Random music news for Tuesday, July 1, 2025
It’s the most “elbows up” Canada Day…ever! Enjoy. I’ve also got some music news for July 1, 2025. More music news? Go here. BONUS: On August 21, it’s George Costanza
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Random music news for Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Today, spare a thought for the world’s saddest dolphin. Moving on to music news for November 26, 2024… More music news? Go here. BONUS: It’s Tuesday. Tuesdays suck. Maybe you
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Yes, the Canadian music industry wants a fee on every smartphone sold in this country
The iPod Tax is back, except that the Canadian music industry wants a fee slapped on all smartphones because we all copy our music to them. (Here’s my backgrounder on
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Random music news for Monday, April 9, 2018
It’s Monday and your view of the world probably isn’t at its most cheery. Take a look at this site that predicts what would happen if a nuclear bomb went
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This trailer is an early ancestor of your smartphone. It weighed 20 tons and required a refrigeration unit.
Your smartphone is a marvelous piece of technology, a lot of computing power jammed into something you can put in your pocket. Now rewind to the early days of computer
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A Review of Google’s Pixel 2 Smartphone
With the iPhone X set to go up for pre-order at 3:01 AM tomorrow morning (October 27), a lot of insane early adopters (full disclosure: I am one) will be
Read MoreRandom Music News for Monday, October 9, 2017
Happy Thanksgiving to all! (Yes, America, we do things differently up here.) And now the music news for October 9. After three legs of the Not in This LIfetime tour,
Read MoreRandom Music News for Saturday, July 8, 2017
Seventy years ago, something crashed at Roswell, New Mexico. Probably a stupid grey. And now, the music news for July 8. Dave Grohl is “a big bully.” Wait–what? Madonna is
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Not Everyone Has a Smartphone Yet
Although we long passed the tipping point where most people own some kind of smartphone, there are still some holdouts. My dad, for example. I can’t imagine him giving up
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Do We Really Need This? IKEA Tableware for Your Smartphone
When you’re having dinner with family and friends, PUT THE DOWN THE GODDAMN PHONE. Please, You can do without the smartphone stimulation for a few minutes. Or maybe not. That’s
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Marshall Amplifiers Now Have a Smartphone. Wait–What?
Call it a smartphone that goes up to 11–or something like that. Patrick Charles reports from sister website, Geeks and Beats: Let’s face it: smartphones are pretty much all the
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