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Random music news for Tuesday, February 19, 2019

I rolled up the rim to win and all I got was four more weeks of winter. Now all I

The Sunday New York Times featured a cover story in the Arts & Entertainment section on the new Beastie Boys

Lorde was this weekend’s cover story in the New York Times Magazine. She’s just twenty years old and there are

The New York Times Magazine is put to bed a week before it’s delivered with the Sunday paper, so this

Back home after a trip to the Far East. My body is here but my soul is still in transit

The New York State Assembly voted last week to make the use of ticket-buying bots a criminal offense. It’s illegal

This appeared in the New York Times today. Words … I love words and phrases, maybe because I’m a songwriter.

When Phil Collins first started releasing records outside of Genesis 35 years ago, rock fans were pretty cool about it,

On this day in 1973, Elvis Presley’s live broadcast from a Hawaii set a record for the most-watched show ever

Gamifying the Movie Theatre Experience – Aaron Silverberg in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 031 May 9, 2021
People yearn for live experiences that they can share with others. Though fan and crowd-based events such as sports and concerts may be the source of most of our FOMO, movie theatres are even more appealing. Although the film may be the main attraction, movie theatre owners are constantly looking for new ways to maximize […]
Mark Silver
Revenue Architects… Beyond the : 30-second spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
Mark Silver
King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
Mark Silver