25th anniversary Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Back to Eden(fest): The awesome and disastrous 1996 Ontario music festival

[Gilles LeBlanc remembers Edenfest, a weekend music festival at Mosport Park east of Toronto that didn’t quite turn out as

Had this year been like any other, the Foo Fighters would have spent much of the time on the road

Yes, it’s been that long. I’ve checked the math, both with a computer and by hand. Come September, it will

I probably don’t have to tell readers of this site that 1994 was a landmark year for music releases. We’ve

Sometime on April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain, who had walked away from a rehab facility in LA four days earlier,

March 1st, 2019 isn’t the happiest of anniversaries as 25 years ago, Nirvana played their last-ever show ever at Terminal

Sorry for the gross headline, but it’s pretty amazing to think how an album named after diarrhea has become more

With Alan away in Las Vegas, he has passed the torch of writing about In Utero on its 25th anniversary to

I’m usually not one for sentimentality, but July 27th marks the Big 2-5 of an album I’m going to go

If you had told me on February 28, 1993, the night first Ongoing History of New Music episode aired, that

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

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