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Restaurants might be reopening and bands might be starting to tour again, but members of the music industry and its

NOW they invent something like this. I could have used this a while back. Live and learn. Now some music

Live music has returned, but given the virulence of the delta variant, we’re hardly back to normal. Live Nation Canada

While Canada is taking a very, very cautious approach to restarting live music, the U.S. doesn’t seem to be worried

The MyPillow guy is nuts. Truly nuts. Let’s try some reality with music news for August 7, 2021. Patricia Morrison,

It’s my parents’ anniversary today: 64 years. Wow. As for other things happening on August 3, 2021, here’s some music

Ontario Place, the lakefront leisure destination in Toronto, is in desperate need of renovation and updating. While parts of it

In all seriousness, I was wondering about this. Can COVID be transmitted through farts? Doctors say it’s possible. Ponder that

Olympics! Right. Probably should start watching, huh? But only after music news for July 24, 2021. To help get the

Is there a more Sisiphyian job on the planet than fetching shopping carts back to the store at Costco? Moving

Earlier this year, Brompton Bikes, the maker of foldable bicycles, commissioned customizations from 13 different artists. The goal was to

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
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver