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Random music news for Saturday, September 8, 2018

Still in Vancouver at the Skookum Festival. Having a good time. Wish you were here. And now, some music news

Movies are getting rebooted and remade all the time, so it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that

Today is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Church of Satan. The album cycle isn’t dead yet, but

Today is the National Day of Mourning in Canada, which is when we take a moment to remember people who

The First Avenue Nightclub in Minneapolis–a Prince hangout and made famous in Purple Rain–had an issue last night. Theory of

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