https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/ Filtering what is happening in music to save you time, money and effort. Brought to you by Human Beings, not AI bots. Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:45:42 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/alanlogo-150x150.png https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/ 32 32 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/sunday-lunch-with-robert-fripp-and-toyah-willcox-is-all-new-with-the-mc5/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/sunday-lunch-with-robert-fripp-and-toyah-willcox-is-all-new-with-the-mc5/#respond Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:35:07 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254200 Yep. Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox are back in the kitchen to kick out the jams.]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/sunday-lunch-with-robert-fripp-and-toyah-willcox-is-all-new-with-the-mc5/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/soundgarden-has-released-pro-shot-video-of-their-nfl-halftime-performance/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/soundgarden-has-released-pro-shot-video-of-their-nfl-halftime-performance/#respond Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:20:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254174 When the NFL season opened in Seattle with the Seahawks playing the Patriots in a Super Bowl rematch, Soundgarden was the halftime entertainment. But for whatever reason, NBC refused to show the performance,]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/soundgarden-has-released-pro-shot-video-of-their-nfl-halftime-performance/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-latest-opus-from-randy-rainbow-takes-a-look-at-donald-trumps-appearance/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-latest-opus-from-randy-rainbow-takes-a-look-at-donald-trumps-appearance/#respond Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:10:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254148 This is an easy target, but it’s irresistible. Randy Rainbow borrows from Oklahoma! to critique Donald Trump‘s look.]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-latest-opus-from-randy-rainbow-takes-a-look-at-donald-trumps-appearance/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/our-adorably-naive-opera-singer-discovered-falling-in-reverse-this-week/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/our-adorably-naive-opera-singer-discovered-falling-in-reverse-this-week/#respond Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254077 Elizabeth Zharoff (aka The Charismatic Voice) is now up to 2.23 million followers on her reaction video channel as people can’t get enough of watching her discover songs that we all know. Why]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/our-adorably-naive-opera-singer-discovered-falling-in-reverse-this-week/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-future-of-music-is-a-mass-of-niches/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-future-of-music-is-a-mass-of-niches/#respond Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254154 “The audience didn’t get smaller. It got specific.” – Kevin Leflar I read a fascinating article last week written by one of Canada’s best music-tech thinkers, Kevin Leflar. In his article “A Mass]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-future-of-music-is-a-mass-of-niches/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/rip-max-webster-lyricist-pye-dubois/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/rip-max-webster-lyricist-pye-dubois/#respond Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:10:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254145 Just days after we heard of the passing of Max Webster drummer Gary McCracken comes news that lyricist Pye Dubois has died at the age of 77. Dubois was also a poet who]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/rip-max-webster-lyricist-pye-dubois/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/ottawa-city-folk-2026-day-4-of-monsters-and-men-plus-angus-julia-stone/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/ottawa-city-folk-2026-day-4-of-monsters-and-men-plus-angus-julia-stone/#respond Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:10:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254122 [This one was all Ross MacDonald. – AC] Saturday brought some cooler temperatures to Ottawa and night four of CityFolk Festival. Fortunately, the forecast changed from rain, and the skies were clear all]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/ottawa-city-folk-2026-day-4-of-monsters-and-men-plus-angus-julia-stone/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/random-music-news-for-saturday-september-26-2026/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/random-music-news-for-saturday-september-26-2026/#respond Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=253971 A library in Singapore is paying people two cents a day to read. They want kids to get into the habit of reading books. I like it. They could start by reading music]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/random-music-news-for-saturday-september-26-2026/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/u2-played-their-old-high-school-on-friday/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/u2-played-their-old-high-school-on-friday/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:36:08 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254161 All the members of U2 were students at Mount Temple Comprehensive High School in North Dublin. It was on a hallway bulletin board that 14-year-old Larry Mullen Jr. posted a notice saying that]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/u2-played-their-old-high-school-on-friday/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/luckily-for-ed-sheeran-the-weather-in-boston-this-weekend-is-going-to-be-bad-his-shows-have-been-cancelled/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/luckily-for-ed-sheeran-the-weather-in-boston-this-weekend-is-going-to-be-bad-his-shows-have-been-cancelled/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:03:22 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254159 If you recall, the whole Ed Sheeran/Macklemore fiasco began when Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of both the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium, objected to Macklemore’s pro-Palestine comments from the stage