Butch Vig Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Producer Butch Vig Remembers the Drama of Making Siamese Dream with the Smashing Pumpkins

For many, Siamese Dream is the best album from the Smashing Pumpkins. According to producer Butch Vig, though, this record

Twenty-six years ago this month, DGC Records was in the final stages of preparing the release of Nevermind, the major

As I type this, Kanye West is in hospital in LA, apparently under a psychiatric hold after an incident at

On September 24, 1991, DGC dropped a recorded called Nevermind into the stores, shipping exactly 46,521 copies to stores around

This will be hard to believe for people of a certain age, but Nirvana’s Nevermind turns 25 this September. The

Madison, Wisconsin, isn’t the place where you’d expect to find a world-famous recording studio. And frankly, from the outside it

Butch Vig has been thinking. “If Dave Grohl can make a movie about Sound City in LA, then why can’t

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 […]
Andrew Dick
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