40 years ago today, MTV debuted
At 12:01 am on August 1, 1981, on a handful of cable systems across the US, this happened. At the time, MTV was considered a bad financial risk. Who would want to watch
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Random music news for Tuesday, September 10, 2019
On this day in 1977, the last guillotine execution was carried out in France. With that imagery in mind, here’s some music news for September 10, 2019. Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming
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Last gig on the summer speaking tour tonight. We’ll pick things up with more events in the fall. Meanwhile. here’s music news for July 24, 2019. Boris Johnson is the new PM of
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40 years ago, we were told that video killed the radio star. So did it? [SPOILER: No.]
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Through the latter half of the 1970s, some areas of the music community were having a Marshall McLuhan-esque existential crisis thanks to the rise
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It’s the night disguised extortionist appear at my door demanding empty calories while their families look on in approval. What’s wrong with this picture? Ponder that as we go through music news for
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Pomplamoose Covers “Video Killed the Radio Star”
Yay, Pomplamoose! Take that, Buggles.
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