A singer who was not Alessia was booed for a Canadian National Anthem performance. She's being misidentified in the daily mail, and the express as Alessia.
Famous popstar booed over national anthem as fans outraged | Football | Sport | Express.co.uk
I had one today. For a few years I've been listening through the catalog of different artists. I decided that after the 400th artist (Jenna Raine) I'd start going through the list, and relistening to an album from most of the artists.
I started with the top with Absolutely (RAYE's sister Abby Keane) and relistened to her 2026 album, then when I got to the 2nd artist on the list, Achillea whose last album had been from 2006, I saw that they had two 2026 albums that I'd missed. Two albums after a 20-year gap that I might never have been aware of without doing this. And this is only with the 2nd artist out of 400.
I look through the list of new albums on Apple Music each week, and it shows me a lot of albums, but there are a lot it doesn't show also.
Anyway that's my unexpected music discovery. What unexpected music discoveries have you made?
I got to see the best possible (IMO of course) Canadian music concert earlier in the month: Allison Russell opening for Sarah McLachlan. I took this photo from the part of Sarah's set when she brought Allison and crew onstage.
FWIW My top 3 Canadian musicians are Russell, McLachlan, and Loreena McKennitt. #4 is the very underrated Alessia Cara.
Any other fans of the music I like?
From her new album Gentlewoman that dropped today
one of my favorites from the '80s. Rediscovered her recently.
Consumer Reports earbud ratings are in the September-October 2026 issue
Only 3 buds got their top rating for both sound quality and noise reduction:
Sony WF-1000XM6/B
Sony WF-1000XM5
Status Audio Pro X
I was surprised to see the top noise reduction rating for the Pixel Buds 2a & Pro 2, because I have Pixel Buds Pro 2, and it's the bud I wear most of the time. Except when I need strong ANC.
Ratings for each category range from a double down arrow to a double up arrow. There are only 5 levels from worse to better.
Router status says it has internet, and the PC connected to it via ethernet cable does.
Android phones & ipad all can connect, but say no internet. It was all working a couple of days ago. Used the router for years I think, and haven't changed anything.
I have power-cycled it. Even swapped it out for older router briefly. I have not done a hard reset, though I guess I would before scrapping it.
Anything I should check or try, short of a hard reset?
Olivia's new album Pixie was my favorite release of today (and I think it was a great new music day), but the song Written By a Man, was actually written by a man.
Olivia was the 3rd listed writer, and the second was also a woman. But the first listed writer was a man.
I don't know whether to be amused or disappointed. The song was good, so I'll go with amused.
Edited to add: I was wrong. I thought writers were listed in order of contribution, but it seems to be alphabetical so apparently it was mostly written by women.
I just started Medicare, and I have an IRMAA bill equal to my part B bill. Based on AGI from 2024. I don't work anymore, and my income has dropped. I thought that was a life-changing event that I could use to appeal.
But from a quick look at SSA-44 it appears that my AGI for the year will keep me in IRMAA, due to capital gains from earlier in the year (well before retiring and applying/qualifying for Medicare). I didn't go deep in and may have missed something.
Income is less now due to retirement, but it isn't clear I can appeal IRMAA. And next year when my AGI will be much less, I won't have a life changing event to appeal then?
I must be missing something. If I can't appeal it now, can't I do it next year, when my AGI will drop a lot.
Saw this today. Looks like a real 289 Cobra to me.
Today is a lighter than usual Friday for new music releases, but there were a couple of RnB albums.
I listened to Mare's new album Becoming first, and liked it well enough, but it was Ama's self-titled album that hit just right. Still playing, but this one is gonna get more listens.
Ama isn't the easiest name to search on Reddit, but I did find another mention of this album here.
Seanan McGuire's new Alchemical Journeys book. Are you reading it?
The first book seems well-loved here, but not everybody seems to love all the subsequent books as much as I do. Even if you stopped the series at some point, give this one a look.
My Replay All Time list is out of date. Seems like it hasn't updated in over a year.
Is it some old feature they did, and then forgot to keep current? Most of my Replay stuff makes sense, and for all I know could be correct, but not that.