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Ongoing History of New Music 

Ongoing History Daily: Concert sponsorships

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concerts, Jovan, Rolling Stones, Selling Out, Sponsorships, Touring

Whenever a band gets a sponsorship for a tour, there are always those who scream “Sellout!  How dare a band

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Music News 

And the highest-grossing tour this year was…

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bad Bunny, Concerts, Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Grosses, Touring, U2

Outside of a few lingering pre-Christmas shows, the live music industry is about to enter its holiday hibernation. As everyone

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Poll 

Weekly survey: What’s your opinion on encores at concerts?

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Concerts, Encores, Twitter

Years ago, an act would only come onstage for an encore–i.e. play a few more songs that they hadn’t planned

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Music History 

What’s the story of acts doing encores in concert?

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concerts, Encores, Mozart

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Encores really bug some concertgoers. Why go through the motions of

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Music Industry 

The live music industry is in big trouble. Here’s why

October 24, 2022October 24, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Burnout, Concerts, Garbage, Live Music, Live Nation, Touring

[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Shawn Mendes fans were disappointed this past summer when the singer announced

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Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 960: Rock’s greatest disasters

October 14, 2022October 15, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bataclan, Concerts, Deaths, Disasters, Festivals, Injuries, Radiohead, Roskilde, Woodstock

Humanity has always been beset by disasters, whether they be acts of God or something we somehow brought on ourselves.

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Music Industry 

Garbage is the latest band to warn about doom with the live music industry

October 13, 2022October 14, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concerts, Garbage, Live Music

You’d think that with a band with a track record like Garbage would have no trouble putting together a profitable

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Music News AJMT
Music News 

Random music news for Thursday, October 6, 2022

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Adam Jones, Concerts, Eddie Van Halen, James Bond, Kanye West, Kirk Hammett, Metal Guitar, Metallica, Snoop Dogg, Tool

Chernobyl frogs are now very, very goth. And probably radioactive, too. In music news for October 6, what have we

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Music Industry Tech 

I have seen the future of music and it’s called the Web3 musicverse

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concerts, Metaverse, Royalties, Touring, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web3

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] SINGAPORE — If you want to kill a conversation quickly, just

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Music News 

Introducing Massey Hall+, a new livestreaming platform

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concerts, livestream, Massey Hall, MasseyHall+

Toronto’s Massey Hall has come a long way since it opened in 1894. After nearly $200 million in renovations, the

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Music News 

Keith John Correa–“The Original Kid Rock”–has died

August 10, 2022August 11, 2022 Alan Cross 6 Comments Concerts, Kid Rock, Original Kid Rock, Toronto

If you’ve been to any concert in Toronto over the last thirty years, it was inevitable that you would have

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