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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

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