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Random music news for Thursday, May 12, 2022

May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Britney Spears, Coldplay, Diana Ross, Eurovision, Gary Numan, Madonna, NFTs, Oberheim, Podcasting, Radio, Sony, Tame Impala, Warner

Nothing to see here. Just a Russian oil oligarch dying from toad poison. Not suspicious at all. Meanwhile, nothing but

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Random music news for Saturday, April 23, 2022

April 23, 2022April 23, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Covid, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Drake, Gen Z, George Harrison, NFTs, Nirvana, Spotify

Hmm. Interesting. And so is music news for April 23, 2022. Think COVID is done? Hardly. Check out all these

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Random music news for Wednesday, March 9, 2022

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Drake, Ed Sheeran, Eminem, Grammys, Iron Maiden, Justin Bieber, Metal, NFTs, Plagiarism, Portugal, Spotify, Steve Vai, Streaming, The NME, Toyah Willcox

Some idiots have been going to see The Batman and releasing live bats during the screening. Please don’t do that.

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Watch Ozzy Osbourne try to explain his new NFT offerings called MutantBatz

February 20, 2022February 19, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cryptobatz, Mutantbatz, NFTs, Ozzy Osbourne

Wait: You can now cause an NFT to mutate if you bite another NFT? MutantBatz are available as of today

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Day two of the HitPiece saga: Major artists involved, but were any laws broken? 

February 3, 2022February 3, 2022 Amber Healy 0 Comments Apple, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Disney, DMCA, Hidden Pony Records, HitPiece, iTunes, Mike Renaud, NFTs, Nickelodeon, Rory Felton, Slaight Music, The Human Fly, Trademark

Within a calendar day of making a notoriously terrible first impression, HitPiece has zapped its website back to life, smug

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Random music news for Thursday, February 3, 2022

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Adele, Classical Music, Coachella, Evanescense, NFTs, Nirvana, Snoop Dogg, Sony, Spencer Eldon, Streaming, Troy Carter

Simon Cowell shouldn’t be allowed on e-bikes anymore. It’s not good for him. Over to music news for February 3,

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HitPiece accused of taking indie artists’ music, selling as NFT without permission

February 2, 2022February 2, 2022 Amber Healy 0 Comments Benchmarks, DMCA, HitPiece, Hotel Mira, Independent musicians, Infringement, NFTs, Robyn Raymond, Todd Farrell Jr., Women in Vinyl Podcast

Tuesday was a wild day for independent artists and not in a good way.  Details are still hazy but what

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Random music news for Wednesday, February 2, 2022

February 2, 2022February 2, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Aerosmith, Apple, BTS, Covid, Kanye West, Machine Gun Kelly, Marilyn Manson, Neil Young, NFTs, Spotify, YouTube

Groundhog Day. The science is in. Trust the meteorologists, not the rodent. Unless the rodent promises an early spring. Here’s

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On the fence about NFTs? You should probably watch this.

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments NFTs

I’ve been following the whole NFT situation since it became a thing a couple of years back. I’m hardly an

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Random music news for Wednesday, January 26, 2022

January 26, 2022January 26, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bill Murray, Brian May, BTS, Eric Clapton, Evan Rachel Wood, Gibson, Kid Rock, Marilyn Manson, Meat Loaf, NFTs, Paul McCartney

Death is good for business: Meat Loaf’s streams have spiked by 4,650% since he died. Album sales are also up

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Are NFTs the internet’s biggest scam? Discuss.

January 22, 2022January 21, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments NFTs, Scam

NFTs–non-fungible tokens–have been all the rage over the last couple of years. But is this whole thing built on sand?

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