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Music News 

Fleetwood Mac’s dangly balls sell for US$100,000. Here’s the story behind them.

December 10, 2022December 10, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Artwork, Balls, Herbert, Mick Fleetwood, Rumors, Rumours, Stevie Nicks, Worthington

When Fleetwood Mac was putting the finishing touches on the Rumours album, a designer named Desmond Strobel was hired to

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Music News 

Random music news for Wednesday, December 7, 2022

December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Artwork, Pink Floyd

Pong, the first computer video game, is turning 50. I feel old. On a more contemporary note, here’s music news

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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: In Utero fact

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Artwork, Cali, In Utero, Nirvana

If you have a copy of Nirvana’s In Utero CD, you might have wondered about the picture of the dude

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Music News 

Nirvana finally has something to say about the Nevermind baby lawsuit

December 25, 2021December 25, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Artwork, Lawsuit, Nevermind, Nirvana, Spencer Eldon

If you’ve been following along with the legal maneuvers of Spencer Eldon, you’ll know that he wants a lot of

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Music News 

Random music news for Saturday, July 24, 2021

July 24, 2021July 23, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alexa, Amazon, Anthony Kiedis, Apple, Artwork, Chris Martin, Concerts, Gen Z, Holograms, Live Nation, Punk, Rolling Stones, Shirley Manson, Spatial Audio, Whitney Houston

Olympics! Right. Probably should start watching, huh? But only after music news for July 24, 2021. To help get the

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Weekly survey: Do you miss album artwork and liner notes?

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Alan Cross 5 Comments Artwork, Liner Notes

I spent part of the weekend filing records and CDs, a task that should have taken no more than 15

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Music News 

Random music news for Friday, October 18, 2019

October 18, 2019October 18, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Artwork, Calm, Harry Potter, Hong King, Julian Casablancas, Rolling Loud, Vinyl, YouTube

On this day in 1951, The Studio for Electronic Music opened in Cologne, West Germany. It was the first such

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Music News 

We apparently haven’t seen the artwork for Tool’s Fear Inoculum yet.

August 20, 2019August 20, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Artwork

Ten days from today, Tool’s fifth album, Fear Inoculum, will arrive over 13 years after the last album. When official

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Music History 

The era of Led Zeppelin began 50 years ago today with the release of their debut album

January 12, 2019January 11, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment Artwork, George Hardie, Hindenburg, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin I, Sam Shere

When Jimmy Page formed Led Zeppelin (originally known as The New Yardbirds) in mid-1968, no one could have foreseen the

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Music News 

Random music news for Saturday, December 15, 2018

December 15, 2018December 14, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple Muisc, Artwork, Attitude is Everything, Drake, Elvis, Graceland, Kanye, Live Nation, Mariah Carey, MC5, Nazis, Netflix, Paul McCartney, Pirate Radio, Samples, Springsteen, Twenty One Pilots

Returning today from the NE Caribbean Command Centre. There’s just enough time to report on some music news for December

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Opinion 

Weekly survey: What is the worst album title of all time?

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 Alan Cross 23 Comments Album Cover, Album Titles, Artwork, Worst

You’ve written all the songs and painstakingly recorded everything. Now it’s time to release this unified body of work as

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