Ten songs that got a second life through movies or TV
[Another list from contributor Adam Morrison. – AC] The right song in the right scene sticks with us. And nothing says the song has to be new, or even new to us. Let’s
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How do Canadians consume media these days? Stats Canada has this report.
This morning’s FYIMusicNews.ca newsletter came with an interesting graphic. It’s a Stats Canada look at how we consume various forms of media. The highlights:
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Random music news for Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Looking to buy a slightly used Airbus A380? Thai Airways is auctioning off their six planes with the opening bid for one of them starting at just US$50,000. Regular list price? Just US$450
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Ongoing History Daily: Krist Novoselic and the Art of TV-Tossing
One of the big rock’n’roll cliches of being on tour is throwing a TV out of a hotel room window. When Nirvana was at its peak, bass player Krist Novoselic was determined to
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Why are Canadians such big music and TV pirates?
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] I’ll admit it: If you go through the files on my computer, you’ll find songs that I downloaded from Napster and other illegal file-sharing
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 974: The Story of TV theme songs
Like Homer Simpson, I love my TV. Without my local, network, cable, on-demand, and streaming subs, I would have never made it through the darkest days of the pandemic. The downside is that
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That time Kate Bush presented a TV Christmas special
If you’re one of the millions of people who discovered Kate Bush in 2022 through the appearance of “Running Up That Hill” in Stranger Things back in the spring, you may have fallen
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Donald Trump is planning a video streaming service. What shows might be on the schedule? Let’s speculate wildly.
Hot on the heels of the total failure of Truth Social, Donald Trump’s right-wing version of Twitter comes word that he’s planning a streaming service that will focus on free speech–or at least
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Fun: A quick history of home entertainment
Most of us have been spending quite a bit of time at home because of bloody COVID. Chances are you’ve become more familiar with all types of home entertainment, too. Here’s a quick
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Random music news for Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Still in LA. I remain unconsumed by wildfires. A good thing, that, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to report on music news for October 29, 2019.This list need to be expanded: Canadian music
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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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