[This was my weekly column for Globalnews.ca. – AC] I spend a couple of hours each morning scouring online sources for the latest music news and recommendations. Some of what I find gets
Read MoreI just arrived in Kingston Sunday night and there are reminders of this week’s festivities marking the 10th anniversary of the final concert from The Tragically Hip everywhere. The band’s faces are on
Read MorePop music isn’t my thing, but for billions of people, it’s their favourite genre. It also turns out that the brains of these pop fans need pop music, specifically pop concerts. Why? Bala
Read MorePop-up stores selling tour merch weren’t much of a thing until just a few years ago. Now, though, they’ve been found to generate HUGE amounts of revenue (I’m looking at you, Oasis), EVERYONE
Read MoreIt turns out that there are many ways to game the technology that powers streaming music services. Take the case of a funk band called Vulfpeck. In March 2014, they uploaded an album
Read MoreA cancer vaccine for dogs? Bring it on! Now let’s move to music news for August 17, 2026. BONUS: We’re working on a CFNY: The Spirit of Radio book to go along with
Read MoreIn a church in Germany, an organ is plugging away at a composition entitled “As Slow As Possible” by avant-garde composer, John Cage. And the people in charge of this organ are very,
Read MoreWhy is Robert Fripp dressed like Slash for Sunday Lunch? Because this is a cover of “Give in to Me,” a Michael Jackson song from the 1993 album, Dangerous, that featured Slash on
Read MoreRush played a whole whack of hometown shows last week, and coincidentally, Elizabeth Zharoff (aka The Charismatic Voice) chanced upon “Subdivisions” for her reaction video and analysis. And like all her videos, she’s
Read MoreWell, this is good new for my two podcasts, The Ongoing History of New Music and Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. WhichPodcast is a service that indexes the millions of
Read MoreToday we have all sorts of spatial audio available to us: Atmos, Dolby 5.1 (and beyond), DTS, Apple Spatial Audio, and so on. But the first journey into immersive music beyond two-channel stereo
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