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Is facial recognition coming to a show near you?

Going to a concert should be about the fun, not a scenario in which people are worried about their photo

The community of musicians is like any other. While most people are good, you will have your bad actors: musicians

Nickelback played Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday night. This is what greeted them. The warning came with this. And since

The community of musicians is like any other. While most people are good, you will have your bad actors: musicians

The criminal justice system is a very weird ecosystem, especially in the United States. Slate looks at how prosecutors are

I spend a couple of hours in Narita Airport long enough yesterday to hear the news about how two members

Ian Watkins is supposed to spend the next 35 years in jail for 13 different child porn offences, including attempted

It seemed like a normal night at LaPita’s Restaurant in Annapolis, Maryland–until there were some objections over the music being

Something seemed wrong with Pearl Jam’s accounts. Over the course of about four years, $380,000 had gone missing. Cash flow

Ian Watkins, the sicko singer of Lostprophets, was sentenced to 35 years in jail Wednesday for a series of hideous

Ian Watkins, the former singer for the Welsh band Lostprophets, is going to jail for a long time. Probably not

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