Random music news for Thursday, March 7, 2019
Go home, winter. You’re drunk. Time for a look at music news for March 7, 2019. The Prodigy’s Keith Flint was seen dining out with his personal trainer just hours before he died.
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Random music news for Monday, February 11, 2019
I still can’t get over this Jeff Bezos vs. The National Enquirer thing, especially when you distill it down to this brilliant New York Post headline: “Bezos Exposes Pecker.” Pithy, that. I wish
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More news and speculation about what might happen with Sunrise Records and HMV UK
The music retail world began a rebuild this week when Sunrise Records of Ancaster, Ontario, came to the rescue of HMV UK, which had slipped into bankruptcy for the second time. No purchase
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Canada’s Sunrise Records just made a last-second bid to buy HMV worldwide
HMV is in big trouble. The Canadian version is gone. HMV Hong Kong is dead. Stores have disappeared in a host of other countries. And now HMV UK is in administration (i.e. gone
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HMV may face worldwide doom as UK chain declares bankruptcy
HMV UK has gone bankrupt–“placed into administration,” in Brit-speak–for the second time, sparking genuine fear that the chain may be doomed. The company and its various divisions have a miserable couple of years
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Random music news for Wednesday, December 19, 2018
I saw some romaine lettuce on sale at my grocery store. so it must be safe. right? So can we stop pretending that it’s okay to male a caesar salad with kale? And
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Random music news for Wednesday, October 31, 2018
It’s the night disguised extortionist appear at my door demanding empty calories while their families look on in approval. What’s wrong with this picture? Ponder that as we go through music news for
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How have things changed for music in the last 20 years? Let’s count the ways.
[This was my Sunday column for GlobalNews.ca – AC] We can blame Bill Gates for destroying the traditional music industry. For close to a century, billions and billions were made selling pieces of
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What was it like to go music shopping at HMV in 1985? This.
Record stores were glorious places 30 years ago. While most of the space was dedicated to vinyl, it was under serious pressure from pre-recorded cassettes, sales of which exploded after the introduction of
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Random Music News for Thursday, November 30, 2017
Thirty-five years ago today, some record called Thriller was released. Anyone remember it? And now, some music news for November 30. Prince’s Minneapolis complex, Paisley Park, is looking for an alcohol license so
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So How is Sunrise Records Doing in the Wake of HMV
When HMV announced that it was kaput, Doug Putnam, the owner of the nine-location-strong Sunrise Records, stepped in to take over the leases of about 100 HMV stores. So how are things going?
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