Alan Cross, Author at Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox’s Sunday Lunch involves the Foo Fighters and… body painting.

I tune in each Sunday to see (a) what song Robert and Toyah cover and (b) Toyah’s costuming/performance. This week

Pollstar, the company that keeps tabs on the health of the live music industry, just released its mid-year report for

The recorded music industry doesn’t exactly have a sterling reputation when it comes to looking after the artists that supplies

Dave Grohl has been keeping a low public profile since his best friend and partner in crime, Taylor Hawkins, died

TikTok has unended much of the recorded music industry these days. It’s become a place where things go viral, hits

In this episode of The Charismatic Voice, professionally-trained singer Elizabeth Zharoff takes a close listen to and offers some vocal

…yes. This is exactly how it appears.

Oh, great. First COVID, then monkeypox, and now POLIO? Yay, anti-vaxxers! Distract yourself for a moment with music news for

Dorothea Taylor may be a grandmother, but she can still rock pretty good. Here she is performing a drum cover

One of the things that’s helped Canada become a global powerhouse in music is the investments we make in the

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
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