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Whitehorse helps bring live music back to a corner of Ontario: An interview with Melissa and Luc

[This is a guest post from Ross McDonald. He also took all the pictures. – AC] In March of this

[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca on Sunday. – AC] After relentless touring behind their debut album, Up to Here, The

Sixteen years ago when I was program director at 102.1 the Edge/Toronto, we had Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland of

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] The future looked bleak for AC/DC. Singer Brian Johnson’s severe hearing

[Another guest post by a friend of A Journal of Musical Things. Today’s piece is by Mark Silver. – AC]

Gordie Johnson is on the phone from Big Sugar HQ somewhere in Texas hill country. After planning to release Eternity

It all came to an end on August 28, 2009. It was a plum thrown against a wall that did

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Ed O’Brien seems a bit anxious on the phone from London.

Forty years ago, Bob Rock was one-half of The Payolas, a Vancouver post-punk/New Wave band who had hits like this.

Warning: When you get two drummers in a room talking about things like drums, they will talk for a long,

It all came to an end on August 28, 2009. It was a plum thrown against a wall that did

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
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