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Random music news for Friday, May 27, 2022

Love this kid. Way to go! And now let’s transition to music news for May 27, 2022. Surprise! Ted Nugent

Just as we’re learning to live with COVID comes monkeypox, a disease that is almost never seen outside of Africa.

So how did Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp disappear for six hours on Monday? Here’s an explainer. Once you’re done, there’s

Now that we’re spending more time indoors, this is something you might have wondered about. Once you’ve solved that mystery,

It was on this day in 1972 that a new thing called “HBO” started broadcasting. As for music news for

If there’s one thing you can say about U2 is that unless it is absolutely, completely, and utterly unavoidable, they

Ach nein, baby. U2 are in the throes of a European leg for the eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE tour; all the

I have an assignment today that involves drinking wine. Hey, someone’s gotta do these things. Best get in all the

I had a new roof put on the house 10 days ago. Now when it’s hot, it smells like tar

This popped into a bunch of Facebook feeds today. A bit startling, yes? This is Bowie Berlin Week (Sept 23-30),

Earlier this week I reported on a project purportedly designed to flush out the worst songs in the universe. 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