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Random music news for Thursday, December 31, 2020

As this wretched, wretched year comes to an end, here’s something else to be paranoid about: You are nothing but

Merry Christmas! Bet you thought there’d be no music news for December 25, did you? Wrong. An original Dave Grohl

Give it a moment. You’ll get it. (Via Tom) Here’s what I have for music news for October 19, 2020.

The people over at Forbes love to track how much money celebrities make. Their latest list has to do with

On this day in 1973, the first-ever handheld mobile phone call was made. As for music news on April 3,

I rolled up the rim to win and all I got was four more weeks of winter. Now all I

On this day in 1994, WXYC, a student radio station at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, became the

On this day in 1947, Meet the Press debuted on TV. It’s still on, making it the longest-running TV show

Okay, people time to take down the Halloween decorations. Those skeletons hanging in the tree in the front yard aren’t

I was hoping the weather in Vancouver (I’m here for the Junos) would be better than the weather in Toronto. Nope.

Rodney King was beaten senseless by the LAPD on this day in 1991. And now, for music news on March

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