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Random music news for Thursday, July 22, 2021

Someone was bribed with a golden toilet? Over to music news for July 22, 2021. Chester Bennington’s widow posted this

If you’re an REM fan, you’ll want this new demo reissue. Spotify will start auto-transcribing podcasts over the next few

Angry about how governments are handling the coronavirus in Canada? Take a read of this. And what’s this GameStop stuff

New survey from ‘Murica: Americans would rather give up sex and Netflix instead of their pickups. Moving on to music

This infamous orgy club–i.e. a place where people gather to have sex with strangers–doesn’t seem worried about the coronavirus. Ew.

Before Chester Bennington moved to LA and fell in with the guys who would become Linkin Park, he was in

Why am I working on Christmas day? Great question. Here’s Ozzy’s Christmas playlist. Even Christmas songs are targets of copyright

There’s no way I’m going anywhere near a mall today. I’ll just end up behind someone who insists on backing

It was on this day in 1956 that Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. Fast-forward

Scott Stapp will forever be blamed for being part of Creed. But in the last few years, he’s been working

One of the last Linkin Park singles to feature Chester Bennington’s lead vocals was “One More Light” from the band’s

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