Highlights from my UK Legends of Rock tour: Liverpool, part 2
Earlier this month, I led a group of 200 music fans through London, Liverpool, and Manchester on a tour organized by RIT. Part one of my report can be found here. Part two,
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Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 075: The punk rock terrorist bombing
October 14, 1982. It had been a cool autumn Thursday in Toronto, with light showers that had lingered for hours. In the Rexdale neighbourhood near Pearson International Airport, almost all the 1,500 employees
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Why does so much innovative music come out of the UK? Let’s explore that.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Full disclosure: I am a dedicated Anglophile when it comes to music. I’m deeply invested in the kind of music that comes out of
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Is your favourite music better than medication for pain? Maybe
We know that music has some magical properties, including, it seems, helping us cope with physical pain. The boffins at University Hospital Zürich looked 204 patients receiving an IV cannula (that thing they
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Ongoing History Daily: Music and psychologist Arthur Janov
You may not know the name Arthur Janov, but he had an unusual influence on music. Janov was a psychologist, psychotherapist and writer who, back in the 60s, came up with a theory
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Random music news for Monday, October 12, 2026
BONUS: Elon Musk isn’t gonna like this song from David Byrne and Sean Pemberton. (Via Sean again)
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Here are the dates, locations, and ticket information for the second leg of my national speaking tour
With the first leg of the tour over, it’s time to move to central and eastern Canada for the second leg. Here’s what you need to know. I start in Nova Scotia Then
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Sunday Lunch with Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox is…well, freaky.
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are back in the kitchen this week to cover Silverchair for Sunday Lunch. That’s an exercise ball. Where did the costume come from? What do they have in
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Our adorkable opera singer spent nearly FIVE HOURS analyzing The Blues Brothers movie
For the longest-ever Charismatic Voice session, opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff (the poor naive thing who spent her youth studying music and missing all the music and movies everyone grew up with), takes us
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Want to sing a duet with Finger Eleven? There’s an open call for vocalists
Finger Eleven is offering up an opportunity with their new album, Last Night on Earth. The title track is the new single, but it needs something…more. They’ve launched an open call for a
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Jack White just released a concert poster that doubles as a board game
Jack White played a gig at the BleauLive Theatre in Las Vegas earlier this month. As soon as it was over, the poster for the show went on sale for US$150. That seems
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