Alan Cross🇨🇦
@alancross.bsky.social
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/
Music News: https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/
ICYMI: And what has our adorably naive opera singer discovered this week? #musicnews
And what has our adorably naive opera singer discovered this week?
You would think that by posting two or three reaction videos a week, Elizabeth Zharoff (aka The Charismatic Voice) would be all caught up on all the rock music she missed while studying
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November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
ICYMI: And what has our adorably naive opera singer discovered this week? #musicnews
ICYMI: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have launched Christmas Sunday Lunch #musicnews
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have launched Christmas Sunday Lunch
Yes, it’s that time again in the kitchen. Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox welcome the holiday season with this week’s edition of Sunday Lunch. Hey, it’s better than that song from Mariah Carey.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
ICYMI: Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have launched Christmas Sunday Lunch #musicnews
Ticketmaster has just done something interesting with tickets for this tour #musicnews
Ticketmaster has just done something interesting with tickets for this tour
Olivia Dean was very vocal about how Ticketmaster was handling resale tickets for her 2026 tour. She didn’t hold back with an Instagram post on Friday (November 21): “[Ticketmaster], [Live Nation], [AEG]: You
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November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Ticketmaster has just done something interesting with tickets for this tour #musicnews
The AI-and-music wave keeps coming. Another major has signed a licensing deal with Suno #musicnews
The AI-and-music wave keeps coming. Another major has signed a licensing deal with Suno
Suno is one of the most popular AI music generators and also a company that’s been sued quite a bit for using copyrighted material to train its models. However, those lawsuits are slowing
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November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The AI-and-music wave keeps coming. Another major has signed a licensing deal with Suno #musicnews
On the eve of American Thanksgiving, here’s a song about TACO. Yes, it’s about TFG. #musicnews
On the eve of American Thanksgiving, here’s a song about TACO. Yes, it’s about TFG.
How many American Thanksgiving dinners will be ruined by political arguments about Donald Trump and MAGA this week? A track called “TACO” from Woolley crossed my desk this week. Everybody dance!
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November 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
On the eve of American Thanksgiving, here’s a song about TACO. Yes, it’s about TFG. #musicnews
Can you play “Bohemian Rhapsody” with a bass guitar and a spoon? #musicnews
Can you play “Bohemian Rhapsody” with a bass guitar and a spoon?
Yes. Yes, you can. (Hey, America is starting their Thanksgiving long weekend. Music news will be a little light for the next bit, so I’ll take anything I can get.) As a bonus,
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November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Can you play “Bohemian Rhapsody” with a bass guitar and a spoon? #musicnews
Ongoing History Daily: The Killers’ hit born out of an inability to pick up girls #musicnews
Ongoing History Daily: The Killers’ hit born out of an inability to pick up girls
When The Killers were first starting out in Las Vegas in the early 2000s, the guys in the band hung out in clubs looking to hook up. They were not successful, and the
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November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Ongoing History Daily: The Killers’ hit born out of an inability to pick up girls #musicnews
Random music news for Wednesday, November 26, 2025 #musicnews
Random music news for Wednesday, November 26, 2025
A solid gold toilet’s auction result was, well, crappy. But believe it or not, it was sold. Music news for November 26, 2025, is much more useful. BONUS: Um… A televangelist in Louisiana
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November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Random music news for Wednesday, November 26, 2025 #musicnews
ICYMI: Another fake AI artist has been outed and removed #musicnews
Another fake AI artist has been outed and removed
There is absolutely no need for AI to be making “original” music. Can it be used as a tool? Absolutely. But no one is clamouring for music made by a computer program that
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November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
ICYMI: Another fake AI artist has been outed and removed #musicnews
ICYMI: Longtime Toronto broadcaster, programmer, and writer Jeff Woods needs your help with a prostate cancer battle #musicnews
Longtime Toronto broadcaster, programmer, and writer Jeff Woods needs your help with a prostate cancer battle
Jeff Woods and I worked together at Corus Radio for years. While we both had on-air and program director gigs, there was another division of labour. While I concentrated on alt-rock with The
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November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
ICYMI: Longtime Toronto broadcaster, programmer, and writer Jeff Woods needs your help with a prostate cancer battle #musicnews
Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 54: The Long Strange Trip of How Owsley Stanley’s LSD Changed Music Forever #musicnews
Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 54: The Long Strange Trip of How Owsley Stanley’s LSD Changed Music Forever
It’s June 10, 1973, and you’re headed to see the Grateful Dead at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. You’ll soon be joined by 100,000 Deadheads grooving to the music. Everyone around you is
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 54: The Long Strange Trip of How Owsley Stanley’s LSD Changed Music Forever #musicnews
ICYMI: Random music news for Saturday, November 22, 2025 #musicnews
Random music news for Saturday, November 22, 2025
Time to review your passwords to see if they’re on the “most common” list. You’re welcome. You’re also welcome for music news for November 22, 2025. SONG: Are you ready for The Great
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
ICYMI: Random music news for Saturday, November 22, 2025 #musicnews
There’s another development in the case of the dead teenager in the rapper’s Tesla #musicnews
There’s another development in the case of the dead teenager in the rapper’s Tesla
The story thus far: Back on September 8, the body Celeste Riva, a 14-year-old runaway, was found in the boot of a Tesla that had been towed to an impound lot in the
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November 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
There’s another development in the case of the dead teenager in the rapper’s Tesla #musicnews
Billie Eilish co-directed her documentary. It’s in 3D and she did it with James Cameron. #musicnews
Billie Eilish co-directed her documentary. It’s in 3D and she did it with James Cameron.
