Which kind of music makes people more road rage-y?
Think about the last time you were angered while driving. Whether someone made you mad while you were driving, or you got behind the wheel while heated, it doesn’t matter.
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What metal songs should you listen to for your mental health?
A new study by a health and wellness sign called Tebra called “Healing Harhomie” (via Loudwire) sought to find out which songs appear the most on playlists that focus on
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Random music news for Saturday, April 13, 2024
Who’s buying shares of Donald Trump’s dog of a media company? No one seems to know. Meanwhile, over in reality, here’s what’s happening with music news for April 13, 2024.
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Today is one of the least-productive days of the year, so let’s goof off with this dance music game
Unless you’re in retail, essential services, or the restaurant game, you’re probably not working very hard today–if you bothered to even go into work at all. I mean, it’s Friday.
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There’s been a study of which bands and song lyrics are used for captions on social media
Are you an addicted TikToker? If you are, thanks for taking some time away from scrolling through videos for these important study results. A new study that surveyed 1,004 Americans
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Is it time to give up on music genres? Hear me out.
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] If you’re of a certain vintage, you’ll remember how inflexibly tribal music fans used to be. If you were, say, an alternative
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 990: The History of the 2010s, Part 3
It must have been so easy to write about rock back in the 1950s. Well, comparatively easy to today, I mean. Everything was so new that that’s all you had
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Study buddy tip: Don’t listen to metal if you want better grades
There have been many, many studies showing that listening to metal can be good for your mental and physical health. But when it comes to the right music when you’re
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What kind of podcasts do you listen to? Someone did a survey.
Podcasting is still in growth mode as more people get into on-demand listening. But what are we listening to? Edison Research conducted a survey to determine the most popular genres
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Which genres did best under COVID quarantine? (Hint: A Canadian rock band was a global success)
It’s been a long, long time since there’s been anything normal about how music has been made, performed, recorded, and consumed. Chances are that we’ll feel the effects of COVID
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[More summer encores. New shows begin the weekend after Labour Day. Rest assured, though, I’m already working on them, too. -AC] Humans have already tried to make sense of the
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