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Random music news for Saturday, November 24, 2018

It was 55 years ago today that Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald dead thereby cementing the “who killed JFK”

Laibach, the heavy industrial act from Slovenia (est. 1980), was weird to begin with. But when they announced they were

The decision to hold back a bunch of secret JFK assassination documents have me pissed. One theory I’ve heard (and

Do NOT believe anything about that “double moon” bullshit for tonight. But when it comes to music news, you can

The Koreas lobbing shells at each other over the DMZ this week, Laibach was in Pyongyang to become the first-ever

Laibach dropped into my consciousness in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the

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 […]
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