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Weird album alert: White noise based on the periodic table

You gotta love the UK’s The Pocket Gods. They are raging against the streaming machine by messing with Spotify’s algorithms

Dave Grohl is doing a whack of interviews to chat up the release of his new memoir, The Storyteller: Tales

Shakira was walking with her son through a park in Barcelona when the trouble struck. Two wild boars came out

I’ve been tearing through all the books about the Trump presidency (I’m currently on Peril, the Woodward/Costa book, which is

Er, okay. Just stay away from me.

I think I’ve got this right. Nicki isn’t getting a COVID vaccine because a friend of her cousin in Trinidad

This past weekend, Full Terror Assault, a thrash metal band, played a set at Cave-in-Rock, Illinois, opening for Exodus. And

The rich are not like the rest of us. And there are plenty of companies that are happy to indulge

Lil Uzi Vert’s forehead diamond–a 10-carat pink rock worth US$24 million–is so weird that it’s hard to imagine something even

Lil Uzi Vert, the Philadelphia-based rapper who parades around with a US$24 million dollar 10-carat pink diamond embedded in his

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Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver