Awkward Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Are You an Internet Star Wannabe? Don’t Be Like This Guy.

This short film captures exactly the kind of desperation we see with people who want to become and Internet star.

Yep. These made me cringe. Before these awkward celebrity pitch moments were allowed to happen, someone should have put up

When anyone asks me of the hundreds of artists interviews in my career, which was the worst? Easy: the Beautiful

Oh, dear. This isn’t some parody. It’s real life. Read how this wedding toast horror–this perfect, awesome horror–came to be

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