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The CFNY: The Spirit of Radio documentary adds a Buffalo screening (plus a reminder about Vancouver)

April 16, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

We’ve been touring the extended mix version of the CFNY: Spirit of Radio documentary for a couple of months now. While there’s the 60-minute TVO version available on YouTube, this full-length cut fills

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Music Industry

A US federal jury rules that Live Nation operated as an illegal monopoly. Now what? It’s…complicated.

April 16, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

And there you have it. The people who wanted blood from Live Nation and Ticketmaster just may have it. After a six-week trial in New York, a US federal jury says that Live

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Music Industry

Time again for the weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report. Streaming stats, too! (16 Apr 2026)

April 16, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

It’s hard to believe, but 2026 is almost a third over. Here’s where things stand when it comes to Canadian CD and vinyl sales, according to industry watcher Luminate. Keep in mind these

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Movies

July Talk: The Rom-Com. No, really.

April 16, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 3 min read

July Talk fans know that co-lead singers, Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay Goldstein are a real-life couple. Not are they new parents, but the pair are involved in a romantic comedy film. The

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RadioTechWTF?

This was inevitable: The “AI Top 40”

April 16, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

The AI Top 40 calls itself a “live, fully AI-generated chart show.” Great. Its creators–still most likely human at this point–trained the model on nearly 50,000 hours of actual, real-life radio broadcasts. The

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Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: Movie cameos

April 16, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

Unexpectedly seeing your favourite band in a movie can sometimes eclipse the flick itself. These are some of the cameos that brought rock to the silver screen. Want to see Josh Homme playing

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Random music news for Thursday, April 16, 2026

April 16, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

Move over, Dr. Google. Here comes Dr. TikTok. And here comes music news for April 16, 2026. BONUS: What if they made remade the original Planet of the Apes from 1968 using the

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Music News

RIP legendary Canadian concert promoter and label owner, Donald Tarlton (aka Donald K. Donald)

April 15, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2 min read

Back in the days before Ticketmaster, there were a myriad of regional concert promoters throughout North America. One of them was Donald Tarlton, a big man who always appeared to be smiling when

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Uncharted

Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 62: The life and craziness of Keith Moon

April 15, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

It’s the late ’60s. You’re with your wife, and you’re on a bit of a holiday. You’ve booked a room in a nice hotel, looking for some peace and quiet. After a pleasant

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Music IndustryUncharted

Hacker collective Anna’s Archive has been hit with a court order of US$322 million. Good luck collecting on that.

April 15, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Anna’s Archive is the group of hackers that scraped at least 86 million songs from Spotify’s servers, along with metadata for another 200 million+. The goal was to release all this music to

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Concerts

Heading to the second weekend of Coachella? Bring money. Lots of it.

April 15, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

It’s a given that whenever you attend a major festival, you will be expected to pay and pay and pay once you get through the gates. And because you’re essentially a prisoner, you’re

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