Best Of Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

How will we remember the music of the 2010s? And what albums will we still love years from now?

With about three weeks to go in the decade, this is the time for retrospectives. In the case of music,

Because late is better than never, right? 2018 to me felt like the year of new emotion. It seems like

More year-end list fun. Both Spotify and Amazon Prime have published their lists of the most popular music of 2018.

Say hello to Andrew Huang who found a way to review all the top pop songs of 2014 using nothing

Overwhelmed by the oppressive number of year-end “best of” lists? To illustrate the point that year-end lists are like assholes,

Another good year-end list from Entertainment Weekly. The entire thing can be found here. THE BEST: “I eat my dinner

That Eric Alper apparently has lots of free time over the holidays because he’s been diligently compiling a list of

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