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Random music news for Friday, May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018May 3, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cold War, Dame Vera Lynn, E, Ecstasy, Facebook, Fleetwood Mac, Gaming, Google, Jazz, Kanye West, Kurt Cobain, Lindsey Buckingham, MDMA, Paulina Porizkova, Ric Ocasek, Taylor Swift, Van Morrison, YouTube

I just can’t stop staring at the car crash that is the Trump administration. It’s better than any TV show,

Music News

The Cold War Weirdness of Radio Swan

November 30, 2015December 1, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments CIA, Cold War, Gibraltar Steamship Company, Honduras, Radio Swan

Before the Internet came along to distract me, I often sat up late at night with my Sony ICF-7600W shortwave

Music History

Ex-KGB Agent: “We Financed UK Punk to Destabilize the West”

June 18, 2015June 17, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cold War, Conspiracy, KGB

As tinfoil hat conspiracies go, this is a good one. Roland points us to this article at LouderThanWar: Not so

Podcast

Geeks&Beats Episode 89: We’re Back! Hello, 2015.

January 14, 2015January 14, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment autonomous cars, Bono, Cold War, Consumer Electronics Show, earthquakes, Elvis Presley, Federal Communications Commission, Manchester Orchestra, Music Piracy, Net Neutrality, Numbers Stations, Rivet, Scotch, Soju, Spying, The Americans, Tom Wheeler, tricycle, trike, U2, William Shatner

After taking the last half of December off to investigate new and exotic forms of vodka (you’ll hear about it

Music History

November 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall Comes Down

November 8, 2014November 8, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment Berlin Wall, Cold War, Iron Curtain

Twenty-five years ago–November 9, 1989–the barrier known officially as the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart by East Germany–stopped being a wall. Through

Music History

A Brief History of Soviet Rock’n’Roll

April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cold War, Soft Power, Soviet Rock

I love stuff like this. From Radio Free Europe: A pro-Kremlin lawmaker spawned a tsunami of scorn in Russia this

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 […]
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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 […]
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The Custodian of Toronto Sports – Richard Peddie in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 033 May 27, 2021
Over a 20+ year span, as the Toronto pro sports scene evolved from older venues and stands filled with blue and white (Leafs, Blue Jays, Argonauts) to a more intense red (Raptors, TFC), and grand coliseums that define the city’s skyline, there is one sports executive in particular who ownership looked to. We’re of course […]
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