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Random music news for Saturday, May 26, 2018

NO MORE GDPR EMAILS! PLEASE! I don’t even subscribe to 75% of these newsletters! And now, for music news on

The biggest music story in America this week has to be the continuing kerfuffle around NFL players taking a knee

Maybe all Fergie’s take on the national anthem needs is a better backing track.

The tsunami that is social media just won’t let it go. Chatter about Fergie’s, er, unique rendition of “The Star-Spangled

Sometime around 8pm ET, Justin Timberlake will get his 12-and-a-half minutes in front of about 100 million people for the

In the UK for the weekend with a visit to the Pink Floyd exhibit at the V&A museum tomorrow. And

When someone is asked to sing a national anthem before an event, so many terrible things can happen. Take a

Apollo 11 was launched towards the moon on this day in 1969. No, it wasn’t faked. And now, the music

No one will be able to replicate the conditions under which Jimi Hendrix performed “The Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock”–that could

Well, maybe he isn’t–but he didn’t mind performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Saturday’s Kings-Hawks game.

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