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RIP Richard Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire

If you’re were at all into the heavier side of electronic music, then you’ll have inevitably run into Cabaret Voltaire,

Lee “Scratch” Perry was one of the most influential and at the same time one of the weirdest dudes to

pic.twitter.com/YUR6lckf8k — Keith Richards (@officialKeef) August 24, 2021 Fans had a feeling that something was very wrong when it was

When I arrived at CFNY on October 3, 1986, one of the first people I encountered in the halls was

Dusty Hill, the bass player for ZZ Top for more than 50 years has died. He was 72. Billy Gibbons

Joey Jordison was with the rest of the guys in Des Moines, Iowa when Slipknot first came together in 1995.

If you spent hours watching music videos in back in the 80s, the clip for Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again”

Jim Steinman, who had a long, LONG string of hits writing for Meat Loaf to Celine Dion to Sisters of

A week after he was first hospitalized for a heart attack brought on by a suspected drug overdose (that has

Although he had many roles, most people will remember Yaphet Kotto as the scary Mr. Big in Live and Let

This is the BEST! This good boy is having the best day Now some music news for December 28, 2020.

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