Ongoing History Daily: Re-tuning the world from 440 Hz
In the 1930s, a worldwide agreement was struck: Middle A on the piano would be forever tuned to 440 Hz everywhere, thereby making sure that all music and musical instruments
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We need a Diddy report to start the week
As you’ll soon see, the stories/theories/conspiracies around Diddy are pretty, pretty, pretty wild. Diddy has been connected to the devastating California wildfires. What? How? He’s in a jail in Brooklyn?
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Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 012: The Ever-Popular Kurt-Cobain-Was-Murdered Conspiracy
When something bad happens, we want to know why. The weirder and worse the event, the more we need to know. Something like this can’t possibly be random. Someone needs
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Let’s debunk the Kurt-Cobain-was-murdered conspiracy forever
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] When something bad happens, our natural reaction is to ask why. It’s also natural to look for something or someone to blame
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Have you heard Of these music conspiracy theories?
After this tour through conspiracy theories, you may want to get out the tinfoil and fashion a new hat. No one trusts anyone anymore. Governments, the media, Big Pharma, the
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Need more dumb Taylor Swift conspiracy theories? I got ’em.
There’s something very, very wrong with many Americans. A sizeable chunk of them are terrified about the power wielded by Taylor Swift. About one in five Americans–18%–think there’s some kind
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I’m loving the MAGA meltdown over Taylor Swift. Here’s a summary heads exploding.
I’m not a fan of Taylor Swift’s music, but I’m absolutely loving how Donald Trump and MAGA acolytes are losing their freakin’ minds over her popularity and potential political influence.
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Nearly 30 years after he died, Kurt Cobain’s autopsy report has been leaked. Allegedly.
When Kurt Cobain’s body was discovered on April 8, 1994, it was transferred to the local coroner and an autopsy was performed. The results of that autopsy were never made
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The great KGB punk conspiracy
You may be aware of a podcast that came out in the spring of 2020 that sought to get to the bottom of a certain musical mystery. Wind of Change explores the
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Will the new Bob Marley biopic resurrect an old conspiracy theory?
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] If you were part the minuscule audience who watched the MTV Music Video Awards last week (according to Nielsen overnights, only 865,000
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Random music news for Saturday, May 13, 2023
Love gadgets? Here are all the things unveiled at this weeks Google i/o conference. Meanwhile, over at the music news desk, here’s what’s happening on May 13, 2023. More music
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