Is this guy now officially the World’s Most Embarrassing Dad? Maybe. I’ll try to keep the embarrassment to a minimum with music news for September 22, 2023. More music news? Check here. BONUS:
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Before the mid-60s, there was no such thing as personalized playlists, this idea that you could collect all your favourite songs in one place so you could listen back to all of them
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The cassette, a once-useful and now completely irrelevant music format, refuses to die. It’s not that people are buying them to play, though; they’re collectibles and tchotchkes and merch. Goldin, a marketplace for
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I’m a lifelong U2 fan and I’ve collected plenty of their stuff over the years, but even I’m scratching my head at the bewildering number of variations in which Songs of Surrender will
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This is why you don’t want to use “‘ji32k7au4a83” as your password. Who knew? Consider that as you move onto music news for February 8, 2022. Claim: Working class people are being priced
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One of the many great things about music is that we can enjoy it anywhere. Everyone has a smartphone and every smartphone has the capability of playing music whether you’re listening to tracks
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A quick search online for “cassettes” will uncover some results about how the format is making a comeback. Hell, the annual Cassette Store Day event is coming up next month. My position on
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[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] One night while trying something other than endlessly doomscrolling for stories about Donald Trump, climate change, and the pandemic, I chanced upon an ad for
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Let me be clear from the outset: I do not like cassettes. Anyone who fetishizes them in today’s digital world probably didn’t live through
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On Monday (April 19), the US Supreme Court refused to hear appeals on a federal law that would see a lifetime ban from buying a gun if they were convicted of a non-violent
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Back in February, Lou Ottens died at the age of 94. If you’ve ever made an old-school mixtape, you owe everything to him. Ottens was an engineer at Phillips, the Dutch electronics company.
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