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RIP Mr. Chi Pig

The above image is from Ken Chinn’s AKA Mr. Chi Pig’s last-ever interview with BeatRoute Magazine, and pretty much says

It’s not every day a performer gets tossed from the bill at a music festival. Especially when it relates to

A while back Cameron Gordon’s Completely Ignored featured a post on Toronto music venues that no longer exist. The declining

I’ve been asked to speak about geeky music things at the Uptown + Downtown Music Festival in Edmonton on Thanksgiving

It was a Friday afternoon in 1987 when the skies over Edmonton turned ominously dark. Thunderstorms were moving through and

Canada’s a pretty big country, and getting music across the provinces – like, from one physical location to the other

Meat Loaf has not been 100% for a while with stories of health problems going back for years. Last night

The Foo Fighters continue to have a tremendous amount of fun on their North American tour by engaging their fans

This from an Edmonton band called NN. Damn, they mashed this up well. Could be my song of the week.

Behold the work of Travis Nesbitt (ex of Edmonton’s Social Code, now of SIINES) and singer-songwriter Russ Dawson. (Or was

Off to Edmonton today to speak on music geekery at Grant Macewan University in Edmonton. If you haven’t heard of

Revenue Architects… Beyond the : 30-second spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
Mark Silver
King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
Mark Silver
Leading the pack in the Sports Betting Race – Jim Lawson in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 028 April 20, 2021
For several years, the legalization of single-event sports betting and the planned provincially controlled roll-out has been a hot topic. During that time, Woodbine Entertainment‘s astute executives have been watching and waiting while investing in the media and digital technologies that will be needed in a Canadian landscape where offshore behemoths are permitted to operate […]
Mark Silver