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Ongoing History Daily: The rise of band logos

January 2, 2023January 2, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Band Logos, Beatles, Chicago, Doors, Logos, Love, Monkees

If you’re a musician, you’re also a brand, whether you like it or not. And for a brand to stick

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Sunday fun with isolated vocals featuring Jim Morrison and “Hello I Love You”

June 28, 2020June 28, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Doors, Isolated Vocals, Jim Morrison

Listening to isolated vocals–especially from the era before studio trickery and Auto Tune fakery–is revelatory because it shows the true

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Music News 

COVID-19 has created a market for coronavirus-related music merch

April 25, 2020April 26, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Doors, Masks, Ozzy

Korn might have been the first rock band to issue branded facemasks. Now everyone is getting into the game. A

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Music News 

What are the scariest rock songs of all time? Here are my 10 picks just in time for Halloween.

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 Alan Cross 6 Comments Bauhaus, Birthday Party, Dead Can Dance, Doors, Joy Division, Korn, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Suicide

I’m not a fan of Halloween, but I do like a good scare from things like movies, novels, and even

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Music News 

The most moving songs for Remembrance Day, November 11

November 11, 2018November 11, 2018 Alan Cross 5 Comments Angelic Upstarts, Billy Joel, Bryan Adams, Dire Straits, Doors, Kinks, Pink Floyd, Pogues, Remembrance Day, The Farm, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Tom Waits

One hundred years ago today, at 11 am on November 11, 2018, the guns fell silent on the battlefields of

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Music History 

Weekly survey: What band did you get into too late?

April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 Alan Cross 13 Comments Doors, Smiths

Years ago when I was still in high school, an older girl name Sharon asked me to transfer some of

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Music News 

Random Music News for Friday, December 29, 2017

December 29, 2017December 29, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Alice in Chains, Audio Processing, Bose, Doors, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Phone-Free Concerts, Pop Music, Princess Diana, Sonos, Tesla, U2

I walked into a restaurant for bacon and eggs this morning and what’s the first thing I heard? Mariah Carey’s

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Music News 

Random Music News for Friday, September 28, 2017

September 29, 2017September 29, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alexa, Amazon, David Bowie, Doors, Echo, Streaming, Taylor Swift

Back in the UK for a couple of days for a Sparks concert (that was last night), a trip to

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Music News 

Random Music News for Wednesday, July 5, 2017

July 5, 2017July 5, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alanis Morissette, Beer, Clint Eastwood, Donald Trump, Doors, Ed Sheeran, iPhone 8, Iron Maiden, Jay Z, Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner, MDMA, Neil Young, Sonnet Labs, Soundcloud, Spider-Man, Streaming, System of a Down, Twitter

There is NO productivity this week, is there? But isn’t that what summer is for? And now, music news for

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Music News
Music News 

Random Music News for Tuesday, January 3, 2017

January 3, 2017January 3, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Doors, George Michael, Guitar Riffs, Istanbul, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Of Monsters and Men, Real Estate, Reina

Back to work. I know, I know. The first week of January is always THE WORST. Still, we must trudge

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Music Industry 

This Guy Looks After the Legacy of Kurt Cobain, The Ramones, The Doors and More

June 20, 2016February 24, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Doors, Jam Inc., Janis Joplin, Jeff Jampol, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Ramones

When a famous artist passes on, he/she/they can be outlived by their art, a massive and valuable body of work

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