Random music news for Monday, March 13, 2023
If you use the word “very” too much, this website will help. I can see it being very useful instrumental in writing. Also very interesting engrossing is music news for March 13, 2023.
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Compact Discs
The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 975: More vinyl stories
At the dawn of the 21st century, vinyl was dead, dead, dead. We were all going digital and the general consensus was that we were going digital so there was no point in
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Vinyl has another moment in 2022
Despite supply chain issues, vinyl had another good year in 2022, at least in terms of revenue. While figures aren’t in for Canada and the US yet, the UK reports that for the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Things you might not realize about streaming
[We’re taking a break over the holidays. New shows start the first weekend in January. – AC] Once upon a time, music was sold to us on pieces of plastic. We had to
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Weekly survey: When was the last time you bought a CD of a new release?
When Swifties overwhelmed Spotify at midnight Friday morning, the site crashed. That was a clear indication that Taylor Swift was going to have a very, very good week with sales of her Midnights
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Random music news for Monday, June 27, 2022
This could be the biggest leap in beer technology since we dispensed with can openers. Think about how much that might change your life as you read some music news for June 27,
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Something weird is happening with compact discs. They’re selling like crazy again!
When I opened the weekly report from Luminate, the company that keeps track of the recorded music industry, I thought there was a glaring error. But there it was on the screen: Canadian
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Ongoing History Daily: The first live Tragically Hip album
The live Tragically Hip album is called Live Between Us and there’s a great story about the origin of the title. Back in 1986, just as the band was starting out, they spotted
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Ongoing History Daily: SHM CDs
A lot of people have no idea that the technology behind compact discs dates back to the 1970s. Other than a few minor tweaks, the CDs that we buy today work on technology
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Random music news for Saturday, March 12, 2022
Does anyone else find it strange that news networks will show the uncut carnage from Ukraine but if there’s any swearing in the clip they’ll bleep that out? So a “fuck” or “shit”
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I might just have to rekindle my love affair with CDs. Here’s why.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] I first saw my first compact disc in March 1983 when the radio station where I was working got its first player and half-dozen
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