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Ongoing History Daily: DNA as a recorded music format

April 26, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Give it up to the guys in OK Go for continually finding new ways to be creative with their music. Their Hungry Ghosts album was once available on DNA.  And yes, I’m talking

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Record Collecting

Bored with collecting normal vinyl? Here are examples of abnormal vinyl.

May 8, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Last weekend, I spent a couple of hours at the semi-annual Downtown Record Show in Toronto. I brought along my usual amount of gambling

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Cool!

Someone has converted COVID-19’s DNA sequence into music. Here’s what the disease sounds like.

March 19, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

COVID-19’s DNA sequence has been distributed to researchers around the planet in an effort to come up with a vaccine for the disease. But that’s apparently not the only way this DNA is

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Music News

This band is selling one million copies of an album in a spray can. Wait–what?

October 22, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

One of the great albums of the late 90s is Mezzanine from Massive Attack. When it was released in 1998, it instantly became a trip-hop classic and is an excellent recording to use

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Massive Attack is re-released their Mezzanine album in WHAT format? You’re kidding, right?

April 21, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Whenever I want to test out a set of speakers, I bring along a copy of Massive Attack’s meticulously produced 1998 album, Mezzanine. If the speakers can faithfully produce the sonics of this compact

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Cool!Medical Mysteries of Music

“Smoke on the Water” Has Been Stored in Human DNA. Wait–What?

October 9, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Since its release n 1972, Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” has appeared on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD and all matter of digital files. Now, it’s been recorded on human DNA. And I

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Music News

Random Music News for Monday, September 18, 2017

September 18, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Polaris Music Prize Day! Come back tomorrow for all the results. And now, the music news for September 18. Did a Chinese streaming music company try to buy Spotify last year? That’s the

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Cool!

Using Music to Explain a New Breakthrough in Genetics

February 19, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Stick with this video. You’ll learn something pretty cool about the chemicals that make up your body.

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OK Go Will Release an Album on DNA. Yes, Deoxyribonucleic Acid.

November 25, 2014 Alan Cross 3 Comments 1 min read

Give it up to the guys in OK Go for continually finding new ways to be creative with their music.  Hungry Ghosts, their latest album, is available on DNA.  And yes, I’m talking

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WTF?

Imagine This: Canadian Dentist Wants to Clone John Lennon from an Old Tooth

April 15, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

A couple of years ago, Michael Zuk, a dentist from Edmonton, spent more than $30,000 to acquire a diseased molar that once resided in the mouth of one John Winston Ono Lennon.  His

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Ongoing History of New Music Podcast

Each week, the podcast looks at something from the alt-rock universe, from artist profiles to various thematic explorations. Whatever the episode, you’re definitely going to learn something that you might not find anywhere else. Trust us on this.

Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry

Have I got a story for you! Award-winning Music Historian and host of the chart-topping Ongoing History of New Music Podcast Alan Cross unleashes his next amazing podcast. In every episode, Alan Cross takes you inside unbelievable true stories of crime, murder, scandal, strange deaths, unexplainable events, and the general mayhem from the music industry through the decades. There is a lot of bad behaviour that needs to be talked about. It’s a one-of-a-kind podcast featuring true crime stories from the world of music. OUT NOW!

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