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Random music news for Thursday, June 14, 2018

Donald Trump’s friends are Russia, China, and North Korea. His enemies are Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. What’s wrong with

A federal court in Virginia ruled that an ISP could be held liable for one of its users sharing pirated

Muzit’s policy on people who download music without paying for it is kind of counter-intuitive: If you can’t beat it

Off to Winnipeg for Christmas. It’ll be very white. And now, the music news. Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst has been

Damn you, polar vortex! Bono has some good things to say about streaming. You know how some say Thom Yorke

You may have heard about Thom Yorke released his second solo album, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, on BitTorrent, asking for $6

When I was at the M for Montreal festival back in November, a highly placed source from the Bandcamp, er, camp

Shop, consumers, shop! (And for American readers confused as to why we Canadians seems to devote a shopping day to pugilism,

Remember that cryptic post by Thom Yorke earlier in the week? Turns out it was a foreshadow of something to

I’m almost ready to declare the new puppy house trained. Yay! Name the only band to ever perform a concert

I think 3D printing is super-cool, although I’m beginning to see parallels with the introduction of the fax machine back

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