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Alan Cross🇨🇦

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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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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 6h

After Trump's tariff post, trillions vanished in hours. The S&P collapsed. Nasdaq crashed. Tech giants bled red. But a different kind of storm was already brewing — not on Wall Street, but deep inside the blockchain.

While everyone else was watching Trump’s post, someone was already cashing in.

Before that announcement even hit the airwaves, an anonymous crypto wallet suddenly transferred over $1 billion into stablecoins — digital dollars that hold value even when everything else collapses. Then, within seconds of Trump’s post, that same wallet started placing $100 million buy orders across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and multiple altcoins just as the market imploded.

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 17h

ICYMI: MAGA is going nuts over this anti-ICE Zach Bryan song #musicnews

MAGA is going nuts over this anti-ICE Zach Bryan song

As Trump tries to distract from the Epstein files, he and noted puppy killer Kristine Noem continue to send ICE thugs (probably a lot of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Three Percenters who

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 18h

ICYMI: This music TV channel features nothing but AI-generated hosts. Great. Just…great. #musicnews

This music TV channel features nothing but AI-generated hosts. Great. Just…great.

People in broadcasting, my line of work for the last 44 years, are under siege. More and more human hosts are being replaced by AI-generated hosts. Tech is even coming for my gig

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 18h

Are reel-to-reel tapes the next old format to make a comeback? Maybe…? #musicnews

Are reel-to-reel tapes the next old format to make a comeback? Maybe…?

Once upon a time, it was possible to purchase pre-recorded music on reel-to-reel tapes. For a time, starting in very early 1950s, this was considered to be high-end audiophile stuff. I seem to

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 18h

The Rocky Horror Picture Show turned 50 this year. Time to reissue the soundtrack and correct past audio crimes. #musicnews

The Rocky Horror Picture Show turned 50 this year. Time to reissue the soundtrack and correct past audio crimes.

When the official soundtrack to the Rocky Horror Picture Show was released in 1975, it was…disappointing. Not the music itself, mind you, but the audio quality of the vinyl. It stunk. This was

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 18h

Random music news for Saturday, October 11, 2025 #musicnews

Random music news for Saturday, October 11, 2025

Look out below! Elmo’s Starlink satellites keep falling out of the sky. Music news for October 11, 2025, however, is perfectly safe. BONUS: I love a good burger as much as the next

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI: Now it’s Blue Öyster Cult vs. Donald Trump over an unhinged parody of “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper” #musicnews

Now it’s Blue Öyster Cult vs. Donald Trump over an unhinged parody of “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper”

There was a time when being the President of the United States was a serious job for serious people. The goal was to serve all citizens, play by the rules of honour, follow

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI: More AI artists are starting to get record deals #musicnews

More AI artists are starting to get record deals

Bleeding Verse, an AI band with nearly a million monthly listeners, has a new “creative deal” with a company called Hallwood Media, the product of Neil Jacobson, who used to be an executive

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI: Ongoing History Daily: Whither the famous CBGB street awning? #musicnews

Ongoing History Daily: Whither the famous CBGB street awning?

The most famous (and probably the most important) punk club in all music history was CBGB, a crappy place with horrific bathrooms at 315 Bleeker Street in New York. Beginning in 1974, this

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 19h

ICYMI: Random music for Wednesday, October 8, 2025 #musicnews

Random music for Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Tired of your computer keyboard? Could it be improved in any way? How about like this? Um… Moving to music news for October 8, 2025… BONUS: Can you pick up radio stations with

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

Taylor Swift broke the one week album sales record in the US. HOWEVER… #musicnews

Taylor Swift broke the one week album sales record in the US. HOWEVER…

When we heard that Taylor Swift sold 2.7 million copies of Life of a Showgirl on its first day on sale with 2.7 million copies (and here’s the sneaky way she did it),

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA has announced its own Super Bowl halftime show #musicnews

MAGA has announced its own Super Bowl halftime show

MAGA has been melting down since it was announced that Bad Bunny would be the halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl in February. Their complaints: Now Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk’s organization, says

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: Spotify has a new deal with ChatGPT. Here’s what that means. #musicnews

Spotify has a new deal with ChatGPT. Here’s what that means.

