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Music History 

Love conspiracies? Here are a few of the better ones involving music

May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Conspiracies, Conspiracy, John Lennon, KGB, Punk

If you’ve been keeping up with world weirdness, you may have heard the recent theory that Mark David Chapman did

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Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The great KGB punk conspiracy

May 27, 2022May 27, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Conspiracy, KGB, Punk Rock, Scorpions, Wind of Change

You may be aware of a podcast that came out in the spring of 2020 that sought to get to

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Music History 

Did the KGB use punk rock to try to destabilize the West? Let’s look at this conspiracy theory.

April 26, 2021April 25, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beatles, Clash, Crass, KGB, Margarget Thatcher, Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, Sex Pistols

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Soft power — the use of culture to influence the other

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Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The great KGB punk conspiracy

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments CIA, Clash, Conspiracy, Crass, KGB, Scorpions, Sex Pistols

[We’re taking a one-week pause for a COVID mental health break. But new shows will resume again next week. -AC]

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Ongoing History of New Music 

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 895: The great KGB punk conspiracy

October 16, 2020April 22, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Conspiracy, KGB, Punk

You may be aware of a podcast that came out in the spring of 2020 that sought to get to

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Music News 

Random Music News for Thursday, August 17, 2017

August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bon Jovi, Classical Music, Dr. Luke, Elephants, Elvis, Kesha, KGB, Lady Gaga, Manchester, PETA, Spotify, Star Trek, Synesthesia, Translation, Wu-Tang Clan

Dammit, Microsoft! You updated Skype and now I have to update a bunch of other stuff to make it work

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Podcast 

Geeks&Beats Podcast, Episode 111: At the Right Hand of the Donald

June 24, 2015December 18, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Apple Music, Automatic, autonomous cars, Beats by Dr. Dre, Big Bang Theory, Connected Car, Earplugs, Glastonbury Festival, Isaac Asimov, Jim Parsons, KGB, Nissan Murano, Punk, RHA, Spotify, Taylor Swift, Three Laws of Robotics

Warning: There is not a single conversation thread in this week’s show that takes us into an orbit around. We will

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Music History 

Ex-KGB Agent: “We Financed UK Punk to Destabilize the West”

June 18, 2015June 17, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cold War, Conspiracy, KGB

As tinfoil hat conspiracies go, this is a good one. Roland points us to this article at LouderThanWar: Not so

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Music History 

How a Punk Band Nearly Started World War III

January 4, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Crass, KGB, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, World War III

Vice has a great story about Crass, probably the most uncompromising punk band that ever existed. Official government documents have

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