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Best of Music from the Inbox for 2021 – Tuesday Edition!

December 28, 2021December 28, 2021 Nerhys 0 Comments As Time Fades, Best Of, Mod Sun, New Music, New Music From The Inbox, Octopus Montage, Set Into Motion, Sophie Powers

Octopus Montage Song: “Dopamine”Album: SingleRelease Date: January 14, 2021Date Featured: January 19, 2021Location: Blackpool, UKWhy I Like it: A fast-paced

Opinion

How will we remember the music of the 2010s? And what albums will we still love years from now?

December 4, 2019December 3, 2019 Alan Cross 4 Comments 2010s, Best Of

With about three weeks to go in the decade, this is the time for retrospectives. In the case of music,

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AJoMT’s Mat picks the best albums of 2018

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 Mathew Kahansky 1 Comment Album of the Year, Best Albums, Best Of, Best of 2018, Best Records, Born Ruffians, BOSSIE, Dizzy, Doja Cat, IDLES, Jeff Rosenstock, Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers, Little Junior, MGMT, New Music From The Inbox, Snail Mail, The Dirty Nil, Tokyo Police Club

Because late is better than never, right? 2018 to me felt like the year of new emotion. It seems like

Music Industry Music News

Spotify has released their year-end lists of the most popular music of 2018

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2018, Best Of, Spotify, Year-end

More year-end list fun. Both Spotify and Amazon Prime have published their lists of the most popular music of 2018.

Music News

An Odd (Cool?) Recap of the Top Songs of 2014

December 31, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2014, Andrew Huang, Best Of

Say hello to Andrew Huang who found a way to review all the top pop songs of 2014 using nothing

Lists

Data-Mining the Year’s “Best-Of” Lists to Come Up with Some Real Answers About What Was “Best”

December 31, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2014, Best Of, Data mining, Music, Year-end

Overwhelmed by the oppressive number of year-end “best of” lists? To illustrate the point that year-end lists are like assholes,

Lists

The Best and Worst Lyrics of 2014

December 30, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2014, Best Of, Lyrics, Tove Lo

Another good year-end list from Entertainment Weekly. The entire thing can be found here. THE BEST: “I eat my dinner

Lists

Looking for “Best of” Music Lists for 2014? Here are 573 of Them, All in One Place

December 28, 2014December 28, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2014, Best Of, That Eric Alper

That Eric Alper apparently has lots of free time over the holidays because he’s been diligently compiling a list of

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