over]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/luckily-for-ed-sheeran-the-weather-in-boston-this-weekend-is-going-to-be-bad-his-shows-have-been-cancelled/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/you-know-who-released-an-emo-album-today-wendys-yes-the-burger-chain/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/you-know-who-released-an-emo-album-today-wendys-yes-the-burger-chain/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:21:47 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254117 After teasing something via social media on Monday, Wendy’s–yes, them–released an emo EP today entitled The Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Lot. Whoever is running the marketing department sounds like an]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/you-know-who-released-an-emo-album-today-wendys-yes-the-burger-chain/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/macklemore-triples-down-on-his-support-for-palestine-with-a-dedicated-tour/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/macklemore-triples-down-on-his-support-for-palestine-with-a-dedicated-tour/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:14:16 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254114 The storm over Macklemore’s pro-Palestinian remarks–the ones that got him thrown off Ed Sheeran’s Loops tour–is not dying down. While Sheeran has to play two shows at Gillette Stadium in Boston this week]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/macklemore-triples-down-on-his-support-for-palestine-with-a-dedicated-tour/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/theres-more-to-the-title-of-u2s-new-album-carnaval-de-luz-than-it-seems/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/theres-more-to-the-title-of-u2s-new-album-carnaval-de-luz-than-it-seems/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:48:19 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254087 After years of talking about it and worrying about Larry Mullen Jr.’s bad back, U2 is finally about to make a return with what is arguably their first proper studio album since Songs]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/theres-more-to-the-title-of-u2s-new-album-carnaval-de-luz-than-it-seems/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/heres-a-running-list-of-artists-who-have-sold-some-or-all-of-their-song-catalogues-to-a-new-breed-of-company/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/heres-a-running-list-of-artists-who-have-sold-some-or-all-of-their-song-catalogues-to-a-new-breed-of-company/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:11:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=171137 [If you’re seeing this in your feed again, it’s because another deal has gone down. -AC] The music world is being shaken by the actions of a growing group of companies which are]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/heres-a-running-list-of-artists-who-have-sold-some-or-all-of-their-song-catalogues-to-a-new-breed-of-company/feed/ 27 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-ongoing-history-of-new-music-episode-1087-a-follow-up-to-alt-rock-one-hit-wonders/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-ongoing-history-of-new-music-episode-1087-a-follow-up-to-alt-rock-one-hit-wonders/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:10:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=253862 Okay, okay, okay! I hear you! Lemme make some amends here. In spring 2026, I set out to explore alt-rock one-hit wonders. It was a five-episode series in six parts (very Hitchhiker’s Guide]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/the-ongoing-history-of-new-music-episode-1087-a-follow-up-to-alt-rock-one-hit-wonders/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/ongoing-history-daily-sometimes-it-takes-sales-to-catch-up-to-an-albums-influence/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/ongoing-history-daily-sometimes-it-takes-sales-to-catch-up-to-an-albums-influence/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:05:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=253823 An album can be both tremendously influential and a commercial failure—at least at first. Here are a two examples. The Clash’s London Calling came out in December 1979. It didn’t officially sell 500,000]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/ongoing-history-daily-sometimes-it-takes-sales-to-catch-up-to-an-albums-influence/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/random-music-news-for-friday-september-25-2026/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/random-music-news-for-friday-september-25-2026/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=253892 AI has entered home appliances. Why we need an intelligent washing machine is beyond me. Let’s try some human-curated music news for Friday, September 25, 2026. BONUS: Seen this yet? View this post]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/random-music-news-for-friday-september-25-2026/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/35-years-ago-today-was-the-greatest-day-for-new-albums-in-history/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/35-years-ago-today-was-the-greatest-day-for-new-albums-in-history/#respond Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:21:55 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254068 It was Tuesday, September 24, 1991. I was working middays at 102.1 the Edge/Toronto. And it was remarkable. August had been brilliant. We got the black album from Metallica on August 12, and]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/35-years-ago-today-was-the-greatest-day-for-new-albums-in-history/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/its-almost-october-what-albums-are-still-coming-in-2026/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/its-almost-october-what-albums-are-still-coming-in-2026/#respond Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:58:18 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254066 The last four months of the year are traditionally very busy when it comes to new album releases. Here’s what we can expect for the rest of 2026. September 25 October 2 October]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/its-almost-october-what-albums-are-still-coming-in-2026/feed/ 0 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/rip-peter-byrne-of-naked-eyes/ https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/rip-peter-byrne-of-naked-eyes/#respond Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:36:12 +0000 https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/?p=254062 For a while in the early 1980s, Naked Eyes was all over the radio, largely with two songs. The first was “There’s Always Something to Remind Me,” a cover of the Dionne Warwick]]> https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/rip-peter-byrne-of-naked-eyes/feed/ 0