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Random music news for Monday, January 25, 2021

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Daniel Lanois, EVs, Guitar Solos, Judas Priest, Marc Maron, Metal, Rob Halford, Sony, TikTok, Trapt, Ultra Music Festival

If you don’t have enough to fret about, take a look at Satanist robots and vampire dolls. Got that? Then

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Listen Up! to Mark Howard’s tale on 30 years of producing great records

May 20, 2019May 19, 2019 Amber Healy 0 Comments Daniel Lanois, Mark Howard, Neil Young, REM, The Neville Brothers, The Tragically Hip, Tom Waits, U2

What do The Tragically Hip’s Day for Night, Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy, The Neville Brother’s Yellow Moon and REM’s Automatic

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Daniel Lanois Among the 99 People Named to Order of Canada

July 1, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alan Doyle, Alex Trebek, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Lanois, Graydon Carter, Mike Myers, Order of Canada

The Order of Canada, this country’s highest civilian award, is given out twice a year. The latest crop of 99

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Music News 

Random Music News for Saturday, June 24, 2017

June 24, 2017June 23, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Black Sabbath, Daniel Lanois, Glastonbury, Grenfell Tower, iPhone, O2 Arena, Pete Townshend, Stage Fright, Teenager, Wearables

Seventy years ago today, the first widely reported sighting of UFOs was made by Kenneth Arnold around Mount Rainer, Washington.

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The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 788: U2 and The Joshua Tree, 30 Years Later (Part 2) [Music and Podcast Embedded]

May 14, 2017May 22, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Daniel Lanois, Joshua Tree, U2

Whenever an artist goes into the studio, they hope for the best but expect the worst. You want the resulting

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Music History Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 787: U2 and The Joshua Tree, 30 Years Later (Part 1) [Music and Podcast Embedded]

May 5, 2017May 10, 2017 Alan Cross 2 Comments Daniel Lanois, The Joshua Tree, U2

On March 9, 1987, a little more than ten years after a bunch of kids met up in a Dublin

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Music History 

Here’s a Taste of My Interview with Daniel Lanois About U2’s Joshua Tree Album

March 13, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Daniel Lanois, The Joshua Tree, U2

The 30th anniversary of the release of U2’s The Joshua Tree was Thursday, March 9. This past Sunday (March 12),

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Music News 

Special 30th Anniversary Joshua Tree Event for U2 Fans This Sunday in Toronto

March 10, 2017March 13, 2017 Alan Cross 1 Comment Daniel Lanois, Hard Rock Cafe, Joshua Tree, U2

U2 fans already know that yesterday (March 9) was the 30th anniversary of the release of The Joshua Tree, an

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Random Music News for Friday, January 29, 2016

January 29, 2016January 29, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Amazon, Anthrax, Daniel Lanois, David Bowie, Duncan Bowie, Eagles, Ghostface Killah, James Packer, Kevin Bacon, Mariah Carey, Martin Shkreli, Smithisonian, Sting, Vince Gill, Wu-Tang Clan

On this day in 1984, Michael Jackson’s head caught on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial. Some stories

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Interview 

Daniel Lanois to Offer TIFF Talk This Wednesday

November 3, 2014November 3, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Daniel Lanois, TIFF

If you’re in the Greater Toronto Area and are free Wednesday night, you might want to consider attending a special

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Music News 

So I Talked to Daniel Lanois About the New U2 Record…

August 15, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Daniel Lanois, Eve Hewson, Steve Lillywhite, U2

Daniel Lanois is one of the big names performing at next week’s Green Belt Harvest Picnic outside of Hamilton next

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The Backstage Project Podcast

The Backstage Project Podcast with Mark Silver focuses on the stories behind the biggest and best entertainment products, events, and companies. We go behind the scenes with amazing people who have done or are doing extraordinary things to entertain you, the audience. From sporting events to concerts, from cable tv to music apps; if it’s made an impact on the entertainment world, we cover it.

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