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All About Iggy (Pop)

[Frequent contributor Gilles LeBlanc went to the Liss Gallery photo exhibit on Iggy Pop, and filed a report as part

You don’t often hear the word free when you think of education, especially for music. The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is

Sound of Music festival is back with more news! The Burlington event announced The Offspring and LIVE as their Kick-Off concert

If you’re not doing anything this evening and have an interest in home recording, why not register for a free

There are two ways you can enjoy a streaming music service. First, you can subscribe for $10 or so and

In the pre-Internet days, it was easy to ascribe a value to music: it was how much it cost to

How the hell did the boss convince his staff to pose in the ice-cold waters of Lake Ontario?

Yep. They’re offering up a September 21, 1986, show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London–the Master of Puppets tour–for a

Listen, there’s nothing that says that songs for Valentines’s Day have to be all mushy. Maybe the occasion calls for

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