[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] There’s a scene in the biopic Creation Stories where Ewan Brenner, channelling Creation Records founder Alan McGee in a scene with his therapist, rants about the
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[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca this week. – AC] Inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s book, Cinema Speculation, I resolved to spend 2023 going deep into the movies of the late 1960s and through the
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Shazam, the magical Apple-owned app that can identify a song by listening to it, can be an interesting source of data. What songs are people Shazaming the most? And how do things differ
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] One of the knocks against the Foo Fighters has been that they’re not dangerous or consumed with drama. But that’s been very much by
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Shazam, the Apple-owned app that magically identifies songs by listening to them, is used by people all over the world when they chance upon an unfamiliar song. The theory is that by analyzing
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Our credit cards are going vertical. That may take an adjustment. Here’s music news for January 4, 2022. Musicians we lost in 2021, part 1. Musicians we lost in 2021, part 2. More
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Like you, Omicron has bummed me out. Just as we thought things were getting better, COVID-19 wiggles its spikes into a new configuration and suddenly December 2021 felt
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Once upon a time, it was comparatively easy to make predictions about where music was headed, thanks to decades-long cyclical flips of rock and
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Let’s be very, very clear about what the Grammys are. First and foremost, they’re a prime time network TV show designed to grab as many eyeballs as possible. It’s about TV ratings first,
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The year is but 14 days old, so with more than 350 days to go, let’s ask this question: If you could wish/hope/dream for one musical thing in 2019, what would it be?
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Off to Las Vegas for CES. Never been before. This should be weird, Meanwhile, here’s some music news for January 5, 2019. Tragically Hip fans should check out this edition of the Hipstories
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