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Random music news for Friday, May 7, 2021

Microsoft to Calibri: “Buh-bye.” The company now needs help choosing a new default font. Consider that while you browse music

Apparently Popeye was right. Who knew? Let’s try some music news for Saturday, March 27, 2021. The Talk to Sharon

Everyone seems to be diving into the non-fungible token craze, something that’s only going to weirder after Beeple, a visual

On this day in 1956, the IBM 305 RAMAC computer was introduced, the first machine with a hard disk drive.

Notice how more people are referring to Donald Trump as “45” instead of “President Trump?” No? Watch for it. And

When Deadmau5 builds a home studio, he builds a home studio. Let’s take a tour.

One more sleep until the long weekend. But you’ve already mentally checked out, haven’t you? Kill some time with these

It was on this day that the Beatles performed in public for the last time. It was a 42-minute rooftop

If Jeff Buckley were still alive, be would have turned 50 today. And in music news… There are more rumours

We’ve come a long way since Delores Claiborne wrote the Hockey Night in Canada theme. For Saturday night’s Toronto Maple

Happy anniversary, dear. And now, music news. Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock was involved in a car crash after falling asleep

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