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Random music news for Thursday, July 16, 2020

It’s to the point where I want to stand on the border and yell into the US “GET IT TOGETHER,

On this day in 1965, the Beatles played Shea Stadium in New York. This was pretty much the birth of

We’re spending the weekend at my parents’ place, sleeping in my old bedroom. Mom’s happy. And now, the music news

A package showed up in the mailbox the other day: it was a five-disc set of The Conet Project, recordings

After taking the last half of December off to investigate new and exotic forms of vodka (you’ll hear about it

I’m fascinated by the mysterious broadcasts made by numbers stations (you can read more about them here and here). They

This comes from High Brow Magazine: Many nights, Spooks turn on their shortwave radios and drift through the frequencies. On

Watch this. The first of these sequences was uploaded on September 23 of last year. The uploads continued unabated, sometimes

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
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 […]
Mark Silver