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
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Random music news for Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Unless 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
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This documentary on vinyl and record stores will make you feel all misty
Wax 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
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Ongoing History Daily: The original record collectors, part 3
Here’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
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There’s a new 12-part doc on record shops coming
If 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
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Ongoing History Daily: The effect of streaming music
When 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”
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I really, really miss old-school stores. Let me count the ways.
[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
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Random music news for Thursday, July 1, 2021
Expecting 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
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Ongoing History Daily: The longbox, part 2
A 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,
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Ongoing History Daily: The longbox, part 1
Back 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
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This is the Thing, a comedy set in a Canadian record store is now available
There’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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