Random Music News for Thursday, October 15, 2015
Is this Canadian election campaign over yet? Jeebus… In music news, this is what I’ve got today. Wait: You mean Justin Bieber has been banned in the Middle East? Flavor Flav has pleaded
Read MoreIs this Canadian election campaign over yet? Jeebus… In music news, this is what I’ve got today. Wait: You mean Justin Bieber has been banned in the Middle East? Flavor Flav has pleaded
Read MoreWho? Max Martin? You may not know this Swede’s name, but I guarantee you know his work. Get caught up with this article in The New Yorker. Among the stranger aspects of recent
Read MoreMuch of the mainstream pop we hear today comes from just a couple of songwriters. The Atlantic explains. The biggest pop star in America today is a man named Karl Martin Sandberg. The
Read MoreWell, this explains a lot. From Slate: The grammatical bar for pop lyrics is plenty low, but some effort, at least, is required to clear it. And while we are fairly forgiving when
Read MoreCanada does a pretty good job of punching above its weight when it comes to exporting music to the rest of the world. A series of cultural protectionist measures (CanCon, FACTOR, VideoFACT, etc.
Read MoreI had some idea, but I didn’t realize the full extent of this secret. Wow.
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