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Random music news for Thursday, December 9, 2021

December 9, 2021December 9, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Airplay Royalties, Brian May, Daft Punk, Metaverse, Music Blogs, Neil Young, NFTs, Podcasts, Radio, Slash, Song Catalogues

Flying back to Toronto today. Will I get tested for COVID even though I’m double-vaxxed and have a valid PCR

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Random music news for Wednesday, September 3, 2020

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Akon, BLM, Charts, Creed, Elvis, Headphones, Kardinal Offishall, Music Blogs, Radio, Sinead O'Connor, Smash Mouth, Sturgis, Taylor Swift, Toots and the Maytalls, Video Games

Hear about the Canadian inventor who sued the entire computer industry for US$350 billion? Yeah, he lost. Here’s what we

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Random music news for Tuesday, June 4, 2019

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments #MeToo, Airpods, CargoJet, Cell Phones, Drake, FM Chips, Music Blogs, Russell Simmons, Stream Ripping, Tom Petty

This is what thinking looks like. Cool! Grow more neurons by reading through music news for Tuesday, June 4, 2019.

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Random music news for Thursday, January 24, 2019

January 24, 2019January 23, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1968, Adele, Dolby, Drugs, Ed Sheeran, Infotainment Systems, KISS, MQA, Music Blogs, Nile Rodgers, Vinyl

Off to Nashville today for a chat with Metallica. Kirk Hammett and I will inevitably have a conversation on our

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Streaming playlists have already destroyed mixtapes and burned CDs. Are music blogs next?

April 28, 2018April 27, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music Blogs, Playlists, Streaming

OLD WAY: Recording mixtapes on cassette/burning custom CD-Rs/dragging and dropping digital files into playlists on iTunes. NEW WAY: Streaming playlists,

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And the Most Blogged-About Artist of 2014 Is…

December 11, 2014December 10, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Hype Machine, Music Blogs

Hype Machine watches SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Official.fm, and MP3 embeds on 840 blogs. From that data, they can say that the most

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