Damon Albarn Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Ongoing History Daily: Gorillaz comes together

Gorillaz would never have been a band had the two principal members, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, went through break-ups

Tired of all the NFT hype? Then you need one of these t-shirts. Sold. Let’s deal with some music news

Artist: Tom The Mail ManSong: NothingToLose Tom The Mail Man explains that this genre bending alt-rock song is “an anthem

Jeezus. These people are nuts. Ignore them and focus on music news for December 29, 2020, instead. That recorded voice

Want to be turned into an evil doll for Halloween? Try this site. Once you do that, come on back

Blur is still officially a going concern, but like that classic convertible in the garage, the members only take it

Happy 76th birthday, Paul McCartney! If you’ve never seen him live, do it. I swear that a Macca show has

Everyone needs a hobby, something to divert the mind from the pressures of day-to-day living. Even rockstars need hobbies. The

It was fifty-one years ago today that the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper in North America. It had come out the

The first regularly-scheduled transatlantic airline flight began on this date in 1951. El Al of Israel began flying a turboprop

Woke up in Nashville again. The amount of meat and fat available to the average person around here is mind-boggling.

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