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Holograms

Concerts Music News Tech 

This summer’s Our Lady Peace tour will take in-concert holograms to a whole new level

May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concerts, Futurism, Holograms, Our Lady Peace, Raine Maida, Ray Kurzweil

[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Everything I know about holograms I learned from either Star Wars or

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Random music news for Monday, October 11, 2021

October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Aaron Lewis, Album Artwork, Covid, Holograms, Kanye, Michael Cohen, R Kelly, Radiohead, Staind, Tea Party

Happy Thanksgiving! (To American readers, yes, we have Thanksgiving, too. It’s just that we do it early and don’t make

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Random music news for Friday, September 3, 2021

September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments ABBA, Amy Winehouse, Anti-vax, Britney Spears, Covid, David Crosby, David Lee Roth, Holograms, Iceland Airwaves, Kanye, Lionel Richie, MIcrophones, Neil Young, Radio, Ronnie James Dio, Soundtracks, YouTube Music

Wanna buy a triceratops? Good news! Now some music news for September 3, 2021. At least four anti-vaxx American conservative

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Random music news for Saturday, July 24, 2021

July 24, 2021July 23, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alexa, Amazon, Anthony Kiedis, Apple, Artwork, Chris Martin, Concerts, Gen Z, Holograms, Live Nation, Punk, Rolling Stones, Shirley Manson, Spatial Audio, Whitney Houston

Olympics! Right. Probably should start watching, huh? But only after music news for July 24, 2021. To help get the

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Music History 

Prediction: Rock’n’Roll will be dead by 2060. The only thing that will preserve it is holograms.

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment Holograms, Rock

Like I just said, there’s always someone out there predicting the death of rock. Just like the End-of-the-Worlders who are

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Random music news for Friday, June 21, 2019

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Holograms, Motorhead, Ozzy

The first day of summer. Some parts of Canada are still waiting for spring. This is what’s making music news

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Tech 

Weekly survey: Would you go see a gig starring at hologram? And if so, who would it have to be?

November 5, 2018 Alan Cross 5 Comments Holograms, Roy Orbison

There’s a tech twist to this week’s survey question. This past Sunday (November 4), there was a concert at the

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Music News 

Random music news for Friday, October 26, 2018

October 26, 2018October 26, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Apple, Auschwitz, Bon Jovi, Christmas Music, Freddie Mercury, Google, Holograms, Justin Beiber, Pokémon, Richard Ashcroft, Sinead O'Connor, SiriusXM, Spotify

Here’s another great German word that has no English equivalent: kummerspeck. It literally means “grief bacon” and describes how you

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Random music news for Wednesday, May 23, 2018

May 23, 2018May 22, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bon Jovi, Donald Trump, Fyre Festival, Holograms, Life of Agony, R. Kelly, Will Smith, World Cup

Bonnie and Clyde were finally whacked by police on this day in 1934. And in some less-violent music news for

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Random Music News for Saturday, September 23, 2017

September 23, 2017September 22, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments ABBA, Apple, Bassboss, Doctumentaries, FM Chip, Frank Zappa, Halloween, Holograms, iPhone 8, Irish Rap, Mennonites, Michael Jackson, Morris Dancing, Never Mind the Bollocks, Nickelback, Saturday Night Fever, Sex Pistols, Village Voice

According to this guy, the world is supposed to end today. Damn Nibiru. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t any

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Random Music News for Tuesday, September 19, 2017

September 19, 2017September 18, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments ABBA, Alexa, Bono, Bose, David Bowie, Holograms, iOS, Music sales, Music Supervision, Podcasts, Prince, Radio, Sonos, Spotify, U2, Waze

Anyone else miss Cassini? Now, some music news for September 19, 2017. Some U2 fans are proposing that September 25

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