Random music news for Tuesday, February 8, 2022
This is why you don’t want to use “‘ji32k7au4a83” as your password. Who knew? Consider that as you move onto
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Cassettes
The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 924: The History of Portable Music, Part 1
One of the many great things about music is that we can enjoy it anywhere. Everyone has a smartphone and
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Weekly survey: Are you into the so-called “cassette resurrection?”
A quick search online for “cassettes” will uncover some results about how the format is making a comeback. Hell, the
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I really, really miss old-school stores. Let me count the ways.
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] One night while trying something other than endlessly doomscrolling for stories about
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I found my old cassette collection in a crawlspace. It brought back these memories.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Let me be clear from the outset: I do not like
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This US Supreme Court decision on lifetime gun bans means you’d better not have sold bootleg cassettes
On Monday (April 19), the US Supreme Court refused to hear appeals on a federal law that would see a
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Ongoing History Daily: RIP Lou Ottens
Back in February, Lou Ottens died at the age of 94. If you’ve ever made an old-school mixtape, you owe
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The history of the cassette and why it refuses to die
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] People of a certain vintage couldn’t help feel a twinge of sad
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Random music news for Friday, March 26, 2021
This gives new meaning to the term “dirty money.” We’re number one! We’re number one! CA-NA-DA! Yay. And ew. Moving
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 907: Digital Debris part 1: B-sides and bonus tracks
We are very, very deep into the digital era when it comes to music. Virtually every song we could ever
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Here’s a visualization of the evolution of the music industry since 1977.
The recorded music industry has gone through a ton of changes in its 100+-year history. This visualization illustrates some of
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