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A Smiths demo cassette just sold for $21,000

Rock memorabilia continues to be big business. The original demo cassette from The Smiths, complete with a letter from the

This demo, officially released in 2014, is making the rounds again. It’s certainly different from what we’ve come to know.

That is one DEEP pool! Now let’s get deep with music news for July 16, 2021. This isn’t good: 954

When we hear a new song, it’s the final product of what is often a long and agonizing process of

All Iron Maiden fans know that Bruce Dickinson wasn’t the band’s first vocalist. The group began with a dude named

Nile Rodgers, the producer for David Bowie’s Let’s Dance album, recently posted this demo version of the title track. It

One day in the spring of 1993 as I was preparing for my afternoon shift at 102.1 the Edge, I

Before they were Depeche Mode, they were Composition of Sound. And in the summer of 1980, they recorded a three-song

As if everything he’s doing with the Foo Fighters isn’t enough–and it never is–he’s part of a new supergroup featuring

Open Culture goes into some detail on the birth of one of the greatest (if not the greatest) mockumentaries of

With programmers, coders and developers all in San Francisco this week for Apple’s annual WWDC event, the company is showing

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