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Jack White has a new album and is releasing it in a sneaky way

June 10, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 8 Views

It’s confirmed: Jack White’s seventh album, entitled Frozen Charlotte, is ready and will be released next month. It’s just that no one has heard the news. Well, a few people. The only announcement

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The One Minute Music Book Club: Rough Description by Don Pyle

June 10, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 5 Views

Music memoirs are hot right now, and I can’t get enough of them. One of the latest on my pile is Rough Description by Don Pyle, the former drummer of Canada’s Shadowy Men

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The World Cup starts today and streaming services are flooded with fake World Cup anthems

June 10, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 19 Views

The first of 104 games in the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off today in Mexico City, featuring Mexico vs. South Africa, and if you’re looking for an anthem to go with the

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There’s a new survey on how people value music during the streaming era. How do you measure up?

June 10, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 12 Views

The Digital Media Association (DiMA) has just released a new report on how we use, perceive, and pay for music in the streaming era. The report says that in the age of streaming,

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Which genres have fans with the filthiest language? There’s been a study.

June 10, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 11 Views

Yep, another music study that’s actually a thinly-veiled advertisement for a company trying to reach music fans. But this is a fun one, so I’ll bite Ticket reseller Fanatix looked at over 250,000

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There’s now a site that identifies fake sellers of fake concert tickets in real time.

June 10, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 15 Views

Here’s the problem with outlawing legitimate secondary ticket sellers like StubHub: Because there will always, ALWAYS be demand for a hot ticket, there will always, ALWAYS be a way for someone to capitalize

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Ongoing History Daily: Read your EULA!

June 10, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 16 Views

Be honest: When you are faced with a dialogue box that wants you to read the terms and conditions of whatever software or service you’re using, you just click “agree” or “okay” and

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Random music news for Wednesday, June 10, 2026

June 10, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 18 Views

For the first time, bot traffic has overtaken humans on the internet. I assure you, though, the gathering of music news for June 10, 2026, is was the product of a human. BONUS:

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Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, Episode 067: The Life and Crimes of Keith Richards (Part 2)

June 9, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 62 Views

There are two roads you can take as a rock star. You can be responsible, keep the partying to a minimum, stay away from drugs, and just generally look after yourself. Or you

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Tech

Apple quadruples down on Siri with new AI capabilities.

June 9, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 71 Views

Apple really wants us to talk to our devices via Siri, which was my takeaway from the presentation at its World Wide Developers conference yesterday. Here are some bullet points: Siri AI has

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The One Minute Music Book Club: Leaning into It by Rik Emmett

June 9, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 68 Views

Guitarist Rik Emmett, who is now back on tour with Triumph, loves to write poetry. This collection, Leaning into It by Rik Emmett, captures some of his poetic side. View this post on

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Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry

Have I got a story for you! Award-winning Music Historian and host of the chart-topping Ongoing History of New Music Podcast Alan Cross unleashes his next amazing podcast. In every episode, Alan Cross takes you inside unbelievable true stories of crime, murder, scandal, strange deaths, unexplainable events, and the general mayhem from the music industry through the decades. There is a lot of bad behaviour that needs to be talked about. It’s a one-of-a-kind podcast featuring true crime stories from the world of music.

The Science of Song by Alan Cross

This illustrated book explores how music and the ways we experience it has transformed over the years and the science behind all of it. It starts with the basics — how does sound work? and what, exactly, is music?

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