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60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music 2022 Edition

60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music 2022 Edition

FromOngoing History of New Music


60 Mind-Blowing Facts About Music 2022 Edition

FromOngoing History of New Music

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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Dec 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Well, it’s that time again...another year is almost at an end—and once again, we have been subjected to the whims of the universe and human stupidity through 2022...
It got better with covid but then we have the war in Ukraine...politics are more polarized than ever no matter where you go...social media is still making us stupider...and try as he might to leave the planet, Elon Musk is still here...
When it comes to the world of music, we lost Taylor Hawkins, Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode, Paul Ryder of The Happy Mondays, Mark Lanegan, Dallas Good of The Sadies, Meat Loaf, Ronnie Hawkins, Coolio, Olivia Newton-John, and Ronnie Spector, among others...
It’s still hard to make a living from streaming, artists are getting burned out on the road, and inflation is killing everyone...
That’s a lot to deal with...here’s hoping that 2023 will be better...we gotta think that because otherwise, we’d go crazy...
This is also the time of year I try to clean up the home office where I do all my “ongoing history” research and writing and production...I’m always looking for interesting and cool stuff to talk about when it comes to anything related to music...when I have enough material on a particular subject, I can write a new episode...
But there’s also a lot of orphaned material—research that has gone unused because I couldn’t find a place for it for whatever reason...it would be a shame for all this knowledge and trivia and factoids to go to waste, so it’s time for the annual purge...
So watch out...a lot of information is about to dumped on your...this is the 2022 edition of 60 mind-blowing facts about music...
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Released:
Dec 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Ongoing History of New Music looks at things from the alt-rock universe to hip hop, from artist profiles to various thematic explorations. It is Canada’s most well known music documentary hosted by the legendary Alan Cross. Whatever the episode, you’re definitely going to learn something that you might not find anywhere else. Trust us on this.