January is always a time for predictions about the year ahead. MIDiA is a music industry research company that takes data very seriously. After some careful analysis, they have issued their Sounds of
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] The last 12 months in music were eventful, to say the least. We saw the against-all-odds successful Oasis reunion, the Sean Combs trial, and, of course, the rise
Read MoreWhere is Planet X? It’s running out of places to hide. Now what we’re done with astronomy, let’s do music news for January 14, 2025. BONUS: So true.
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] With a fresh year before us, ’tis the season to look ahead at what things we may look forward to over the next 12
Read MoreThis year was big for dating apps, yet they still don’t have things figured out. If you use such an app, read this. Then go on to music news for December 27, 2024.
Read MoreApple owns Shazam, the magical app that “listens” to music that you want to identify. Each time you Shazam something, you’re generating data for the app and for Apple. Sometimes we get to
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. Meet me back here in a year to see how well I did. – AC] As we get closer to the one-quarter mark of the 21st
Read MoreChess is supposed to be a game of honour, but it can apparently also include beads and pooping in bathtubs. Music news for December 28, 2023, has much better standards. More music news?
Read More[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
Read More[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
Read MoreShazam, 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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