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Random music news for Thursday, January 28, 2021

Need a nap after lunch? You will be doing your boss a favour (and yourself, too). I have a quick

This is Blue Monday, right? It’s supposedly the most depressing day of the year. Hopefully, it’s at least sunny where

I’ll bet you’re expecting an opening link to something Halloween related. Nope. This is much more interesting. And so is

The album has been the main currency of the recorded music industry since about 1965 when it took over from

There will be plenty of unexpected and unintended consequences from the coronavirus pandemic. There will be few areas of our

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Once upon a time, there was a complicated decades-long ritual involved

Deezer, the France-based streaming music service, is always studying how people listen top music. They just completed a survey on

Did you listen to any albums over the weekend. By that I mean listening to an album from track one

Back in the days of vinyl albums, people tended to listen to records all the way through. We’d start with

For more than 50 years, the entire recorded music industry has been based on selling us albums. Although Columbia introduced

October 25, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Albums

Much has been written about the traditional long-playing album’s death, a casualty of the rise of streaming music services. Single

Delivering Reach for the Biggest Brands – Alan Dark in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 027 April 12, 2021
In a world obsessed with digital and mobile engagement, as well as the rise of subscription streaming entertainment services, like Netflix and now Disney+, it’s easy to overlook the going’s on in the broadcast media business. The reality is, the 75-year-old business is having a moment. Perhaps it is due, in part, to a global […]
Mark Silver
Making “The End of The Storm” – James Erskine in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 026 March 24, 2021
This week’s guest — director James Erskine — joins us from England where he has just released his latest feature-length documentary, The End of The Storm. The documentary follows Liverpool Football Club and their fans as they navigate the covid-interrupted 2019-2020 Premier League winning season. James expertly weaves together the voice of Jürgen Klopp, the […]
Andrew Dick
Inside the Toronto Sports Media Scene – Jonah Sigel in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 025 March 17, 2021
Being a Toronto sports fan hasn’t been easy for many generations of Torontonians. Of course, the Raptors NBA title was kind of a reset for the city, and there were a couple of crazy Blue Jays runs a few years back, but those were more so the Toronto sports awakening for Millenials. For Gen X, […]
Mark Silver