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Random music news for Thursday, October 21, 2021

Tired of music memorabilia? How about space memorabilia? Let’s get down to business with music news for October 21, 2021.

If Alan McGee were a character in a novel about the record industry, publishers would reject the manuscript on the

Back in the late 90s, Mark Armstrong was living in Britain and was an unemployed civil servant. To pass the

Between 1994 and 1996, Oasis was on one of the greatest rocket rides in the history of music. They went

Yep, it’s September. Fortunately, Labour Day is late this year. That’s something, right? Here’s what I have for music news

Oasis went from being a bunch of unknown yobbos from Manchester to playing in front of hundreds of thousands of

I ordered this shirt. This way people won’t be afraid of me yet will still stay away. Moving on to

This comes from Radio X in the UK. Good sport, that Noel.

This January 6 Capitol rioter admits that he had a plan to destroy the internet by bombing Amazon servers. Craziness.

That is one valuable motorcycle. Now get your motor runnin’ (sorry) with music news for May 27, 2021. Marilyn Manson

Schmooze, the elder English bull terrier is now 13. She’s a little hung over from the party but otherwise fine.

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