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Random music news for Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Happy 153rd, Canada. Here’s what’s happening in music news for July 1, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: Not music-related but fun.

The music festival is hardly a recent creation. People have been gathering in fields to hear music for centuries. In

The horrible attack on defenseless concertgoers in Manchester Monday night will go down in history as one of the worst

Hey, has anyone heard from Kelleyanne Conway recently? Just wondering. And now, the music news. Brian Johnson of AC/DC has

Usually it’s the other way around: lots of beer = lots of urine. But leave it to the crafty ecologically-conscious

That must have been a good gig at Roskilde in Denmark. Damon Albarn and his collective known as African Express

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