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Random music news for Thursday, May 26, 2022

Japan continues to lead the world in vending machine technology. And this site does pretty good for music news on

One of the more outrageous record industry characters was Neil Bogart, the head of Casablanca Records. The label’s glory days

[A guest post from frequent contributor, Gilles LeBlanc. – AC] Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters have seemingly done it all

What does it look like to approach the speed of light? This. Now that your mind is boggled, let’s move

Why does a salad seem taste better when someone else makes it? Just wondering. Meanwhile, here’s what I have for

Here’s another example of how viewing historical events through a contemporary lens can lead to distortions about how things actually

It’s the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing. We need to go back. Time for music news for July 20,

Merry International Women’s Day. In addition to that, we have music news for March 8, 2019. I wrote this about

No, I don’t get it, either. How could this have ever seemed like a good idea? (Blame Tom for the

On this day in 1901, the first Nobel Prize ceremony was held. That’s a big ancient, so here’s something more

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca – AC] After a couple of rough days (including having my parked car

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