One of the most maddening things about music over the quarter century (well, for me, anyway) is The Loudness Wars this insane practice of making the apparent volume of music louder by adding
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The Grammys have pretty much backed themselves into irrelevance, but some of us still have to pay attention. Nevertheless, by mid-morning Monday, we’ll be reading how ratings were terrible and that the Grammys
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According to a new study that apparently needed to be conducted, truckers who listen to hard rock and metal have more sex than truckers who listen to other kinds of music. American Trucks
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By the time we got to the mid-70s, rock had become sufficiently organized so that there were rules. You did things THIS way and not THAT way. Then came punk. One of the
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The Grammys are all about pop and hip-hop with a little bit of country thrown in. Rock? Meh. The Grammys don’t seem to care, otherwise, we’d see more of it on the CBS
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Artists may go through many different phases in their careers. Sometimes, circumstances and market forces will see a band the originates in one genre drift into another. For example, when Culture Club first
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It’s been a while, but we have a new graphic from Cameron Gordon at Completely Ignored. What indie and alternative bands from the 00’s have done the best with streaming in Canada? Here’s
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Do you pop your headphones in when you go for a walk? Apparently this is what you’re listening to, according to Spotify sneakily scanning and analyzing and tracking everything you’re picking all the
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Back when The Simpsons still offered biting social commentary, season seven saw Homer try to impress Bart and Lisa by scoring tickets to the
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Rick Beato has a fairly convincing argument. Take, for example, Live and Throwing Copper. “As the 90s progressed, Live basically disappeared,” he says. After 2000, the band basically vanished. They weren’t alone: Everclear,
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This email from Bob popped in the other day. Hey Alan, Just getting caught up on the podcast. Question- is there an episode where you delve into what denotes “alternative”. My wife and
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