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Random Music News for Saturday, January 27, 2018

This was the first day of the Great Blizzard of 1977. People in the Great Lakes still talk about how

You may have heard of the “seven-year rule,” a made-in-California construct that allows artists of all sorts to exit a

Virtual reality used to be the stuff of science fiction, but not anymore. Tech savvy businesses and pop-ups are bringing

I’m somewhere between Perth, Australia, and home in Toronto. Through the miracle of traveling east across the date line and

Here’s yet another list of songs hand-picked by me from all the dozens (hundreds?) that came through my computer this

On this day in 1973, Elvis Presley’s live broadcast from a Hawaii set a record for the most-watched show ever

Deep in a study done by a guy named Andrew Powell-Morse–the same study that says pop music lyrics are being

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