True crime is a big, big deal in the world of podcasts. It’s now time to dive in from a music angle. My new venture, Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Hip-hop has a long, tragic history of murder and mayhem. Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Big L., Fat Pat, Mac Dre, Big Hawk, Magnolia Shorty,
Read MoreGoing to a concert should be about the fun, not a scenario in which people are worried about their photo being uploaded into a government database. Terrible incidents like the mass shootings in
Read MoreThe community of musicians is like any other. While most people are good, you will have your bad actors: musicians who murder, rape, rob and commit all sorts of horrible crimes. That’s the
Read MoreNickelback played Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday night. This is what greeted them. The warning came with this. And since Australia was settled by nothing but convicts, the country knows a thing or
Read MoreThe community of musicians is like any other. While most people are good, you will have your bad actors: musicians who murder, rape, rob and commit all sorts of horrible crimes. That’s the
Read MoreThe criminal justice system is a very weird ecosystem, especially in the United States. Slate looks at how prosecutors are using rap lyrics as evidence to throw more people in jail. [A] recent New
Read MoreI spend a couple of hours in Narita Airport long enough yesterday to hear the news about how two members of a Japanese pop group called AKB48 were hurt when a fan went
Read MoreIan Watkins is supposed to spend the next 35 years in jail for 13 different child porn offences, including attempted rapes of a baby. A baby. Here’s what the judge said on sentencing:
Read MoreIt seemed like a normal night at LaPita’s Restaurant in Annapolis, Maryland–until there were some objections over the music being played on the jukebox. At about 12:45am Friday, Martin Marroquin-Rodriguez got into a
Read MoreSomething seemed wrong with Pearl Jam’s accounts. Over the course of about four years, $380,000 had gone missing. Cash flow issues? Aging A/R that was out of control? A bookkeeping error? No. Embezzlement.
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