How bad will Trump tariffs be for music? Let us count the ways.
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Now that the stragglers are waking up to the fact that a tariff is a tax on the consumer (the importing company pays the tariff
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The new line of Barbies focuses on women in music–including managers.
Barbie has always been career minded. Mattel’s latest line of Barbie dolls “celebrate the world of music with a music-loving careers set featuring two industry roles together.” Yes, there’s the Barbie music star
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What impact does TikTok have on music? TikTok blows its own horn.
We must be careful when a company issues a report that touts how well it is doing in a specific area. In this case, it’s a study of music on TikTok conducted by…TikTok.
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You’re right: Music isn’t what it used to be. This is according to science.
Have you ever said to yourself “Today’s music sucks. It was so much better back in the day.” Turns out you may be right–and now you have science to back things up. According
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Ongoing History Daily: Music can change how we remember the past
We’ve all experienced situations when hearing a song transports us back to when we first heard it or something we were doing when the song came on. A study by Yiren Ren, a
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Oscar nominations came out this morning. The Bob Dylan biopic did very well
The Academy Awards are pushing ahead despite the chaos of the LA wildfires. The nominations were announced this morning (a full list here) but let’s concentrate on the music-related categories. The Bob Dylan
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Some mind-blowing facts about music from 2024
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] My home office sometimes looks as if a Category 5 hurricane swept through. There are piles of magazines, teetering towers of books, records and
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Now that Trump is going to be president again, what now for music?
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] The first thing I thought when I awoke Wednesday morning was that there’s now an SNL Curse. Any female U.S. presidential candidate — even
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Music in the operating room
We’ve all seen the TV shows and heard the stories about how music in the operating room makes for better and safer operations. Surgeons, we are told, are more focused on the tasks
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Someone has come up with a cloaking device to fight bogus AI music. It’s pretty cool.
There’s an unfathomable amount of music theft happening online. Pirates are tweaking recordings from other (including well-known) artists ever-so-slightly and then registering the songs as their own, siphoning royalties away from the rightful
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Going for surgery? Prep with the right music for when it’s all over.
Another study says that the right music may help people not only recover more quickly from surgery but also help reduce pain–or at least the reception of it. Researchers at California Northstate University
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