Yesterday, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the people behind ChatGPT, said that more than 800 million people are using its AI services every month. That works to “six billion tokens per minute”–whatever

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: What are the most anticipated concerts and tours of 2026? #musicnews

What are the most anticipated concerts and tours of 2026?

Now that we’re into the second week of October, there’s not much left of the 2025 touring season. Things will be pretty much wrapped up for the Christmas break by the time we

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: Trump isn’t going to like this AI music video #musicnews

Trump isn’t going to like this AI music video

Trump’s thin orange skin is going to shrivel when he sees this. Please enjoy. (Via Oreo)

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

How did Taylor Swift manage to sell 2.7 million copies of her new album in a single day? I’ll tell you. #musicnews

How did Taylor Swift manage to sell 2.7 million copies of her new album in a single day? I’ll tell you.

The news earlier this week was that Taylor Swift managed to move 2.7 million copies of her new album, Life of a Showgirl, the highest-ever first-day sales number. How did she do it?

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: Ongoing History Daily: Can music be used to predict the stock market? #musicnews

Ongoing History Daily: Can music be used to predict the stock market?

People who play the stock market are always looking for an edge. Can music be used to predict the way the market will go? Dr. Philip Maymin was an assistant professor of finance

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1058: Stories behind iconic album covers, part 2 #musicnews

The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1058: Stories behind iconic album covers, part 2

In 1938, a 23-year-old graphic designer named Alex Steinweiss was hired as the first-ever art director for Columbia Records in New York. He was assigned a project: to help promote a new release

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

Ongoing History Daily: Eddie Vedder repays a favour #musicnews

Ongoing History Daily: Eddie Vedder repays a favour

About a decade ago, Eddie Vedder was out boating with some friends in the Pailolo Channel off the coast of Maui when their craft overturned, leaving Eddie and two women stranded. They were

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: Random music news for Tuesday, October 7, 2025 #musicnews

Random music news for Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Imagine being the Guinness Book of World Records official who had to certify this. Now that you’re grossed out, here’s music news for October 7, 2025. BONUS: Wait. Is grandma doing gak?

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 1d

Random music news for Friday, October 10, 2025 #musicnews

Random music news for Friday, October 10, 2025

A fan of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses? Then you might like this special ranking. Or maybe not. Either way, here’s music news for October 10, 2025. BONUS: A disco cover of one of

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: Rush announces a new tour. WAIT–WHAT? #musicnews

Rush announces a new tour. WAIT–WHAT?

This was not an announcement anyone was expecting to start the week. When Neil Peart died, the general consensus among everyone–including Geddy and Alex–was that Rush was done. They’d been a team since

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d

Time for the weekly Canadian CD, vinyl, and streaming report (09 Oct 2025) #musicnews

Time for the weekly Canadian CD, vinyl, and streaming report (09 Oct 2025)

Back to the normal schedule of reporting on the weekly sales of CDs and vinyl in Canada long with a look at what we’re streaming. All figures courtesy of Luminate. Streaming numbers:

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d

Photos and a review of Queens of the Stone Age at Massey Hall in Toronto #musicnews

Photos and a review of Queens of the Stone Age at Massey Hall in Toronto

[Stephanie Snape covered things for us with both the photos and the review. – AC] Sunday night, the red lights that read “Massey Hall” glowed bright against the faces of the people lined

Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 2d

Before you click on the new Rolling Stone list of the 250 best songs of the millennium so far, read this. #musicnews

Before you click on the new Rolling Stone list of the 250 best songs of the millennium so far, read this.

Rolling Stone has released another one of its “greatest” lists, this time focusing on the best songs released so far in the 21st century. This is, of course, clickbait designed to get people