There are an infinite number of reasons why I miss David Bowie. One is his intelligence, foresight, and prescience when it came to certain things. Here he is talking about the future impact
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] A couple of times a week, I’ll get an email that begins, “I’m looking for a song but I don’t know the name of
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Every once in a while I come across a story about a mystery song that no one can identify. All we have to go on is a audio fragment with no metadata. The
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This morning’s FYIMusicNews.ca newsletter came with an interesting graphic. It’s a Stats Canada look at how we consume various forms of media. The highlights:
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New data from Statistics Canada (via FYI Music News) shows how we Canadians tend to get our news. The information was gathered from a 2020 study called the General Social Survey on Social
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So rap music bad, guns good? All those poor kids and their teachers died in Uvalde, Texas, because of hip-hop lyrics, video games, and the internet? And the availability of guns had nothing
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I’d never heard of Bo Burnham before now, but given his musical summary of the internet, I’d going to have to investigate him. (Via Walter)
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Today we get so much of our music online. But twenty-five years ago, the Internet was still an unknown commodity populated by nerdy early adopters. In the mid-90s, it was considered to be
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If you were around when the Internet began to capture mainstream public attention (this would be 1995-ish), you’ll remember the proselytizing about how this was going to usher in a great new age
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Why does a salad seem taste better when someone else makes it? Just wondering. Meanwhile, here’s what I have for music news on August 28, 2019. The Tragically Hip are getting their own
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The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is the organization that assigns and oversees .ca domains. It has just released a report called “Canada’s Internet Factbook” which looks at the online activities and habits
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