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Ongoing History of New Music

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1026: Mighty managers of rock

October 18, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

If you’re a musical artist and start to do well, the point will come when you need a manager. The manager is the person who looks after all the business stuff so the

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Lists

Which artists have been deepfaked the most? Here’s a list.

September 27, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

The enshitification of the internet continues as people insist on flooding the zone with crap like deepfake videos. It’s getting harder and harder to tell which videos are real and which are fake.

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Survey

Your “Okay Boomer” post for the week: Here’s a list of that generation’s least popular musicians.

July 16, 2024 Alan Cross 1 Comment 1 min read

I found this on a site called 24/7 Wall Street. They took a YouGov survey of the most popular pop artists the favourite music of the Baby Boomers and looked for the ones

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Ongoing History of New Music

The Ongoing History New Music, episode 1015: The most dangerous artists in rock

April 26, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 3 min read

One of the most attractive things about rock is that it’s often dangerous. From the very beginning, rock has been about rebellion, a disregard for the rules, and thumbing its nose at the

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Survey

Somone has mapped the top searched-for musicians

January 19, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

It’s another ad masquerading as a study–and it’s only for the US–but it’s still kinda fun. Crossword Helper took a look at Google search traffic, breaking things down into the most-searched-for musician in

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Music Industry

Let’s take a closer look at that Live Nation merch announcement 

September 28, 2023 Amber Healy 0 Comments 3 min read

If it sounded too good to be true, that’s because it probably is.  When Live Nation surprised musicians and fans alike on Tuesday by announcing they would no longer take a cut of

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Music News

Artists and musicians continue to support Ukraine in the war against Russia

March 28, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca . AC] The strength and resolve of the people of Ukraine in their fight against Russian invaders have galvanized support all over the world. These are tough,

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Music Industry

Are you a Canadian musician? This survey wants to hear from you about the age of COVID-19

January 12, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Music Canada, the spokesgroup for the recorded music industry in this country, wants to get a handle on how musicians are dealing with COVID-19. How are you getting by? ARE you getting by?

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Music Industry

Spotify Is Adding Direct Upload Tools. How Will Labels React?

September 22, 2018 Larry Lootsteen 0 Comments 2 min read

While anyone with a YouTube account can upload videos, Spotify has always been restrictive in allowing artists direct access to upload their music. Until now that is… So, Spotify allowing artists to upload

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Music News

Rivoli To Host Photo Exhibit

December 17, 2017 Larry Lootsteen 0 Comments 0 min read

This looks to be an interesting photo exhibit being hosted by the Rivoli and called In View. In View is a photo exhibition which reviews that past year in music by pulling together

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Music News

Artists, Labels and Copyrights: The Fight Continues

October 1, 2017 Larry Lootsteen 0 Comments 1 min read

Why aren’t artists taking advantage of this? Four years after copyright reversion for albums released after 1978 became a possibility, only a handful of artists have regained their masters. What’s the holdup? Todd

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Have I got a story for you! Award-winning Music Historian and host of the chart-topping Ongoing History of New Music Podcast Alan Cross unleashes his next amazing podcast. In every episode, Alan Cross takes you inside unbelievable true stories of crime, murder, scandal, strange deaths, unexplainable events, and the general mayhem from the music industry through the decades. There is a lot of bad behaviour that needs to be talked about. It’s a one-of-a-kind podcast featuring true crime stories from the world of music. OUT NOW!

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