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Random music news for Thursday, September 16, 2021

Maybe this is my problem. Anyone got some good bacteria? Moving to music news for September 16, 2021… There will

It’s Memorial Day in the US but music news never sleeps, you know? Here’s what’s happening for May 31, 2021.

Fun fact: Chinese couples are clamoring to get married next Sunday because the Chinese characters for that date (20210314) look

Got a nutty friend who believes in QAnon? Better read this. Once you absorb that, move on to music news

On this day in 1986, the first-ever PC virus. (c)Brain, was released into the wild. As for music news on

One more month and this awful year will be behind us. And now, in music news… Kanye has left the

Usually when we imagine bands and musicians recording their latest albums, we envision them in a recording studio with a

Here’s King Buzzo from the Melvins to explain something that Mike Patton of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle did.

One of the most contentious music stories of the past week involved this chart that purported to rank the singers

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