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Random music news for Saturday, October 31, 2020

I’ll bet you’re expecting an opening link to something Halloween related. Nope. This is much more interesting. And so is

The album has been the main currency of the recorded music industry since about 1965 when it took over from

There will be plenty of unexpected and unintended consequences from the coronavirus pandemic. There will be few areas of our

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Once upon a time, there was a complicated decades-long ritual involved

Deezer, the France-based streaming music service, is always studying how people listen top music. They just completed a survey on

Did you listen to any albums over the weekend. By that I mean listening to an album from track one

Back in the days of vinyl albums, people tended to listen to records all the way through. We’d start with

For more than 50 years, the entire recorded music industry has been based on selling us albums. Although Columbia introduced

October 25, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Albums

Much has been written about the traditional long-playing album’s death, a casualty of the rise of streaming music services. Single

October 11, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Albums

There’s concern in some quarters that the idea of releasing an album is passé, that the format has been superseded

As the currency of the realm, the album caught a cold the original Napster made it possible to just grab