Stone Temple Pilots Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Stone Temple Pilots release an expanded 25th-anniversary edition of the Purple album

I recall being rather shocked the day when Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple came into the radio station in the spring

Building and maintaining a band is a lot like building and maintain a sports team. You struggle and wheel-and-deal and

You have music you don’t know about and never asked for. And no, I’m not talking about a U2 album.

The community of musicians is like any other. While most people are good, you will have your bad actors: musicians

[NOTE: I’m on vacation this week, so there will probably be fewer postings than usual. – AC] Eight years ago

What if you could own a piece of your favourite song? And you get a piece of the musician’s royalty

Do Toronto newspapers have the absolute worst comics sections in all of North America? It’s embarrassing, really. Now let’s look

The Stone Temple Pilots have just released their first single with their new singer. This came out around 7 am

According to one group, a new US civil war is supposed to start today. Meanwhile, in music news for November

I’m already looking forward to the hour of extra sleep this weekend. But seriously: we should just get rid of

Early last year, Stone Temple Pilots launched an open audition for a new singer. After going through thousands of submissions

The Genius of Live Sports Production – Paul Graham In Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 013 December 1, 2020
The best live sports executive producers are a blend of genius, in both art and science. Whether we realize it or not, as viewers, we are of course more deeply engaged in cliffhangers. Match outcomes that keep us tuned in until the very end. That is where the executive producer shines. The research and preparation […]
Mark Silver
Intimate Gatherings of Sports Fans and Media Personalities – Kevin Kennedy in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 012 November 25, 2020
No matter the sport, passionate fans and pundits have long debated the goings-on in the clubhouse or on the pitch of every pro sports team. For most of us, this dialogue and discord are limited to Twitter, or perhaps yelling at sports talk radio hosts in our cars. If you were paying slightly more attention, […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Independent Production – Don Young in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 011 November 18, 2020
Canadians have long heard about Canadian content, aka CanCon. What most outside of the broadcast business don’t generally realize is that much of that content is actually subsidized by the private broadcasters, such as Bell Media and Rogers Media. Many independent producers have made a career, and a lot of money, perfecting the art of […]
Mark Silver