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Alan Cross🇨🇦
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Canadian radio, TV, music, and internet guy. My business card reads “Professional Music Geek.” I’m all about English bull terriers. And I follow politics. Music News: https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 8h
ICYMI: Sunday Lunch with Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox take on Motorhead #musicnews
Sunday Lunch with Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox take on Motorhead
The song that needs normally need no introduction might need a little context here, although I’m not capable of providing it. All I can say that Lemmy would respect Robert Fripp as a
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 8h
ICYMI: Ian Watkins, the evil former frontman for Lostprohets is dead. #musicnews
Ian Watkins, the evil former frontman for Lostprohets is dead.
Ian Watkins, the former frontman for Lostprophets who was convicted after engaging in some activities that were horrific beyond belief is dead after he was attacked in prison. Reports say that he had
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 9h
Looking for a new turntable this Christmas? This one is a little…specialized. #musicnews
Looking for a new turntable this Christmas? This one is a little…specialized.
Pro-Ject is a turntable manufacturer that sells some great conventional machines (I have one) along artist-branded turntables, including one based on Pink Floyd, this one specifically for the hardcore Metallica fan, and even
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 9h
ICYMI: Our lovely, sheltered opera singer reacts to System of a Down #musicnews
Our lovely, sheltered opera singer reacts to System of a Down
Elizabeth Zharoff spent so much time studying opera as a young woman that she missed out on all the rock songs we were listening to. That turned out okay because her reaction video
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 9h
Is this what happened to Ronald McDonald? (Stay with me on this.) #musicnews
Is this what happened to Ronald McDonald? (Stay with me on this.)
For decades, Ronald McDonald was the face of McDonald’s worldwide. Then he just…disappeared. You’d be hard-pressed to find any remains of him at any McDonald’s restaurant anywhere in the world. Why? Officially, it
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 10h
Photos and a review of Strange Advance, Images in Vogue, and The Box in Ottawa #musicnews
Photos and a review of Strange Advance, Images in Vogue, and The Box in Ottawa
[Zachary Resnick and Melody Maloney were there for us. – AC] For the second-to-last stop on their 2025 tour, Strange Advance played Ottawa’s Bronson Centre Music Theatre on a crisp October evening. Known
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 10h
Ongoing History Daily: Rock stars checking into hotels #musicnews
Ongoing History Daily: Rock stars checking into hotels
Rock stars spend a lot of time on the road, which means a lot of hotel stays. And just like everyone else, they have to sign in. Some like to have a little
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 10h
Random music news for Wednesday, October 15, 2025 #musicnews
Random music news for Wednesday, October 15, 2025
In the very near future, if you want to recline your seat while flying WestJet, it’ll cost you. Meanwhile, leaning back and reading music news for October 15, 2025, is still free. BONUS:
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d
Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 51: The horrific rap sheet of R. Kelly #musicnews
Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 51: The horrific rap sheet of R. Kelly
Throughout the 90s and early 2000s, R. Kelly was selling tens of millions of records—perhaps as many as 75 million worldwide—winning awards, having hit singles, and collaborating with Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Whitney
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI: Are reel-to-reel tapes the next old format to make a comeback? Maybe…? #musicnews
Are reel-to-reel tapes the next old format to make a comeback? Maybe…?
Once upon a time, it was possible to purchase pre-recorded music on reel-to-reel tapes. For a time, starting in very early 1950s, this was considered to be high-end audiophile stuff. I seem to
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d
An interview with Drew Arnott of Strange Advance #musicnews
An interview with Drew Arnott of Strange Advance
[This one was covered by Zachary Resnick.- AC] Before their Ottawa, ON, show on October 10th, AJMT got a chance to sit down with Strange Advance’s frontman & O.G. synth-wizard Drew Arnot in
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI: The Rocky Horror Picture Show turned 50 this year. Time to reissue the soundtrack and correct past audio crimes. #musicnews
The Rocky Horror Picture Show turned 50 this year. Time to reissue the soundtrack and correct past audio crimes.
