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Check out this US$1.8 billion spherical concert venue being built in Las Vegas

Most buildings have straight lines. This one doesn’t have any. The somewhat oddly named Madison Square Garden Sphere, now under

A COVID vaccine in a pill? We could be close to one. Consider that as we go through music news

It was eleven years ago today that Sully Sullivan landed that airliner in the Hudson River. Moving to music news

Las Vegas is always looking for ways to part people from their money, especially those who (temporarily) beat the house.

Is it just me or are you getting more spam calls on your mobile phone and/or land line? I’m averaging

It was 50 years ago today that Apollo 12 landed on the moon. Then we have music news for November

January is half over. That’s the kind of thing I’m holding onto right about now. The average Spotify users pays

And how was our first weekend with legal weed? In any shape to look at music news for October 22,

Still no societal collapse in Canada following the legalization of weed. You know, if we do this right, we can

On October 1, 2017, not long into Jason Aldean’s nighttime set at the Route 91 Music Festival in Las Vegas,

I spent the weekend at the Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas (i.e. not the modern Strip

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