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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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ICYMI: Our adorkable opera singer discovers “Lightning Crashes” by Live #musicnews

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Time to dig into your closet. These are the most valuable vintage band t-shirts. #musicnews

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He has really lost it.

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The CRTC needs your input on CanCon. www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-definint...

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Time for a music news roundup. www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/random-music...

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Update on the tour. www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/my-spring-sp...

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ICYMI: Have you got an old cassette player at home? You might want to try this. #musicnews

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Coldplay just played the biggest stadium show of the millennium #musicnews

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Mannerisms?

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If Trump was president in 1940: “Britain, Germany has all the cards. Your Army fled like a dog in Dunkirk! You don’t have any cards and you need cards!! I just want peace and i don’t care who has the advantage! CARDS!”

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ICYMI: The man who went on a stabbing spree at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class for kids has been sentenced #musicnews

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Sum 41 now has their own street in Ajax, Ontario #musicnews

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Another anti-Trump ad in today’s NYT.

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Someone took out a full page ad in the Sunday NYT pleading for 🍑🤡 to resign.

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ICYMI: ICYMI: Things I posted elsewhere this week (25 Jan 2025) #musicnews

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Study: 82% of indie artists can’t afford to tour anymore #musicnews

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ICYMI: Time to start talking about the Super Bowl halftime show. There’s now a trailer. #musicnews

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Ongoing History Daily: The father of the guitar solo #musicnews

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ICYMI: Random music news for Saturday, January 25, 2025 #musicnews

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Random music news for Tuesday, January 28, 2025 #musicnews

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I wouldn’t be surprised. www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/28/k...

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ICYMI: Ongoing History Daily: Into cassettes? Good luck finding a cassette player #musicnews

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Sum 41 comes to an end this week. I will miss them. #musicnews

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Gee, what could possibly go wrong? www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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ICYMI: It’s awards season. The Brits have released their nominations. #musicnews

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Photos and a review of Sum 41’s last-ever show in Ottawa #musicnews

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ICYMI: The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1038: The Top 100 Moments in Rock in the 21st Century So Far (90-81) #musicnews

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Are live classic rock gigs at the crossroads? #musicnews

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We need an app that automatically deletes accidental iPhone screenshots.

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75,000 Cancel Their Subscriptions In 2 Days After Jeff Bezos Takes Over Washington Post Opinions Page: A wave of readers have responded to Jeff Bezos turning The Washington Post opinions pages into a pro-MAGA forum by canceling their subscriptions.

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'Ruthless cuts': Trump ripped for 'complete betrayal' of his base: Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been the public face of the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle many government agencies and slash the size of the federal workforce. On Wednesday, he attended Trump’s first Cabinet…

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A side effect of yesterday's Oval Office mess: The media was thrown off the release of the Epstein files. Funny, that.

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Nope. Not suspicious at all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSW8...

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DonOLD has syphilis? Interesting theory. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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ICYMI: Gavin Rossdale’s cooking show set to premiere on February 13 #musicnews

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Ongoing History Daily: Music can change how we remember the past #musicnews

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Zelensky Zingers: I need ammunition, I don’t need a ride. I didn’t come here to play cards. I will wear costume after this war is over. Brilliant. Any others?

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ICYMI: Let’s end the week with a Diddy report #musicnews

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Random music news for Monday, January 27, 2025 #musicnews

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This moment is going in the history books as the moment the US became irrelevant as a global power and ushered in the start of world war 3. Zelenskyy exposed the traitors.

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“He’s gotta stop the fighting” — Trump on Zelenskyy (note how he never makes this demand of Putin, the aggressor)

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Why is he so incredibly nice to Putin and then so incredibly mean to Zelensky? what’s that about

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Zelenskyy is a tough bastard. Proud of him for standing up to what was obviously a setup.

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ICYMI: Rob Zombie gets the biographical comic book treatment #musicnews

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Sunday Lunch with Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox goes Swedish #musicnews

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