Ariana Grande Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Michigan Republican politician calls out singers for being tools of the devil

Meet Kristina Karamo, a Republican candidate for Secretary of State in Michigan. She has some interesting ideas about how the

Just for fun, let’s start with Tom Petty on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Damn the (photon) torpedos? (Give

It’s been almost a year since most of our lives hit a hard pause, including the ability to go to

If you’ve been getting creative and working out at home during this (good grief will it ever end) pandemic, newly

That’s it. I’m never ordering fries and Diet Coke together again. Instead, I’ll just focus on music news for March

Back on this side of the Atlantic for a while after my Beatles assignment. More on that anon. Meanwhile, here’s

NASA is employing Ariana Grande to attract women to the space program. I quote: “As we look forward to sending

The elder bull terrier has leaf mold allergies again. That’s another $500. Enough of that, though. Let’s do music news

Back to school, back to work. The next three months are, as usual, going to be insane. Here’s music news

YouTube won’t be helping musicians track down and demand payment from people who use tiny snippets of their music –

June already. It would be nice if spring finally arrived in some parts of Canada. On to music news for

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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