There have been 3D music movies in the past–U2 3D from 2007 comes to mind–but I can’t think of another that involves director James Cameron. Yet here we are with a Billie Eilish
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November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Billie Eilish co-directed her documentary. It’s in 3D and she did it with James Cameron. #musicnews
Ongoing History Daily: The one-hit wonderness of Harvey Danger #musicnews
Ongoing History Daily: The one-hit wonderness of Harvey Danger
The late 90s were an awkward time for alt-rock. Pop music and hip-hop were the dominant sounds. Meanwhile, the rock music industry just threw stuff out there, hoping that something would stick. This
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November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Ongoing History Daily: The one-hit wonderness of Harvey Danger #musicnews
New Music from the Inbox Tuesday Edition (November 25, 2025): Ax and the Hatchetmen, Girl Tones, The Midnight, & More! #musicnews
New Music from the Inbox Tuesday Edition (November 25, 2025): Ax and the Hatchetmen, Girl Tones, The Midnight, & More!
Ax and the Hatchetmen Song: “Oasis”Album: SingleRelease Date: October 3, 2025Location: Chicago, IllinoisWhy I Like It: Catchy and jangly.Listen: Girl Tones Song: “Burnout”Album: SingleRelease Date: October 3, 2024Location: Kentucky, USWhy I Like It:
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November 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
New Music from the Inbox Tuesday Edition (November 25, 2025): Ax and the Hatchetmen, Girl Tones, The Midnight, & More! #musicnews
Random music news for Tuesday, November 25, 2025 #musicnews
Random music news for Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Finding it hard to get moving in the morning, even with coffee? What about this new Chinese wristband that shocks you awake? No? I thought so. On to music news for November 25.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Random music news for Tuesday, November 25, 2025 #musicnews
RIP reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff. He was 81. #musicnews
RIP reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff. He was 81.
While Bob Marley is at the top of the podium when it comes to exporting Jamaican reggae to the world, Jimmy Cliff is right behind him. The singer and actor has died at
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November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
RIP reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff. He was 81. #musicnews
And the winners of the Lighthouse One Fine Day contest are… #musicnews
And the winners of the Lighthouse One Fine Day contest are…
Last week, we launched a contest around a new Lighthouse vinyl reissue of One Fine Day on splatter vinyl. I had two copies to give away. And the winners are: Thanks to all
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November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
And the winners of the Lighthouse One Fine Day contest are… #musicnews
Is the future about bands or brands? Let’s take a look at that. #musicnews
Is the future about bands or brands? Let’s take a look at that.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Come next May 26 in Moncton, N.B., Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman will kick off a national tour under the name The Guess Who.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Is the future about bands or brands? Let’s take a look at that. #musicnews
ICYMI: Ukraine managed to jam Russia’s “superweapon” by playing a song #musicnews
Ukraine managed to jam Russia’s “superweapon” by playing a song
If you’re following the Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, you’ll know that Ukraine has been putting up far, far more of a fight than Putin expected. Every once in a while, Putin bloviates
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November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
ICYMI: Ukraine managed to jam Russia’s “superweapon” by playing a song #musicnews
ICYMI: The Cure has posted a trailer for the new concert film, The Show of a Lost World #musicnews
The Cure has posted a trailer for the new concert film, The Show of a Lost World
Last November, I traveled to London to see The Cure perform their then-new album, Songs of a Lost World, at the 3000-person Troxy on the night the record was released. There were cameras
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November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
ICYMI: The Cure has posted a trailer for the new concert film, The Show of a Lost World #musicnews
ICYMI: Spotify’s expanded “Song Credits” try to bring back liner notes #musicnews
Spotify’s expanded “Song Credits” try to bring back liner notes
The great thing about physical music like CDs and especially vinyl was the package itself. Beyond the artwork, there are lyrics, liner notes, and all manner of printed information that gives us more
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November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
ICYMI: Spotify’s expanded “Song Credits” try to bring back liner notes #musicnews
Billie Corgan’s Mellon Collie opera debuted over the weekend #musicnews
Billie Corgan’s Mellon Collie opera debuted over the weekend
It’s hard to pick the definitive Smashing Pumpkins album, but I’m guessing most people will go wtih 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. That record has proved to be remarkably enduring. Billy
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November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Billie Corgan’s Mellon Collie opera debuted over the weekend #musicnews
ICYMI: The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1063: What Bowie Still Matters, part 1 #musicnews
The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1063: What Bowie Still Matters, part 1
I remember where I was when I heard that David Bowie had died. It was 2:30 in the morning on Monday, January 11, 2016. I was already having a restless night, so instead
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November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
ICYMI: The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1063: What Bowie Still Matters, part 1 #musicnews