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My fall speaking tour continues tonight in Stouffville ON and through the weekend in Tillsonburg and St. Catharines

September 6, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

After taking a bit of a summer break, I’ll be on the road again this fall with more speaking dates and personal appearances. Here’s the first tranche. More to come!

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Sunday Lunch with Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox is bee-utifal. (sorry)

September 7, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox went all out for Sunday Lunch this week covering The Hives’s “Hate to Say I Told You So.” Who makes these costumes?

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The Neon Legacy of Miami Vice: Music, Style, and TV History The Neon Legacy of Miami Vice: Music, Style, and TV History
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The Neon Legacy of Miami Vice: Music, Style, and TV History

September 7, 2025 Andrew Dick 0 Comments 1 min read

Before prestige TV, before streaming dominance, there was a cop show that didn’t just tell stories—it looked like a music video and sounded like an album. This is the story of Miami Vice—the

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Funny/Weird

This band’s drummer is a bunch of mushrooms. He’s a fungi (sorry)

September 7, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Manchester has been the home to many great bands: Joy Division/New Order, The Smiths, The Fall, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Oasis, and so on. There’s an excellent chance at some point, some of

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Music News

The next Nine Inch Nails gig is…unexpected

September 6, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

As Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails continue their tour, fans are looking forward to the soundtrack he and partner Atticus Ross created for the new Tron: Ares movie. This is a Disney

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Movies

Here’s the latest trailer for Green Day’s road trip movie

September 6, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

It’s called New Years Rev and follows a band as they travel to California in the mistaken belief that they’ve got an opening slot for a big punk trio (guess who?) It will

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Random music news for Saturday, September 6, 2025

September 6, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

Great. Fake AI slop history is crowding out REAL history online. No slop here, though. His is music news for September 6, 2025. BONUS: OK Go is at it again. Check out this

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Music News

Photos and a review of The Who and Tom Cochrane in Toronto

September 5, 2025 Alan Cross 1 Comment 9 min read

[Ross MacDonald was there for us. – AC] It was the weather that every outdoor venue dreams of: clear skies, the sun starting to set, 25 degrees (dropped to about 18 degrees at

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Music News

Looks like a Foo Fighters tour is coming

September 5, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

It appears that Foo Fighters are about to do…something. A tour? Probably. Another album? Likely. Now that Dave has put his baby daddy issues behind them and Ilan Rubin has been hired as

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There’s a new collaboration between Terry Fox and The Tragically Hip

September 5, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Forty-five years ago this month, one of the most amazing athletic endeavors in the history of humankind came to a sad end when Terry Fox had to stop his Marathon of Hope in

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Music Industry

Here’s a running list of artists who have sold some or all of their song catalogues to a new breed of company. (Updated as required)

September 5, 2025 Alan Cross 27 Comments 24 min read

[If you’re seeing this in your feed again, it’s because another deal has gone down. -AC] The music world is being shaken by the actions of a growing group of companies which are

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