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The Ongoing History of New Music Encore Presentation: Great Lost Albums

Making an album is straightforward, right? You write some song, go into a studio and a few months later, something

[Gilles LeBlanc has been following the story about the anonymous rape allegations against Maynard James Keenan of Tool/A Perfect Circle.

Don’t you love it when artists take extra care when it comes to packaging a new release? Take the case

Yesterday (April 20), A Perfect Circle released its first album in more than 13 years. While Maynard James Keenan doesn’t

I’m sure it’s a complete coincidence that the first A Perfect Circle album in 14 years is set for release

It’s a given that any band headed up by Maynard James Keenan will come up with interesting ways to promote

Tool hasn’t released an album since 2006, but Maynard James Keenan’s other band, A Perfect Circle, has been absent from

Tool drummer Danny Carey went on the record last week saying that there will “definitely” be a Tool album in

This was a momentous day for music in 1954. Texas Instruments introduced the first-ever transistor radio: the Regency TR-1. And

It’s been more than eleven years since Tool released an album of new material, but we haven’t seen a full

It was on this day that The Pill was approved for use in the US. That didn’t change society much,

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