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Random music news for Friday, February 4, 2022

February 4, 2022February 4, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments AstroWorld, Beatles, Facebook, Get Back, Glastonbury, King Crimson, Korn, Munky, Music Piracy, Noel Gallagher, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Spotify, Travis Scott, Triumph

This guy got hacked by North Korea. So he took down their entire internet from his bedroom. Respect, dude. Here’s

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Music Industry 

Still stealing music? You’re part of a dying breed.

January 10, 2022January 11, 2022 Alan Cross 3 Comments EU, Music Piracy

Remember when music piracy threatened to derail the ender recorded music industry? Even after Napster was sued out of existence,

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Random music news for Friday, October 9, 2020

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple, Eddie Van Halen, Foo Fighters, John Lennon, Music Lessons, Music Piracy, Music Snobs

If he were still with us, John Lennon would have turned 80 today. If you’re a fan, you might want

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Random music news for Monday, September 21, 2020

September 21, 2020September 20, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Dark Side of the Moon, Dr. Dre, Fyre Festival, Iron Maiden, Metal, Music Piracy, Partridge Family, Radio, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, TikTok, Walmart, Wizard of Oz

Give an alligator helium to chance its voice? Why not? Now that’s out of the way, here’s music news for

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Random music news for Friday, June 26, 2020

June 26, 2020August 7, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Adobe, Allen Toussaint, CMW, Donald Trump, Grubman, Hip Hop, KaiOS, Lady Gaga, Miami Dolphins, Music Piracy, Ramones, Smart Speakers, Viberate

https://globalnews.ca/news/7102112/black-neutron-star-ligo-hole/The sun is setting on Uranus! (Sorry. Juvenile of me. But you can see a Uranus sunset here.) Okay, let

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Random music news for Thursday, February 27, 2020

February 27, 2020February 26, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bon Jovi, BTS, Corona Virus, Duffy, K-Pop, LSD, Music Piracy, Prince Harry, Spotify, Subwoofers

Another example of how LSD could actually be beneficial. Interesting. Now let’s trip on some music news for February 27,

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Random music news for Friday, November 1, 2019

November 1, 2019October 31, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments David Bowie, Katie Perry, Katy Perry, Music Piracy, Olivia Newton-John, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, SiriusXM, Smartphones, Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, U2

On this day in 1896, National Geographic published its first picture of a woman with bare breasts. Scandalous. Moving to

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Music Industry 

Streaming was supposed to kill off music piracy. It hasn’t quite worked out that way.

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music Piracy, Streaming

The first decade of the 21st century was awful for the music industry. Caught flat-footed by the power of the

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Random music news for Thursday, February 14, 2019

February 14, 2019February 13, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple, Avril Lavigne, Black Metal, Fortnite, Frank Zappa, Grammys, Hologram, Lars Ulrich, Lords of Chaos, Metallica, Music Piracy, Ozzy, Smart Watch, Spotify, TikTok

Valentine’s Day. Yuck. Sorry. I’ll focus on music news for February 14, 2019 instead. Ozzy is officially out of the

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Random music news for Friday, December 14, 2018

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Baby It's Cold Outside, Blu-Ray, Cannibal Corpse, China, Christmas Music, David Lee Roth, Deadpool, GG Allin, Hip-hop, Lean, Mormons, Music Piracy, MusicCounts, Noel Gallagher, Peter Murphy, Smart Speakers, TV, Van Halen, William Shatner, YouTube

Plutonium was isolated on this day in 1940. As for music news on December 14, 2018… Nominations for the 2019

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Music Industry 

The music industry might get a new warning symbol

November 28, 2018 Alan Cross 3 Comments Home Taping, Music Piracy, Parental Advisory, PMRC

The music industry has a history of creating universal warning symbols designed to keep the public from doing stuff of

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