[Works and photos by Ross MacDonald. – AC] Canadian alt-rockers Our Lady Peace made on stop on their cross-country at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre on a rainy Tuesday evening. OLP’s tour is touted
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All the members of ABBA are now in their 70s and have no intention of ever performing again. And now they don’t have to because they’ve created ABBA Voyage, an avatar/hologram performance built
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[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Everything I know about holograms I learned from either Star Wars or Star Trek. Princess Leia’s glitchy SOS to Obi-Wan Kenobi projected by R2D2 to
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Happy Thanksgiving! (To American readers, yes, we have Thanksgiving, too. It’s just that we do it early and don’t make quite as big a deal of it as you do.) There is, however,
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Wanna buy a triceratops? Good news! Now some music news for September 3, 2021. At least four anti-vaxx American conservative talk show hosts (some of whom believed that COVID was a hoax) have
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Olympics! Right. Probably should start watching, huh? But only after music news for July 24, 2021. To help get the US concert industry back on its feet, Live Nation is offering $20-all-in concert
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Like I just said, there’s always someone out there predicting the death of rock. Just like the End-of-the-Worlders who are constantly saying the Rapture is just around the corner, those who claim to
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The first day of summer. Some parts of Canada are still waiting for spring. This is what’s making music news for June 21, 2019. Here are my weekly music picks for GlobalNews.ca. A
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There’s a tech twist to this week’s survey question. This past Sunday (November 4), there was a concert at the Sony Centre in Toronto starring Roy Orbison. Yes, the man has been dead
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Here’s another great German word that has no English equivalent: kummerspeck. It literally means “grief bacon” and describes how you compulsively overeat when you’re feeling angry or sad. And now, music news for
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Bonnie and Clyde were finally whacked by police on this day in 1934. And in some less-violent music news for May 23, 2018… And the singers on the official World Cup song will
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