Sure, Woodstock happened 50 years ago, but so did a Toronto festival that helped break up The Beatles.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] There have been plenty of 50th-anniversary commemorations this summer. The Apollo
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Random music news for Monday, August 19, 2019
On this date in 1953, the CIA and MI6 overthrew the regime in Iran and installing the West-friendly Shah. That
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Random music news for Wednesday, August 7, 2019
On this day in 1955, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sold its first transistor radios. When it comes
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Random music news for Saturday, July 27, 2019
Why do so many Canadian radio stations insist on giving the temperature in Fahrenheit? Jeezus, we’ve only been metric since
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Random music news for Thursday, July 25, 2019
The speaking tour is over–for now, anyway–so I’m flying back home today. Let’s do this again. Meanwhile, here’s some music
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Random music news for Tuesday, May 21, 2019
One summer long weekend down. But there’s still three more to go. Meanwhile, let’s get back to work with some
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Random music news for Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Today is Mark Zuckerberg’s birthday. Imagine the number of messages he’ll get today. On to music news for May 14,
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A list of cool music news items you may have missed when this website was down
Yes, we’re up and running again after nearly two weeks issues with our web hosting service. It was THEIR fault
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This isn’t good: Tickets sales for Woodstock 50 have been postponed.
If things had gone according to plan, people would have been able to buy tickets to the 50th anniversary Woodstock
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Random music news for Wednesday, April 17, 2019
It was a big day in space history on this date in 1970 when Apollo 13 made it back to
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Random music news for Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Disaster. My coffee machine died this morning. This is not the way you want the day to start. Meanwhile, in
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