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Music News 

Is facial recognition coming to a show near you?

September 10, 2019September 9, 2019 Amber Healy 2 Comments Concerts, Crime, digital tracking, Facial Recognition, fight for the future, privacy, public safety, safety, Terrorism

Going to a concert should be about the fun, not a scenario in which people are worried about their photo

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Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music encore presentation: Hard Time – Musicians Who Have Gone to Jail

June 29, 2018July 1, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alien Ant Farm, As I Lay Dying, Cake, Charlatans UK, Coheed and Cambria, Crime, Lostprophets, Sid Vicious, Stone Roses, Stone Temple Pilots

The community of musicians is like any other. While most people are good, you will have your bad actors:  musicians

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Music News 

Nickelback Wanted for “Crimes Against Music” in Australia

May 20, 2015May 20, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment Brisbane, Crime, Nickelback, Queensland

Nickelback played Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday night. This is what greeted them.   The warning came with this.   And since

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Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music Episode 711: Hard Time: Musicians Who Have Gone to Jail

February 6, 2015February 8, 2015 Alan Cross 4 Comments Air Rage, Crime, Episode 710, Hard Time, Ian Brown, Ian Watkins, Murder, Pete McNeal, Rape, Rob Collins, Robbery, Sid Vicious

The community of musicians is like any other. While most people are good, you will have your bad actors:  musicians

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Controversy 

This is Nuts: Prosecutors are Using Rap Lyrics to Build Cases

July 28, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Crime, Hip-hop, Lyrics

The criminal justice system is a very weird ecosystem, especially in the United States.  Slate looks at how prosecutors are

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Music News 

Japanese Girl Group Attacked by Fan Armed with a Saw

May 26, 2014May 26, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments AKB48, Assault, Crime, Japan

I spend a couple of hours in Narita Airport long enough yesterday to hear the news about how two members

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Music News 

Sicko Ex-Losprophets Wants to Appeal His Pedophilia Sentence

January 24, 2014January 24, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Appeal, Crime, Ian Watkins, Lostprophets

Ian Watkins is supposed to spend the next 35 years in jail for 13 different child porn offences, including attempted

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WTF? 

Man Stabbed Over What Was Playing on the Jukebox

December 29, 2013December 29, 2013 Alan Cross 0 Comments Crime, Jukebox, Stabbing

It seemed like a normal night at LaPita’s Restaurant in Annapolis, Maryland–until there were some objections over the music being

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Music News 

Former Pearl Band Manager Pleads Guilty to Ripping Off the Band

December 24, 2013 Alan Cross 0 Comments Crime, Embezzlement, Pearl Jam

Something seemed wrong with Pearl Jam’s accounts.  Over the course of about four years, $380,000 had gone missing.  Cash flow

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Music News 

Ex-Lostprophets Pervert Now Being Investigated for Even More Sickness

December 20, 2013 Alan Cross 0 Comments Crime, Ian Watkins, Lostprophets

Ian Watkins, the sicko singer of Lostprophets, was sentenced to 35 years in jail Wednesday for a series of hideous

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Music News 

Lostprophets Singer Sicko Gets 29 Years in Jail

December 18, 2013 Alan Cross 1 Comment Crime, Ian Watikins, Lostprophets

Ian Watkins, the former singer for the Welsh band Lostprophets, is going to jail for a long time.  Probably not

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