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Photos and a review of Queens of the Stone Age at Massey Hall in Toronto

October 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 5 min read

[Stephanie Snape covered things for us with both the photos and the review. – AC] Sunday night, the red lights that read “Massey Hall” glowed bright against the faces of the people lined

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Lists

Before you click on the new Rolling Stone list of the 250 best songs of the millennium so far, read this.

October 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Rolling Stone has released another one of its “greatest” lists, this time focusing on the best songs released so far in the 21st century. This is, of course, clickbait designed to get people

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Music Industry

Time for the weekly Canadian CD, vinyl, and streaming report (09 Oct 2025)

October 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Back to the normal schedule of reporting on the weekly sales of CDs and vinyl in Canada long with a look at what we’re streaming. All figures courtesy of Luminate. Streaming numbers:

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TechWTF?

This AI band has released 40 albums in 30 days

October 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

Talk about AI slop. If you’re following the whole AI-and-music situation, you’ve heard of The Velvet Sundown, a totally fake band produced using Suno AI and somehow spearheaded by a guy named Andrew

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: David Bowie’s deceptively simple anonymity trip

October 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

David Bowie was one of the galaxy’s biggest rock stars and was instantly recognizable by millions. But he lived in New York for years in almost complete secrecy. How did he remain anonymous

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Music News

Random music news for Thursday, October 9, 2025

October 9, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

I’m really starting to hope that AI/Atlas really is an alien invasion. Elsewhere, we have music news for October 9, 2025. BONUS: And there goes the phone book.

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Recommended Music

MAGA is going nuts over this anti-ICE Zach Bryan song

October 8, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 8 min read

As Trump tries to distract from the Epstein files, he and noted puppy killer Kristine Noem continue to send ICE thugs (probably a lot of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Three Percenters who

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Tech

This music TV channel features nothing but AI-generated hosts. Great. Just…great.

October 8, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

People in broadcasting, my line of work for the last 44 years, are under siege. More and more human hosts are being replaced by AI-generated hosts. Tech is even coming for my gig

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WTF?

Now it’s Blue Öyster Cult vs. Donald Trump over an unhinged parody of “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper”

October 8, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

There was a time when being the President of the United States was a serious job for serious people. The goal was to serve all citizens, play by the rules of honour, follow

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Tech

More AI artists are starting to get record deals

October 8, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Bleeding Verse, an AI band with nearly a million monthly listeners, has a new “creative deal” with a company called Hallwood Media, the product of Neil Jacobson, who used to be an executive

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Ongoing History Daily: Whither the famous CBGB street awning?

October 8, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

The most famous (and probably the most important) punk club in all music history was CBGB, a crappy place with horrific bathrooms at 315 Bleeker Street in New York. Beginning in 1974, this

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