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These deliberately wrong band t-shirts will confuse/piss off your friends

At first glance, this looks like a proper Rage Against the Machine t-shirt. But look again. Here’s another. And there’s

CDs sales continue to crater, down 30% from where they were this time last year. Digital albums are down, too,

Here’s a post that will probably get a lot of flaming comments. There are those who believe that band t-shirts

My wife demanded that I go through my closet as part of a spring purge of clothes. This led to

The younger bull terrier had dental work this week. Relatives from the US tell me that our dogs have better

Have you gone digital with your music? Do you miss the liner notes we used to get with CDs and

Hey, I’d buy one. There’s a whole gallery of this goodness at Dangerous Minds.

…they’d look like this. More at The Village Voice.

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
The Custodian of Toronto Sports – Richard Peddie in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 033 May 27, 2021
Over a 20+ year span, as the Toronto pro sports scene evolved from older venues and stands filled with blue and white (Leafs, Blue Jays, Argonauts) to a more intense red (Raptors, TFC), and grand coliseums that define the city’s skyline, there is one sports executive in particular who ownership looked to. We’re of course […]
Mark Silver
The Ultimate Backstage Pass – David Kines in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 032 May 17, 2021
In today’s everything-on-demand world, it may be hard for anyone born post-Y2 K to answer a simple question, “where do you watch music videos?” A reasonable answer would be YouTube, Apple Music, or maybe even Tiktok. Prior to the dawn of YouTube in 2005, the answer was easy. MTV if you’re American, and of course […]
Mark Silver