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Indie Week kicks off five-day online conference Monday

It’s back and all online: Indie Week 2021 starts a jam-packed five-day conference Monday. Featuring a one-on-one interview with Marky

If there’s one question I get more than any other, it’s “How to I get my song on the radio?”

I’m supposed to be on vacation this week–it’s another “use it or lose it” situation–but with nowhere to go, I’m

Here’s one of the best reasons you should use the pandemic to start exercising more. Think about that and then

Indie Week promotes itself as the premiere emerging artist festival in Canada with five days and nights of music, showcases,

The big day might not come until November, the deadline for early Indie Week registration is April 9 – just

Hard to believe it, but bands can already register for Indie Week 2019, scheduled for November 13-17 in Toronto. Early

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

My friend in Singapore WhatsApp’d me to say that the nighttime temperature has fallen to 24 degrees. “We’re wearing LAYERS, dude!”

Question: Will Donald Trump throw Donald Jr. under the bus over this whole Russia thing? And now, music news for

That bug that causes extreme respiratory distress has got me. It’s disgusting. And now, the music news. The 14th annual

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