Liz Phair Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Liz Phair may be the first artist to record a song using Twitter’s brand new audio tweet feature

In what may be a very good or very bad idea, Twitter is rolling out “audio tweets,” a chance to

My hair has turned into a reverse mullet with all the party at the front. Soon I may have no

It was on this day in 1956 that Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. Fast-forward

In a less-enlightened time, women were barely tolerated by the rock’n’roll establishment. They could sing, maybe shake a tambourine and

If you pay attention to long-term cyclical trends in music, you could have predicted this was going to happen. When

My beloved Saeco coffee machine gave up the ghost this morning after almost two decades of faithful service. It’s so

Making “The End of The Storm” – James Erskine in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 026 March 24, 2021
This week’s guest — director James Erskine — joins us from England where he has just released his latest feature-length documentary, The End of The Storm. The documentary follows Liverpool Football Club and their fans as they navigate the covid-interrupted 2019-2020 Premier League winning season. James expertly weaves together the voice of Jürgen Klopp, the […]
Andrew Dick
Inside the Toronto Sports Media Scene – Jonah Sigel in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 025 March 17, 2021
Being a Toronto sports fan hasn’t been easy for many generations of Torontonians. Of course, the Raptors NBA title was kind of a reset for the city, and there were a couple of crazy Blue Jays runs a few years back, but those were more so the Toronto sports awakening for Millenials. For Gen X, […]
Mark Silver
In a League of Her Own – Mary Ellen Carlyle in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 024 March 10, 2021
Dome Productions is a relatively unknown company. Anyone who has walked by Gate 13 at Rogers Centre while attending a Toronto Blue Jays game has likely missed the small Dome Productions office sign, which looks more like a cornerstone time-capsule on the building’s facade. However, there’s a good reason you’ve never heard of Dome. They […]
Mark Silver