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Random music news for Thursday, April 21, 2022

April 21, 2022April 21, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Blur, Covid, Listerine, Mask Mandates, Record Store Day, Rush, Touring

As you read this, I’m somewhere between Singapore and Toronto connecting through Doha. I have no idea what time it

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Random music news for Monday, February 21, 2022

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Digital Burnout, Record Store Day

Don’t do this. At least not the first part. But please do check out music news for February 21, 2022.

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The full list for Record Store Day 2022 is out

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2022, Record Store Day

In a sure sign of spring, the organizers of Record Store Day have issued the full list of releases that

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Music Industry 

There’s a new 12-part doc on record shops coming

January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Documentary, Record Shops, Record Store Day, Record Stores, UK

If you’re the kind of person who loves to root around in record shops, a new 12-part documentary entitled Behind

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The vinyl shortage is about to get worse. Blame Adele.

November 4, 2021November 5, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Adele, Record Store Day, Records, Vinyl

For the last several months, vinyl records have spiked in price as supply chain shortages get worse. Everything has been

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Random music news for Thursday, September 16, 2021

September 16, 2021September 15, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alanis Morissette, Black Friday, Coldplay, Deep Fake, Drake, Faith No More, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, Mike Patton, Nicki Minaj, Pink Floyd, Record Store Day, Sex Pistols, Shazam, Vinyl

Maybe this is my problem. Anyone got some good bacteria? Moving to music news for September 16, 2021… There will

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 26 July 2021

July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments MRC Data, Music sales, Record Store Day, Streaming

MRC Data dropped their weekly stats update Monday evening. How did the Canadian recorded music industry do in the week

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 21 June 2021

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 Alan Cross 2 Comments Album sales, Canada, Record Store Day, Streaming, Vinyl Sales

I was expecting more this week, if I’m honest. With anecdotes of long lines and busy stores for Record Store

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Introducing The Dee Gees. Wait–isn’t that actually the Foo Fighters in disco disguise?

June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Dave Grohl, Dee Gees, Foo Fighters, Parody, Record Store Day

If you dig back into The Ongoing History of New Music archives, you’ll find an episode first broadcast on April

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Record Store Day 2021, Part 1: June 12, 2021

June 12, 2021June 11, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2021, June 12, Record Store Day

In the Before Times, Record Store Day was held on the third Saturday of April. COVID screwed that up with

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Random music news for Wednesday, June 9, 2021

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Auction, Cats, Juliens, Kid Rock, Munsters, Music Venues, Nick Cave, Post Malone, R Kelly, Record Store Day, Rob Zombie, Vinyl

That was some internet outage yesterday, huh? When Amazon goes down, you know it was bad. We’re okay now, so

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