Alan Cross, Author at Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Robert Fripp/Toyah Willcox’s Sunday Lunch covers The Prodigy

Is this the first time in the series where Robert actually dresses up? Lamb of God will be pleased with

If you spent hours watching music videos in back in the 80s, the clip for Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again”

There are a number of songs that profess to be the longest ever, including a bunch of AI-powered composition programs

In June 1948, Columbia Records shocked the recorded music industry by introducing a replacement for the venerable 10-inch 78 RPM

[Mike Carr has created a catalogue/reference work featuring all kinds of Canadian rock and alternative releases from the past few

Childish Gambino‘s (aka Donald Glover) “This Is America” is one of the most powerful songs and videos of the last

I’d never heard of Caught a Ghost before this week. They’re an LA indie band with exactly one album to

Need a vacation? Maybe you can volunteer to see if cruises are safe again. Over to music news for May

Sixteen years ago when I was program director at 102.1 the Edge/Toronto, we had Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland of

When Kurt Cobain was found dead on April 8, 1994, he’d already been lying in that room above a carriage

Higher power/space station. Got it. And then there’s the whole alien language thing that goes with the video. (Scroll down

Revenue Architects… Beyond the : 30-second spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
Mark Silver
King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
Mark Silver
Leading the pack in the Sports Betting Race – Jim Lawson in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 028 April 20, 2021
For several years, the legalization of single-event sports betting and the planned provincially controlled roll-out has been a hot topic. During that time, Woodbine Entertainment‘s astute executives have been watching and waiting while investing in the media and digital technologies that will be needed in a Canadian landscape where offshore behemoths are permitted to operate […]
Mark Silver