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Ongoing History of New Music Daily: Mispressed Records

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment CDs, Compact Discs, Lawrence Welk, Mispressed CDs

I often get emails from people asking about mispressed CDs and records. Occasionally, there are mixups at the pressing plant

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Random music news for Friday, December 11, 2020

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments AEG, CDs, Clash, Crocs, Dave Grohl, Gene Simmons, Goo Goo Dolls, Jason Slater, Jon Bon Jovi, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Muppets, My Chemical Romance, Post Malone, Sandinista, Third Eye Blind, TikTok

To start the weekend, here’s a puppy riding a rooster. Now let’s try some music news for December 11, 2020.

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Music Industry 

Can you safely and properly recycle CDs? Yes, but…

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Alan Cross 2 Comments CDs, Compact Discs

Look around your place. How many CDs do you have? How many of them still spark joy? How many have

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Music Industry 

Here’s a visualization of the evolution of the music industry since 1977.

October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cassettes, CDs, Streaming, Vinyl

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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Should we still be buying CDs? Yes.

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Alan Cross 4 Comments CDs, Compact Discs

I think the last time I bought a CD was in the UK about 18 months ago. I’d stumbled on

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Random music news for Friday, June 5, 2020.

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments AMC Theatres, BandCamp, CDs, Dave Bidini, Elephants, Iggy Pop, Kanye West, Kate Bush, Live Nattion, NWA, Paul Barton, Protests, Steve's Music, Tiger King, Tool, Wuhan

Plague. Economic ruin. Rioting. Murder hornets. But at least there’s some good news on the Yellowstone supervolcano front. Can you

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Music Industry 

CDs, vinyl, and record stores are under COVID-19 stress. Can they survive?

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 Alan Cross 1 Comment CDs, Record Stores, Vinyl

In my world (albeit a very small one), record stores perform an essential service. But in the interests of crushing

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A new graphic showing how music sales have evolved over the last 30 years.

February 28, 2020February 27, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments CDs, Music sales, Streaming

We’ve purchased music in an astonishing number of formats over the last three decades: vinyl, 8-track, cassettes, CD, downloads, streaming,

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Random music news for Wednesday, December 11, 2019

December 11, 2019December 10, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments CDs, Chris Cornell, Crocs, Malaysia, Operating Room Music, Post Malone, Soundgarden

Finally coming home today, but it’s a long ride: DPS-IST-MUC-YYZ. Shouldn’t take more than, say, 28 hours. Here’s music news

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Random music news for Monday, September 23, 2019

September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments CDs, Clash, Harry Styles, Liam Gallagher, Qanta, Rap Lyrics, Sa, Taylor Swift, Tool, Veronicas, YouTube Music

First day of fall. While I love autumn, I’m trying not to think of what’s coming next unless I absolutely

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By the end of the year, vinyl could outsell CDs for the first time since 1986 (in the US, anyway).

September 8, 2019September 9, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment CDs, Compact Discs, Vinyl

The sales of compact discs have been in a death spiral for almost twenty years and no amount of pulling

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