2021April 6, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 27 Club, AI, Amy Winehouse, Artificial Intelligence, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Lost Tapes of the 27 Club, Mental Health, Over the Bridge

A couple of weeks back, I hosted an online event called The Lost Tapes of the 27 Club. Its purpose

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South Korea is using artificial intelligence to produce music by dead musicians

March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Dead Musicians, Lost Tapes Live, machine learning, South Korea

Artificial intelligence is being harnessed to do some interesting things. New programs are being used to learn and then extrapolate

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Random music news for Thursday, February 25, 2021

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Cannibal Corpse, Chance the Rapper, Covid, Daft Punk, Eddie Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Leeds, Paul McCartney, Peter Yarrow, Reading, Simon Cowell, Taylor Swift, Trisha Yearwood, Van Halen

A punk rock car followed by music news for February 25, 2021 (Via Paula) Something VERY weird happened with Eddie

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Random music news for Tuesday, February 9, 2021

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Danelectro, Electronic Music, Gene Simmons, Google, Greenpeace, Lars Ulrich, Marilyn Manson, Mary Wilson, Metallica, Morgan Wallen, Napster, Phoebe Bridgers, Supremes, TikTok, Universal

Now that the Super Bowl is in the books, the annual impeachment event starts today. This will be weird, of

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Gadgets 

Someone has programmed an AI to create an album in the style of The Beatles

January 6, 2021January 5, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Beatles, OpenAI

OpenAI Jukebox likes to program their SkyNet-like creations to mimic human creativity. Their latest project involved getting their machine to

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Would you like an AI to abuse your taste in music? Glad to help.

December 27, 2020December 24, 2020 Alan Cross 2 Comments AI, Spotify

Back in the day, we’d make a weekly trip to The Record Peddler on Carlton, right across from Maple Leaf

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Can’t get enough bass? This AI is playing an infinite bass solo

December 27, 2020December 24, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Bass Guitar

CJ Carr and Zack Zuckowski must really like bass players because they’ve programed their recurrent neural network (RNN) to generate

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Cool! Tech 

A fun Christmas music timesuck: Google’s Blob Orchestra.

December 20, 2020December 20, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Blob Orchestra, Google

Using some fun AI applications, Google has created The Blob Orchestra. Just define your blob’s musical range and go. (Via

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Random music news for Thursday, December 17, 2020

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Cardi B, Forbes, Hives, Jay-Z, Lorde, Offset, Radio

Yep. That’s about right. No worries. On to the next court. pic.twitter.com/xR2vA0FRzS — Brown Eyed Susan (@smc429) December 15, 2020

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