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- Serious question: Why is Taylor Swift as big as she is?
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] With three of six Taylor Swift shows in Toronto complete, the city — which really should be named “Tayronto” because it has given over everything to Read more » - The One Minute Music Book Club, ep. 5: This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of CBGB
CBGB was not only the most important of all the punk clubs but also Ground Zero for punk, period, full stop. It doesn’t exist anymore, but it will forever have major historical importance. Read more » - Drake lost a big bet on Mike Tyson. Here’s a summary of The Drake Curse.
If saw, the Tyson-Paul fight on Friday night was an embarrassment–providing you could get Netflix to work for you. Why did Tyson look so fierce in training yet was content to dance around Read more » - Let’s start the week with a Diddy report
The stories about Diddy and the charges just keep on coming. You’d think that the well would have run dry by now, but nope. Here’s the latest. Diddy is accused of witness tampering Read more » - Here are all the upcoming dates for the first leg of my fall/winter speaking tour. This weekend: Guelph and Hamilton
A long string of dates on my fall/winter speaking tour has begun. Here are all the latest dates. Coming in 2025: Oshawa, Burnstown, Ottawa, and a bunch more. These are free-wheelin’ discussions (I Read more » - Ongoing History Daily: David Bowie kept priceless works of art in his car? Yes.
David Bowie was one of the great autodidacts in the history of music. He was obsessed with learning as much about the arts as he could. Not only was he a voracious reader, Read more » - Random music news for Monday, November 18, 2024
I don’t think anyone asked for this: An AI program that allegedly writes better poems than Shakespeare. Again, I want AI to do the drudgery so humans have more time to make art. Read more » - Contest! Are you a fan of The English Beat and wants some rare vinyl?
Once again, the folks at The English Beat are offering up some special rare vinyl for records of A Journal of Musical Things. If you would like to win a set, send me Read more » - Sunday Lunch with Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox tackle Living Color and “Cult of Personality”
No wild costumes or makeup this week (well, Robert is wearing a little) but it’s a pretty straight-ahead cover of Living Color’s biggest hit. The mirror effect is interesting touch, though. Read more » - This should be good: Our adorkably naive opera singer finally gets around to reacting to Spinal Tap.
Elizabeth Zharoff’s Charismatic Voice YouTube channel has 1.8 million subscribers and I’ll bet that 1.7 of them have made suggestions for what song she should react to next. Remember, she missed all this Read more »
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