When the official soundtrack to the Rocky Horror Picture Show was released in 1975, it was…disappointing. Not the music itself, mind you, but the audio quality of the vinyl. It stunk. This was
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d
MAGA types fell for this fake Super Bowl halftime show announcement #musicnews
MAGA types fell for this fake Super Bowl halftime show announcement
The MAGA world remains apoplectic over the choice of Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl halftime show because…well, we can only assume racism is involved. He’s one of the biggest artists in the
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI: Random music news for Saturday, October 11, 2025 #musicnews
Random music news for Saturday, October 11, 2025
Look out below! Elmo’s Starlink satellites keep falling out of the sky. Music news for October 11, 2025, however, is perfectly safe. BONUS: I love a good burger as much as the next
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d
Ongoing History Daily: The Clash broke up because of…The Who? #musicnews
Ongoing History Daily: The Clash broke up because of…The Who?
The Clash never really officially broke up. After a final record with a new lineup in 1986, they just kind of evaporated, faded away, never to be heard from again. Why? The usual
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d
Random music news for Tuesday, October 14, 2025 #musicnews
Random music news for Tuesday, October 14, 2025
What’s a great sin of our time? Pope Leo XIV says it’s “clickbait.” I’ll try to keep that to a minimum for music news for October 14, 2025. I don’t want to go
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d
There is zero chance that US companies continue to eat the tariffs. Smaller companies can't, and the big ones who afford to will place their stock holders over their customers. They've all been holding back, hoping TACO Trump will backtrack or come up with solutions, but they won't do this forever.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d
"Through the first months of Trump's new trade regime it is U.S. companies that are footing the bill for his tariffs, and passing on some of it to the consumer - with more price hikes likely..."

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How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs
U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs, early indications show, contradicting assertions by President Donald Trump and complicating the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation.
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d
ICYMI: Taylor Swift broke the one week album sales record in the US. HOWEVER… #musicnews
Taylor Swift broke the one week album sales record in the US. HOWEVER…
When we heard that Taylor Swift sold 2.7 million copies of Life of a Showgirl on its first day on sale with 2.7 million copies (and here’s the sneaky way she did it),
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d
ICYMI: MAGA has announced its own Super Bowl halftime show #musicnews
MAGA has announced its own Super Bowl halftime show
MAGA has been melting down since it was announced that Bad Bunny would be the halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl in February. Their complaints: Now Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk’s organization, says
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d
I think I’ve had a glimpse of the future of AI and music. Here’s what I learned. #musicnews
I think I’ve had a glimpse of the future of AI and music. Here’s what I learned.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Every September, leading up to the Formula One race, Singapore hosts a conference called All That Matters. Thinkers, creators, and entrepreneurs from all over Asia
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d
The Cure went after ICE for stealing a song. #musicnews
The Cure went after ICE for stealing a song.
Let’s be clear: Unless you have specific permission to use someone’s song in something you created, it’s illegal. Full stop. That’s copyright infringement, You need a license. And you’d think that the US
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d
Another reissue: The 30th-anniversary edition of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory from Oasis #musicnews
Another reissue: The 30th-anniversary edition of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory from Oasis
The people behind the Oasis reunion haven’t missed a chance to maximize revenue. The latest (released Friday, October 10) is this 30th-anniversary edition of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory. And it comes with
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d
Ongoing History Daily: The age of cereal box records #musicnews
Ongoing History Daily: The age of cereal box records
Once upon a time, companies that made breakfast cereals were in the record business. Starting in the 1950s, thanks to a company called Rainbo Records, actual sound recordings were embedded on the boxes
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d
Random music news for Monday, October 13, 2025 #musicnews
Random music news for Monday, October 13, 2025
It’s Thanksgiving in Canada, so it’s a nice holiday for almost everyone–except, of course for music news for October 13, 2025. BONUS: Is this the wildest Rubik’s Cube ever? It has screens on
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d
ICYMI: How did Taylor Swift manage to sell 2.7 million copies of her new album in a single day? I’ll tell you. #musicnews
How did Taylor Swift manage to sell 2.7 million copies of her new album in a single day? I’ll tell you.
The news earlier this week was that Taylor Swift managed to move 2.7 million copies of her new album, Life of a Showgirl, the highest-ever first-day sales number. How did she do it?
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