Darkness Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Random music news for Monday, November 16, 2020

Stupid sexy Flanders ass. One you investigate that, move on to music news for November 16, 2020. Coronavirus update: This

Looking to attract women? Then don’t include your cat in your dating profile. Hey, it’s science! You’re welcome. Now some

Ew. Gross. Now cleanse your mind from those images by browsing through music news for June 15, 2020. Radio folk

When I was in Hong Kong the other day, a guy in a shop asked where I was from. “Toronto,”

For reasons unknown to me, I’ve always had a fascination with alt-rock Christmas music. It’s some kind of (choose all

Here’s your last set of recommended tunes for November–and yes, I had to include some Christmas music because, well, it

The Darkness–who, by the way, released an excellent album entitled Last of Our Kind, one of my favourite hard-rockin’ records

We all have our quirks, right? This is mine. One of them, anyway. “Last of Our Kind” is the title

Sorry it’s a few hours late. I was somewhere over the north Pacific heading home from Tokyo. Thanks to Mediazoic

No falsettos this time, but there are plenty of homages to 80s-era rock. The Cult’s “She Sells Sanctuary” is obvious.

Intimate gatherings of sports fans and media personalities – Kevin Kennedy in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 012 November 25, 2020
No matter the sport, passionate fans and pundits have long debated the goings-on in the clubhouse or on the pitch of every pro sports team. For most of us, this dialogue and discord are limited to Twitter, or perhaps yelling at sports talk radio hosts in our cars. If you were paying slightly more attention, […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Independent Production – Don Young in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 011 November 18, 2020
Canadians have long heard about Canadian content, aka CanCon. What most outside of the broadcast business don’t generally realize is that much of that content is actually subsidized by the private broadcasters, such as Bell Media and Rogers Media. Many independent producers have made a career, and a lot of money, perfecting the art of […]
Mark Silver
Reaching new VR frontiers – Laura Mingail in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 010 November 10, 2020
Pushing boundaries and breaking with convention takes more than confidence, especially when you’re working inside a media giant. To do this in an authentic and meaningful way one needs to truly believe that they can make a difference, for the greater good. Laura Mingail has done just that in many of her roles, and as […]
Mark Silver