Iced Earth Archives | Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Metal guitarist will be the first US Capitol rioter to plead guilty

Back on January 6, Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer decided to join angry MAGAs, various militia groups, Proud Boys, Three

Let’s start your week with a disco crow. Now that’s done, here’s music news for March 29, 2021. No surprise

Interesting: Donald Trump’s personal 757 is parked and abandoned at a New York airport. Now some music news for March

How much oxygen do we have left? Oh. Think about that when you browse through music news for March 3,

No more Trump. I still can’t believe he was ever president. Here’s music news for a brand new era started

Gee, when you storm the seat of government bent on damage, mayhem, and worse–and when the whole thing was caught

That is ONE BIG SCREEN for a car dashboard. Want. As for music news for January 9, 2021… Still more

Now that we’re spending more time indoors, this is something you might have wondered about. Once you’ve solved that mystery,

Yes, it’s still early–but this one could be the winner of the year. Make of it what you will. Buy

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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The Ultimate Backstage Pass – David Kines in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 032 May 17, 2021
In today’s everything-on-demand world, it may be hard for anyone born post-Y2 K to answer a simple question, “where do you watch music videos?” A reasonable answer would be YouTube, Apple Music, or maybe even Tiktok. Prior to the dawn of YouTube in 2005, the answer was easy. MTV if you’re American, and of course […]
Mark Silver