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Random Music News for Friday, April 21, 2017

We lost Prince a year ago today–and we haven’t heard the end of this story. Not by a long shot.

Artist: The Amazons, “Black Magic” Album: The Amazons This Reading, England band has a big following Sounds like: exactly what

I had the 1-800-GOT-JUNK people haul away a bunch of stuff from my basement yesterday, basically giving the house a

Next year will be the fifth year of uninterrupted Top 11 Playlists, a weekly set of recommendations of songs that for

Some strange stuff this week: a couple of covers, a Christmas tune, a Marxist tirade against capitalism and perhaps my

Just in time for the long weekend, here are eleven fresh songs I hand-picked from the hundreds of submissions that

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