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UPDATED WITH MORE DETAILS AND AUDIO: 50 unreleased Rolling Stones tracks have suddenly appeared online. Why? And how?

Over the weekend, 50 unreleased Rolling Stones songs stretching back over almost 60 years appeared online. No one seems to

You know that things are weird when my visit to Costoco revealed that my local store totally out of antiseptic

Illegally made recordings are as old as recorded music itself. In 1901, Lionel Mapleson, the librarian at the Metropolitan Opera

I understand why people back into parking spaces at the mall, but when it’s crowded and busy during the holiday

Unauthorized sharing of songs goes back further than Napster. Much further. As proof, here’s a short film Neil Young shot

I confess: I used to buy a lot of bootleg CDs. And I mean a lot. They ran the gamut:

It was on this day in 1963 that the first-ever push-button telephone went into service. And now, some music news…

The first known example of a successful bootleg was an unauthorized Bob Dylan collection of–ahem–misplaced tracks called Great White Wonder

[For some reason, I’ve recently been getting a lot of people asking about the old illicit Soviet method or distributing

There was a time not that long ago that mobile phones were banned from concerts. You may remember seeing signs

Making “The End of The Storm” – James Erskine in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 026 March 24, 2021
This week’s guest — director James Erskine — joins us from England where he has just released his latest feature-length documentary, The End of The Storm. The documentary follows Liverpool Football Club and their fans as they navigate the covid-interrupted 2019-2020 Premier League winning season. James expertly weaves together the voice of Jürgen Klopp, the […]
Andrew Dick
Inside the Toronto Sports Media Scene – Jonah Sigel in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 025 March 17, 2021
Being a Toronto sports fan hasn’t been easy for many generations of Torontonians. Of course, the Raptors NBA title was kind of a reset for the city, and there were a couple of crazy Blue Jays runs a few years back, but those were more so the Toronto sports awakening for Millenials. For Gen X, […]
Mark Silver
In a League of Her Own – Mary Ellen Carlyle in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 024 March 10, 2021
Dome Productions is a relatively unknown company. Anyone who has walked by Gate 13 at Rogers Centre while attending a Toronto Blue Jays game has likely missed the small Dome Productions office sign, which looks more like a cornerstone time-capsule on the building’s facade. However, there’s a good reason you’ve never heard of Dome. They […]
Mark Silver