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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are campaigning for stronger protections on social media and warning of the threat it poses to children and young users. The royal couple unveiled a memorial in New York ...
The world is still talking about the effect Muhammad Ali had in his lifetime. One area that isn’t getting enough attention (in my opinion, anyway) is Ali’s music career. He released a spoken word ...
Here in Canada, it’s the law that radio stations have to devote at least 35% of their playlist to Canadian music. The licenses of other stations state a quota of 40%. Do any other countries do the ...
Question: What is the most expensive musical instrument in the world? No, it’s not some Stradivarius violin or a rare Beatles guitar. It’s the Large Hadron Collider. Wait—the big machine in France and ...
Now that the stragglers are waking up to the fact that a tariff is a tax on the consumer (the importing company pays the tariff and then passes the increased cost to the consumer in the form of higher ...
Humans are a weird species… Yes, we can be inquisitive, but we can also be very docile, especially when it comes to tradition. We’re told to do something because, well, it’s always been done this way.
I know this has happened to you. A song comes on the radio that you haven’t heard in FOREVER yet you can remember all the words. How is this possible? It has to do with how the brain works. Lyrics are ...
It’s an understatement to say that rock has been dominated by dudes since its birth in the early 1950s. Consequently, most of the inductees in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are male. But did you know ...
The musical evolution of The Beatles was insane. They went from songs like “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to “A Day in the Life” in less than five years. Most of this was due to the talents within the ...
There were many reasons for the rise of punk rock in the 1970s. For some, it was an art movement while for others it had to do with class struggle. And then there were the punk rockers who felt that ...
Even after the CD took off in the 1990s, the music and electronics industries were looking for the next format. Sony thought they had a solution with the MiniDisc, a portable digital music device that ...