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Random music news for Friday, December 30, 2022

December 30, 2022December 30, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Apple CarPlay, Coolio, Cramps, Drake, Grateful Dead, Ian Tyson, Kanye West, Meek Mill, Spotify, Theophilus London, U2

“Ken Bulge” actually sounds like a good name for a band. And here’s a good run at music news for

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Tech 

What Twitter horsesh*t is being spread today?

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Death Watch, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Twitter

Elon Musk overpaid for Twitter and now he’s set fire to the US$44 billion that he spent on the company.

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Random music news for Monday, November 21, 2022

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beastie Boys, Bob Dylan, Colorado, Elon Musk, Florence + The Machine, Florence Welch, Kanye West, Kix, R Kelly, Snoop Dogg, Taylor Swift, Twitter

There are new metric prefixes to deal with really large and really small amounts. For example, we can now say

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Music News 

It’s been a few days since the last Kanye West Dumpster Fire Update, so here we go

November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments adidas, Antisemitism, Biopolar, Kanye West, White Lives Matter

Kanye West continues to make life difficult for himself. Here’s the latest. “I’m NOT bipolar” Kanye says he was “mentally

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Music News 

Need more news from the Kayne dumpster fire? Here you go. (Tuesday edition)

November 1, 2022November 1, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment adidas, Kanye West, The Gap

Kanye continues to make life difficult for himself. Here’s the latest. He’s being sued by his former business manager Kanye

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Music News 

A running list of all of Kayne’s craziness and resulting troubles (Updated as needed–and I’ve needed to do it a lot.)

October 28, 2022October 28, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments adidas, Antisemitic, Balenciaga, Donald Trump, Johnny Depp, Kanye West, Michael Rapaport, Quentin Tarantino

Kanye West has no one but himself to blame for his current predicaments thanks to his crazy and scary and

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Music Industry 

Apple Music raised prices on Monday. Spotify is probably next.

October 26, 2022October 26, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple Music, Daniel Ek, Kanye West, Spotify, Subscribers

On Monday, the cost of a subscription to Apple Music went from $9.99 to $10.99 in Canada. The price also

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WTF? 

Kanye has some interesting (and scary) fans supporting his crazy talk

October 24, 2022October 24, 2022 Alan Cross 4 Comments Antisemitism, Kanye West, Los Angeles

Kanye West keeps doubling down on his actions and comments which right-thinking people find both crazy and offensive. Everyone from

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Funny/Weird 

Kanye West is acting very weird again. This video kind of sums it up.

October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Antisemitic, Controversy, Kanye West, Late Show, Stephen Colbert

This clip starts as a montage of news reports about Kanye West’s recent behavior. Then it kicks in. (Via Sean)

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Music News 

Random music news for Tuesday, October 11, 2022

October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Abbey Road, Coolio, Joni Mitchell, Kanye West, Liam Gallagher, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, U2

Suck at pumpkin carving? Maybe you should take a look at this. Once you’re done, move over to music news

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Random music news for Thursday, October 6, 2022

October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Adam Jones, Concerts, Eddie Van Halen, James Bond, Kanye West, Kirk Hammett, Metal Guitar, Metallica, Snoop Dogg, Tool

Chernobyl frogs are now very, very goth. And probably radioactive, too. In music news for October 6, what have we

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