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Random music news for Friday, January 13, 2023

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment AI, Chainsmokers, Demi Lovato, Harry Styles, Merch, Mowtown, Remixing, Sony, Spotify, Turntable, Walkman

Need a head transplant? Good news! And there’s more good news (I think) with music news for January 13, 2023.

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Music News 

Random music news for Friday, January 6, 2023

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Deezer, Las Vegas, MSG Sphere, Ozzy, Rammstein, School of Rock, Sony

I’ve been thinking about getting a bird feeder for the backyard. Maybe this one? Might be as entertaining as music

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Tech 

Amazon Music wants to improve the listening experience in the car

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Amazon Music, Car Audio, CES, Fraunhofer, MPEG-H, Sony

CES, the world’s biggest consumer electronics show in the world, has taken over Las Vegas again. New TVs seem to

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40 years ago today–October 1, 1982–the first CD went on sale. Here’s an oral history of how it happened.

October 1, 2022October 4, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments CD, Compact Disc, Philips, Sony

The introduction of the compact disc brought the music industry out of a terrible post-disco recession but also created a

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Music History Tech 

Here’s a 40th birthday salute to the compact disc

August 22, 2022August 22, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 40th Anniversary, ABBA, Billy Joel, Compact Disc, Philips, Sony

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] After more than a decade of work, building on an idea

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Music History 

Forty years ago this week, the first commercial-produced CD was made

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments ABBA, CDs, Compact Disc, Philips, Sony, The Visitor

It was on August 17, 1982, when the first commercially-available compact disc rolled out of the Philips factory in Germany.

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Music News 

Random music news for Monday, July 4, 2022

July 4, 2022July 3, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, Britney Spears, Geddy Lee, Holocaust, Metaverse, Michael Jackson, Mike Mills, Music Licensing, Napster, REM, Rush, Sony, Tom DeLonge, Ukraine

THIS JUST IN: Video from the presidential SUV when the Secret Service refused to take Trump the Capitol on January

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Tech 

Spotify is developing some AI tools that it hopes will hook users in new ways

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Artificial Intelligence, Skygge, Sony, Spotify, The Flow Machine

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest areas of research right now as scientists and engineers work to (a)

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Music News 

Random music news for Thursday, May 12, 2022

May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Britney Spears, Coldplay, Diana Ross, Eurovision, Gary Numan, Madonna, NFTs, Oberheim, Podcasting, Radio, Sony, Tame Impala, Warner

Nothing to see here. Just a Russian oil oligarch dying from toad poison. Not suspicious at all. Meanwhile, nothing but

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Music News 

Random music news for Friday, March 11, 2022

March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Arkells, Brian Adams, CDs, K-Pop, Korn, Nintendo, Notorious BIG, PlayStation, Russia, Sony, South Korea, Ukraine

Oh, great. As if we don’t have enough to worry about, there’s this. Try not to worry too much as

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Music News 

Random music news for Saturday, February 12, 2022

February 12, 2022February 12, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alice Cooper, Apple, Harley Quinn, Hi-Res Audio, Ian McDonald, Rick Rubin, Snoop Dogg, Sony

So that’s what Venus looks like. And here’s what music news looks like for February 12, 2022. Snoop Dogg denies

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