Music Video Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Paul McCartney has been “de-aged” by software for this new video. Watch.

Paul McCartney is 79 years old. He’s looking good for his age, so that may have made this software voodoo

Montreal band Suuns remembers those 90s-era art pieces that could only be resolved by letting your eyes go blurry. They’ve

Back in the day when music videos held sell billions of CDs, artists were willing to do almost anything to

OK Go never takes the easy route when it comes to making music videos. Here’s another example of their ingenuity.

If you’ve ever wanted to be in a music video, a new opportunity has come up courtesy of Rough Trade’s

I don’t know where to begin. Love the super-accurate closed captioning, too. I thought at first it was a foreign

Not the whistling bit. The stuff that comes after. (Via Danny)

COVID-19 restrictions have meant big reductions in traffic, which has been a boon for cyclists. Richard Vaughan, a Toronto singer-songwriter,

Like everyone else, blink-182 has to balancing moving forward with doing the right thing when it comes to containing the

The staycation continues. How much have I accomplished with that list of things I was planning to do around the

If you’ve ever listened to the mostly instrumental “Corporation” off of Jack White’s 2018 album Boarding House Reach and thought

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 […]
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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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