10 mind-blowing facts about music: 2025 edition (*abbreviated)
Confession: I am a hoarder. My entire existence is built on finding interesting and obscure facts about music. It really is a 24-7 thing. Most of what I find ends
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 968: 60 mind-blowing things about music in 60 minutes, 2022 edition
It’s that time again. Another year is nearly at an end and once again we’ve been subjected to the whims of the universe and human stupidity and capriciousness. It got
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25 mind-bending pieces of music trivia you can use to amaze your friends with your brilliance
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] For the last number of decades, I’ve made a career out of sourcing strange and wonderful facts about the world of
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Is it really almost the end of 2021? If I’m honest, it’s all been a blur, almost like 2020–except with vaccines. I’ve spent almost two years working exclusively out of
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I have completed the annual office cleanup. This is the time of the year when I go through all the scraps of paper, notepad scribbles, Post-It notes, computer files, and
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Trivia Time: 35 Crazy Facts About Music
[I gave Dorothy the Intern an assignment: Find me at least twenty-five weird facts about music. She came back with these thirty-four. How shall we grade her? -AC] Mick Jagger
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The Ongoing History of New Music, Episode 771: 60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music in 60 Minutes
My home office is a mess. Books, press releases, bios, CDs, vinyl, newspaper clipping, magazines–debris resulting from all the researching and writing I do on a daily basis. Most of
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Come to the Toronto Hard Rock Cafe November 15 for a Music Trivia Throwdown
[Note: I’ll be there. Our team will not be denied! – AC] Are you a music trivia extraordinaire? On November 15 at the Hard Rock Café in Toronto, Universal Music
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Attention Music Writers: Details on a Paying Gig
An online music site is looking for music writers who would be willing to research and assemble cool facts about the history of a specific classic alternative rock, pop, classic rock
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