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Random music news for Wednesday, February 16, 2022

This is a pretty extreme sort of initiation ritual, don’t you think? While you try to keep your food down,

Coldplay is about to complete their transition from a British indie band to a full-on mainstream pop band with their

If you’re an REM fan, you’ll want this new demo reissue. Spotify will start auto-transcribing podcasts over the next few

Back on this day in 1962, the US banned Cuban cigars. They’re still banned, right? Moving to music news for

It was on this day in 1989 that things all went very, very wrong for the protestors in Tiananmen Square

No more Olympics. I feel a void. I’m filling it with music news for February 26, 2018. The #MeToo situation

I still use cheques. I’ve ruined three already by dating them “2017.” This is a roundup of music news for

In Edmonton today for a speaking thing and the Up and Downtown Festival. If you’re in the neighbourhood, drop in.

Still can’t find the right emoji to express your feelings? Then maybe you need Emojams, a new set of pictograms

The first emojis emerged in text-happy Japan as a way to economically express emotions, reactions and opinions. Today there are

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