Musical Taste Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Random music news for Saturday, July 23, 2022

Why would a robot dog with a machine gun bother anyone? Oh, right. More indications of the dystopian future ahead.

There’s a study from the psychology department at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. They studied the personalities of 36,000 music fans

No one likes to be discriminated against, which is why people are disturbed by a form of discrimination called “playlistism.”

It used to be that judging a person by what music they listen to was considered to be a form

It can be really tough to be in a relationship with someone who doesn’t share your taste in music. How

Dating is hard. Maintaining a serious relationship is even harder. Sure, you probably have plenty of things in common. But

Is musical taste nature or nurture? For me, it’s gotta be nature because my parents have terrible taste in music.

Looking back on my upbringing, I really shouldn’t have ended up in radio or the music business. Sorry Mom and

May 20, 2016 Alan Cross 1 Comment Musical Taste

We all fight about music because everyone has an opinion about it. But is there more to these fights than

We’ve all done it: judged someone’s personality by what kind of music they like. Is that a valid way to

If you were to create a Venn diagram describing the musical tastes of me and my sister, there would be

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
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