Random music news for Friday, December 21, 2018
Here’s what’s making music news on the solstice: December 21, 2018. Jacob Hoggard of Hedley finally has a date set for his sexual assault case. It’ll be in July. Spotify says that it
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Random music news for Friday, December 14, 2018
Plutonium was isolated on this day in 1940. As for music news on December 14, 2018… Nominations for the 2019 Juno Awards will be released January 29. Peter Murphy–yes, the Goth god–was thrown
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Last full day in Thailand. Then it’s a 27-hour ride home including an eight-hour layover in Seoul. I think I’m gonna try me one of those capsule hotels. Meanwhile, here’s some music news
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Yesterday was the 80th birthday of the synthesizing of LSD. Insert quip about the drug’s long, strange trip [here]. As for music news on November 17. 2018… This is an interesting theory on
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, November 14, 2018
On this day in 1952, The New Musical Express published the first-ever UK singles chart. Fast-forwarding to November 14, 2018, here’s what’s making music news. Here’s a touching interview with Freddie Mercury’s mom.
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So how are smart speakers doing in Canada?
We’ve heard plenty of data from the US and other countries about how quickly consumers are adopting smart speakers. But what about in Canada? According to a new study by the Consumer Technology
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Now that we’re beyond Halloween, we have to talk about Christmas music and the role smart speakers are going to play this year.
Now that Halloween is behind us, it all about Christmas. This is the weekend when dozens (hundreds?) of radio stations across North America will flip to all-Christmas all the time for the next
Read MoreRandom music news for Thursday, November 1, 2018
The sound you heard at midnight was a bunch of radio stations flipping to an all-Christmas format for the rest of the year. Be prepared to hear “All I Want for Christmas is
Read MoreRandom music news for Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Music news for All Hallow’s Eve Eve: October 30, 2018. Weekly Canadian music sales and streams vs. this point last year: Total albums, -21.2%; digital albums, -19.6%; physical albums, -22.1%; CDs, -25.8%; vinyl
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Smart speakers are hot and getting hotter. Here are the latest figures.
The latest sales data has the Google Home Mini as the best-selling smart speaker of Q2 in 2018, accounting for 20% of the 11.7 million units of all smart speakers were shipped. Next up
Read MoreRandom music news for Tuesday, September 11, 2018
September 11 is always a difficult date. It’s even more difficult when it falls on a Tuesday, just like it did back in 2001. Here’s what’s making music news. So does this mean
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