Cool short film: The history of headphones
Everyone has at least one set of headphones or earbuds around the house. Where did that technology come from? Reader Mark forward this video history.
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Photos and a review Of Monsters and Men in Toronto (finally!)
[Ross MacDonald was there. Again. – AC] Finally. After six long years, and then a false start on 28 October, Icelandic indie rockers Of Monsters And Men finally gave their
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The Neon Legacy of Miami Vice: Music, Style, and TV History
Before prestige TV, before streaming dominance, there was a cop show that didn’t just tell stories—it looked like a music video and sounded like an album. This is the story
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Ongoing History Daily: A cool history of magnetic audio tape, part 1
Before the 1930s, the only real way to capture music for playback later was on either a rotating cylinder or a rotating disc. The principle was the same: the mechanical
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What is the future of radio in cars? It’s now being written.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Listening to the radio in the car is almost as old as the automobile itself. The very first time anyone demonstrated
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Backstage passes: How they work.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] One of the most frequently asked questions I get is, “How can I get a backstage pass to [insert name of artist here]?”
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Ottawa is getting a new much-needed midsized concert venue in HISTORY
[Ottawa correspondent Ross MacDonald was there for the announcement. – AC] Ottawa has been frequently tagged as a sleepy government town, or the city that fun forgot. But since being
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Photos of Death from Above 1979’s big anniversary show in Toronto
Photographer Alex Lupol was at History in Toronto on October 4 to cover Death from Above 1979’s show celebrating the 20th anniversary of the album You’re a Woman, I’m a
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The history of rock music in Vancouver
West Coast rock in North America is its own little thing, a musical melting pot that’s physically separated from the rest of the continent by the Rocky Mountains. Historically, this
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The History of the 2010s, part 2
[Another month or so and we start a brand new season of Ongoing History shows. Hang in there. – AC] Traditional wisdom says that the recorded music industry is dominated
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This could be the weirdest rock’n’roll origin story ever
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC[ I promise that by the end of this story you will learn will shake your head–maybe at the history of it
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