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Random Music News for Monday, October 30, 2017

All Hallow’s Eve Eve? Sure. Let’s go with that. And now some music news for October 30. Chrissie Hynde of

One of the great things about vinyl is the sheer square footages of the packaging. A minimum, a vinyl record

I love pop culture mashups. Thanks to Andy Roberts, who sent us the link, we can all enjoy this beautiful

The American Thanksgiving weekend can be a sparse time for music news. Not around here, though. You just gotta dig

The Smiths paid an awful lot of attention to the images they wanted to adorn their albums and singles. The

Is this the last week of July? Already? Here’s some music news to start the week. Bobbi Kristina Brown died

Back in the pre-digital days, the album cover was an endless source of wonder for me. I’d stare at something

There have been plenty of good books on album cover artwork, but to my knowledge there has never been one

Here’s a fun gallery from Behance.net. What if classic metal album cover artwork was re-imagined in the style of retro

One of the many nice things about the vinyl resurrection is that people are once again starting to pay attention

If you remember gazing at a 12×12 piece of album artworking wondering what it all meant, then this article from

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