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Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox go bubblegum for Sunday Lunch

July 5, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 13 Views

Before there was hyperpop, there was bubblegum, the OG of ridicullous ultra-catchy songs with sugary hooks. The reason we use the term “bubblegum” is because one of the big groups of this 60s

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Here’s another example of the AI slop that’s killing the internet

July 5, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 9 Views

“The internet is dead,” a friend of mine said to me last year. “It’s all over. It’s nothing but bots and AI slop and subscriptions and evil algorithms and surveillance now. Everything has

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Funny/Weird

Time to check in on what rock song our adorably naive opera singer has discovered

July 5, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 14 Views

Elizabeth Zharoff (the Charismatic Voice) has more than two million subscribers who follow her reaction video series. Basically, she was too busy learning to be an opera star to pay attention to what

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Controversy

What a shock: People are gaming the Spotify charts with prediction platforms

July 4, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 68 Views

You’re probably aware by now that predictive gaming is everywhere. Sites like Polymarket and Kalshi allow people to bet on just about anything. The problem is that it’s often easy to fix the

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This Greek priest specializes in doom metal. Listen.

July 4, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 54 Views

When I first ran across this story, I thought, “That’s weird.” But then I thought back to all those medieval chants that echoed through Gothic cathedrals back in the day. That music was

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Random music news for Saturday, July 4, 2026

July 4, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 71 Views

The hottest online trend is the “dopamine website.” We can thank South Korea for that. As for music news for July 4, 2026. BONUS: Science proves it. Losing feels worse than it feels

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I didn’t want to write about Rolling Stones’ list of the 50 greatest Canadian artists of all time, but it’s so horrible, that I just have to.

July 3, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 140 Views

Rolling Stone, which fancies itself as some kind of arbiter of musical taste and culture, even in areas where its writers obviously have no expertise. Witness this abomination of a list of what

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Music News

Does FIFA know about The Rolling Stones Streaming World Cup?

July 3, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 96 Views

FIFA is really, really vigilant when it comes to its trademarks. Will The Rolling Stones attract their attention with this? They call it The Rolling Stones Streaming World Cup. For the next four

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Bryan Adam has a released a STFU song directed at Donald Trump called “51st State”

July 3, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 98 Views

They don’t come much more Canadian than Bryan Adams, and he’s sick and tired of all the BS 51st state nonsense coming from President Count of Mostly Crisco. His response is a vicious

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Here comes the Las Vegas Elton John hologram show

July 3, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 87 Views

With so many artists in their 70s and 80s, there are efforts to keep them performing and earning after their dead. Holograms are one way. ABBA Voyage is the gold standard for this.

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Ongoing History Daily: Operating room music

July 3, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 69 Views

We’ve all seen TV shows featuring surgeons performing delicate procedures while music is playing in the operating room. Music keeps things calm, keeps the pace up, and helps everyone to stay awake during

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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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