Random music news for Friday, May 26, 2023
We sent an “alien radio message” from Mars to Earth on Wednesday. Think of it as a First Contact dress rehearsal. Meanwhile, in music news for May 26, 2023… BONUS: What if Trent
Read MoreWe sent an “alien radio message” from Mars to Earth on Wednesday. Think of it as a First Contact dress rehearsal. Meanwhile, in music news for May 26, 2023… BONUS: What if Trent
Read MoreUnless you’re in somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere, you’re happy to see January done for another year. I know I am. Now if we could just skip right to mid-March, all would be
Read MoreWax Tailor, a French hip hop artist on tour in the US, decided to make a documentary on independent record stores across the country. Listen, it’s Tuesday, the worst day of the workweek
Read MoreHere’s one more story about how women, not men, were the original record collectors when recorded music first became available more than a hundred years ago. Women of the house took on the
Read MoreIf you’re the kind of person who loves to root around in record shops, a new 12-part documentary entitled Behind the Counter is about to debut in the UK. It tours through stores
Read MoreWhen streaming started to take off more than a decade ago, skeptics said it would never work. After more than a century of buying records, tapes, and CDs, who wanted to just “rent”
Read More[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] One night while trying something other than endlessly doomscrolling for stories about Donald Trump, climate change, and the pandemic, I chanced upon an ad for
Read MoreExpecting to die one day? Go to Mars! On that cheery note, here’s just news for July 1, 2021. Is this the world’s greatest record store? Maybe. (Via Mark) Are teenage girls in
Read MoreA major complaint of record stores in the early 80s was the cost of installing new shelving to display this new thing called the “compact disc.” After investing in displays for LPs, 45s,
Read MoreBack in the early 80s, the recorded music industry was suffering. The disco bubble had burst. Record sales were in free-fall for the first time since the 1930s. Plus there was a terrible
Read MoreThere’s something about the environment of a record store that makes it a natural setting for a comedy. This is the Thing is a new series on Bell Fibre TV1 that follows Mike
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