The cops reported it as a suicide, another musician who had washed out of the business and took his own life. Sad, but common stuff. The police had seen it all before. There
Read MoreDepending on whom you ask, anywhere from 30,000 to 50,000 song uploads to Spotify are AI creations–slop, in other words. Other stream platform report more or less the same numbers. Deezer, for example,
Read MoreAM radio has been enjoyed in cars since the early 1930s. FM radio (such as it was back then) first appeared in car radios in the early 1950s. Since then, the car has
Read MoreBefore Trent Reznor settled on Nine Inch Nails in 1988, he was part of a series of Cleveland bands that went nowhere. And none of them sounded like NIN. Option 30: A new-wavey
Read More“Mr. Brightside” was the first-ever single from The Killers. It was released on September 29, 2003, and in Britain, it has never, ever gone away. It’s been on and off the British charts
Read MoreRadio signals from an exoplanet! Yay! Aliens? No. Damn. But as a consolation, here’s music news for September 29, 2026. BONUS: And speaking of cassettes…
Read MoreDavid Marsden, the man who built the original CFNY and guided the station through its Spirit of Radio years, has died. He was 85. David suffered a fall about a week ago and
Read MoreYou know that an event as big as Back to the Beginning, the final show for Ozzy and Black Sabbath back on July 5, 2025, had to come with a documentary. And it
Read MoreEver since Matt Cameron announced he was stepping away from Pearl Jam after 27 years, there was endless speculation about who would fill his spot. Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction), Brad Wilk (Rage Against
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Fifty years ago, a series of events on both sides of the Atlantic conspired to give birth to a new strain of rock that
Read More[A final report from Zachary Resnick and Ross MacDonald. – AC] The final night of 2026’s City Folk Festival in Ottawa saw legends of punk and rock take to the main stage for
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