Ongoing History Daily: The state of music piracy in 1897
Music piracy still exists, but it isn’t the problem that it used to be. But let me quote this: ‘Canadian pirates’ is what the music dealers call publishing houses across the line who
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Ongoing History Daily: The New York Times reviews The Ramones for the first time
Sometimes it’s rather amusing when mainstream media tries to describe and report on what’s happening in pop culture. Newspapers are much, much better at covering rock music than they used to be. Here’s
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Random music news for Friday, December 10, 2021
Back on Canadian soil. If you’re planning an international trip, budget for up to $600 per person for COVID testing coming and going. Insanity. (Your cost may vary depending on your destination.) Rant
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How did a NYT journalist end up collecting royalties from hundreds of musicians?
This is an interesting and heartbreaking story. The full thing runs about 20 minutes, but the lessons contained therein are imporant.
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Random music news for Tuesday, February 19, 2019
I rolled up the rim to win and all I got was four more weeks of winter. Now all I can offer is this round-up of music news for February 19, 2019. Weekly
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The Beastie Boys’ new book: How they wrote it.
The Sunday New York Times featured a cover story in the Arts & Entertainment section on the new Beastie Boys book. Ad-Rock and Mike D explain how this whole project came together. The
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Lorde Gets a Big Feature in the New York Times Magazine
Lorde was this weekend’s cover story in the New York Times Magazine. She’s just twenty years old and there are big, big expectations for her second album. No pressure, right? And I had
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This Will Start Fights: The NYT’s “25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going”
The New York Times Magazine is put to bed a week before it’s delivered with the Sunday paper, so this article now landing with a thud on doorsteps this morning has already been
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Random Music News for Monday, September 19, 2016
Back home after a trip to the Far East. My body is here but my soul is still in transit somewhere over the Aleutians. And now, the music news… Another You’re-Getting-Old Update: Guns
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New York Considers Fines, Jail Time for Using Bots
The New York State Assembly voted last week to make the use of ticket-buying bots a criminal offense. It’s illegal to use bots to buy large quantities of tickets, according to current laws,
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Bono’s New Op-Ed Piece in the NYT Above the Refugee Crisis in Africa
This appeared in the New York Times today. Words … I love words and phrases, maybe because I’m a songwriter. Absurdities are a personal favorite. Today I will always remember as the day
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