One of the byproducts of streaming (and iTunes’ deconstruction of albums before that) is that we’ve organized our listening by playlists, whether we make them ourselves or we choose something curated. Question: Is
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[Another contribution from Elisa F.G. – AC] The Pet Boomers? Generation Fur? Gen. F? What would you call all the people that became pet owners during (and due to) the pandemic? For the
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Raise your hand if you start to feel a little stressed Sunday afternoon or evening about the work waiting for you Monday morning. The phenomena that is the Sunday scaries is, sadly, very
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We all turn to music when we need a little mental health pick-me-up. But what if there was a way to turbocharge that into some kind of effective therapy. There’s now an app
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2022As the kids say, I was today years old when I learned this about Google’s “no internet” page. And here’s what I learned about music news for September 26, 2022. Kanye says he
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New research into pain management by boffins at Queen Mary University and University College Dublin suggests that music can be used to control pain. But it’s not just what music we listen to.
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This is why we can’t have nice things. We can have music news for May 28, 2022, though. The killer in the Ulvade school massacre blasted music while he went on his rampage.
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I’m going to be hosting an online music trivia contest for charity in a couple of weeks. Wanna play? Get tickets here. Think about it as you run through music news for April
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Before friends arrived for dinner last week, the household was in a tizzy. My wife was agonizing over the correct preparation of a lovely
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Does anyone else find it strange that news networks will show the uncut carnage from Ukraine but if there’s any swearing in the clip they’ll bleep that out? So a “fuck” or “shit”
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Sometimes when you have to cram for something–school, work, some kind of special project–it helps if you have some music on in the background. Spotify has plenty of playlists for that. But what
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