When we learned about horrible/illegal/immoral activities perpetrated by a favourite artist, what’s the appropriate reaction? Do we erase them from our lives or do we make an effect to separate the music from
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My summer speaker tour has reached Edmonton. If you want to join me tonight, go here. Canadian music sales and stream stats vs. this time last year: Total album sales, -24.9%; CDs, -30.3%;
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Remember the NHL players’ strike of 2005-2006? On this day in 2005, the league canceled the rest of the season and the playoffs. It was bad. This is what I have for a
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More than halfway through February. And after the weather week much of North America had, that’s good news. Here’s your roundup music news for February 15, 2019. Another R Kelly sex tape has
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Had he lived, Tupac would be 57 today. And in other music news for June 16, 2018… Here are my weekly music picks for GlobalNews.ca. Ozzy Osborne to serve 30 years for a
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Happy 45th birthday, Bangladesh! And now, the music news. What do you think of about a triple bill of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden? At least at couple of people are
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You’ve no doubt heard by now that Ryan Adams released a track-by-track cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989. In the process, songs like “Shake It Off” underwent an interesting metamorphosis. Having listened to the
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Is it just me or are the cups at Starbucks getting thinner and flimsier? On to music news… In “Dave Grohl is Awesome” news, he dedicated a song to a little girl in
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The world of music is full of weirdness. Consider these two stories. ITEM 1: Father John Misty had recorded a series of Taylor Swift covers and posted them online, calling the tracks “My reinterpretation
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All kinds of new music comes out today–it is Friday, of course, the day when the world spews out all its new releases–so let’s take a listen to a few of them shall
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I can’t believe how much baseball matters to me now. I haven’t been this wrapped up in MLB since 1993. But we’re here for music news, right? Adele for Glastonbury in 2016? Now
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