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Random music news for Saturday, November 21, 2020

If you’re a fan of The Simpsons, you’ll appreciate this. And meanwhile, back in Russia… Once you’re done watching that

We needed some good news like this in the age of pandemic. No flu season this year? We’ll see. On

First, a question: What if Good Fellas was a 1990s sitcom? Now some music news for June 25, 2020. Coronavirus

The COVID-19 dreams are getting crazy. I dreamt that I was in charge of a McDonald’s focus group to determine

Hey, we haven’t heard Rudy Giuliani run off at the mouth for weeks. Where did he go? I’ll start looking

Yes, I’m glad for the extra daylight at the end of the day, but switching to DST is not healthy.

Karaoke is a big, big thing with some people. Singapore, a country where I spend a considerable amount of time,

It took more than 800 singers running through somewhere north of 9,000 songs, but organizers of a karaoke singing marathon

One of the most distinctive vocal bits in all of metal is the “Oooh WAH AH AH AH” heard in

This was the date in 1993 of the truck bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York. Worse was

It’s new iPhone day. The reality distortion field has been switched on in an effort to reduce sticker shock. And

Intimate gatherings of sports fans and media personalities – Kevin Kennedy in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 012 November 25, 2020
No matter the sport, passionate fans and pundits have long debated the goings-on in the clubhouse or on the pitch of every pro sports team. For most of us, this dialogue and discord are limited to Twitter, or perhaps yelling at sports talk radio hosts in our cars. If you were paying slightly more attention, […]
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The Business of Independent Production – Don Young in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 011 November 18, 2020
Canadians have long heard about Canadian content, aka CanCon. What most outside of the broadcast business don’t generally realize is that much of that content is actually subsidized by the private broadcasters, such as Bell Media and Rogers Media. Many independent producers have made a career, and a lot of money, perfecting the art of […]
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Reaching new VR frontiers – Laura Mingail in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 010 November 10, 2020
Pushing boundaries and breaking with convention takes more than confidence, especially when you’re working inside a media giant. To do this in an authentic and meaningful way one needs to truly believe that they can make a difference, for the greater good. Laura Mingail has done just that in many of her roles, and as […]
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