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Random music news for Saturday, May 7, 2022

Back in 1984, Keanu Reeves worked for the CBC and did a report on a teddy bear convention. There’s video,

George Carlin had something to say about the current abortion situation in America. Anyone else miss him a lot? Let’s

A couple of weeks back Robert Fripp and wife Toyah Willcox offered up one of their Sunday Lunch covers with

A new single from Green Day’s upcoming album, Father of All, has a big problem embedded within it. The track,

Okay, so it won’t be a complete reunion because Kurt remains stubbornly unavailable, but 66.67% of the rest of the

Off to Winnipeg to see Paul McCartney tonight. I swear that when he does “Hey Jude” live, he casts healing

That’s enough Asia for now. The next 24 hours will be spent flying home and posting stuff using in-flight WiFi–which,

For the last twenty-five years, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award is bestowed upon people in the arts who have

Readers still reverberating from seeing Iggy Pop this spring as part of his Post Pop Depression tour will soon have

That’s all you really need to know about “Forbidden Nights” video actually. But there’s also Joan Jett, Paul Shaffer, Springsteen,

It’s been 30 years since they started inducting artists into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And if you

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 […]
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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 […]
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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