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Random music news for Tuesday, November 23, 2021

In coding? Then you might want to meet Marty the Moose. If not, there’s still music news for November 23,

The Polaris Music Prize has been honouring great contemporary Canadian music for a decade-and-a-half now. But our musical history extends

It’s October, which means Secret Path Week is almost upon us again. Between October 17 and 22, Canadians are called

No foolin’: Nickelback and Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” are among the honourees at the 30th anniversary SOCAN awards

Barbie (as in the doll) made its debut 60 years ago today. And when it comes to music news for

Today, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced that they chose singer-songwriter and social activist Buffy Sainte-Marie

There isn’t another music event in Canada that generates as much controversy, praise, bitching, arguing, debate and music discovery as

I called it, although I had nothing more to go on that a gut feeling. The 10th annual Polaris Music

Come September 21 at the Carlu in Toronto, one of these album will be declared by a jury of twelve

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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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