Torture Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Weekly survey: What songs would you use to torture a neighbour over a perceived slight?

Bill Gross is a tech billionaire annoyed with his tech entrepreneur neighbour, Mark Towfiq. At issue is a glass sculpture

If you end up in jail Oklahoma, don’t expect to be a cushy experience. Take the case of inmates at

A new book called The Penguin Book of Hell has a chapter about the music American interrogators use at detention

The story of Jamal Khashoggi’s death keeps getting more and more horrible. On October 1, he walked into the Saudi

TheConversation takes a look at the times throughout history when music was used for evil purposes. There is of course

Music can inspire and invigorate. It can also be used to inflict harm and even kill. The New Yorker takes

The Guardian reports on the work of Morag Grant and Susan Cusick who shed light on the use of music

Scientology is under attack again, this time from a new documentary entitled Going Clear. In a story called “16 Shocking

My wife has a cold. This isn’t good. Why did Stephen Colbert choose “Holland 1945” by Neutral Milk Hotel to

Earlier this week, the US government opened up its files on how various agencies have used torture to excise information

While many of us may believe that listening to any of Bieber’s music is torture, let’s get real. And let’s

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