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Crime

Week four of the Diddy trial started today

June 2, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

We’re now into the third week of Sean “Diddy” Combs trial.

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Here’s why some artists are electing not to tour.

June 2, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

[This was my weekly column for Global News,ca. – AC] Live Nation, the largest concert promoter and ticketing company, reported earlier this month that it was having an amazing year. More than 100

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Funny/Weird

Our lovely and naive opera singer has stumbled on Queens of the Stone Age

June 2, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Elizabeth Zharoff (otherwise known as The Charismatic Voice) spent most of her life studying to become an opera singer. She was so focused on the task that she missed out pretty much all

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Music News

Dropkick Murphys singer made a surprise visit to Ukraine–and when Trump finds out…

June 2, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

The Dropkick Murhpys are in the news again, this time because frontman Ken Casey headed to Ukraine in a hot period in the war. He went as part of a humanitarian aid mission.

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Documentary

Please enjoy this short documentary on Our Lady Peace called Full Circle

June 2, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Our Lady Peace has been around for a little more than 30 years now, meaning that they have more than enough material for a documentary. Perhaps a longer production is in the cards

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Funny/WeirdOngoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: The weirdest music-and-tech glitch ever involved laptops and Janet Jackson

June 2, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

People who bought Windows laptops around 2005 noticed a weird thing. Whenever someone played Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation within earshot (that is, coming from an audio source other than the computer itself), the laptop

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Random music news for Monday, June 2, 2025

June 2, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

Ever wanted some of Sidney Sweeney’s used bathwater? Now can have some! Once you get over that, proceed to music news for June 2, 2025. BONUS: Is it better to shower in the

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Recommended Music

AC/DC gets the Sunday Lunch treatment from Robert Fipp and Toyah Willcox

June 1, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

It’s another new edition of Sunday Lunch. This time, Robert Fripp dons his schoolboy hat while Toyah Willcox belts out her best version of “Back in Black” in her old school duds.

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Music News

Bono on Trump’s threat to investigate him and others over Kamala Harris support: “There will be trouble.”

June 1, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Bono has been giving interviews as part of the promo push for his Stories of Surrender film, which is now running on Apple TV+. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, he was asked

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ConcertsSurvey

Do different music festivals result in different emergency medical needs? There’s been a study.

June 1, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Whenever a large group of humans gathers together, there are going to be mishaps and accidents. If we place thousands of people in a field and then subject them to music for hours

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Music Industry

Taylor Swift now owns all her masters.

May 31, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

After many years, Taylor Swift has been able to acquire the rights to the master recordings of her first six albums, which, up until Friday (May 30), had been the property of a

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