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Did Bowie Know Something About Spiders From Mars Before NASA?

The latest round of good fun on the interwebs comes courtesy of NASA with a shout out to David Bowie!

Dublin is holding their third annual Bowie Festival in January. January 8th would have been David Bowie’s 71st birthday. The

This is very cool! The continued access to interesting bits of David Bowie’s career continues. I expect that will a

It took me a few days to wrap my head around the death of Chris Cornell last Thursday. This is

For years after his death in August 1977, the estate of Elvis Presley earned hundreds of millions of dollars flogging

In recent interview with NME, Jared Leto spoke of David Bowie, the man, not the music, as being a serious

Many of you will recall the brief outing David Bowie had in a side project called Tin Machine. Rolling Stone

Bowie fans will get a treat in an upcoming episode of BBC4’s The People’s History of Pop. Several rarities are

We seem to be living in a time, if you are of a certain age, where the musical pillars upon

Covers are so hit and miss. But every once in a while, something really makes you smile. This is from

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