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Random music news for Monday, July 20, 2020

July 20, 2020July 19, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canned Heat, Clash, Concerts, Donald Trump, Drake, Linkin Park, Live Music, LyricFind, Lyrics, Ozzy, Perry Farrell, Ramones, Rockfield Studios, William Shatner

I’ve had the same three twenty-dollar bills in my wallet for six weeks. I have no loose change in the

A short history on the use of the F-bomb in music

May 18, 2020May 17, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Lyrics

[I got bored constantly writing about COVID-19 for GlobalNews.ca. So I wrote this for them. -AC] It was somewhere around

What’s the type of virtual communication mentioned most in song lyrics? Let’s take a look.

April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Lyrics

While everyone has a smartphone these days, how many people actually use them to make voice calls? LyricFind, the Toronto-based

How have song lyrics evolved over the last ten years? Let’s take a look.

December 16, 2019December 15, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2010s, Lyrics

If you were asked which decade provided the most articulate and inventive lyrics in its music, what would you guess?

Year-end review time: 2019’s most popular lyric searches according to LyricFind

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Lyrics

Toronto-based LyricFind is the biggest supplier of licensed song lyrics in the known galaxy. And yes, they keep track of

Geeks and Beats podcast, episode 252: Kiss this guy

November 6, 2019November 8, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments LyricFind, Lyrics

Lyrics are the most popular and most widely searched music content on the Internet. When listeners bought physical albums, finding

Interesting: The most-searched-for lyrics from the summer of 2019

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments LyricFind, Lyrics

LyricFind, the Canadian-based licensor of lyrics (the biggest in the world, apparently) keeps track of what people search for. Here’s

Post-Labour Day timesuck: A site that creates custom lyrics using AI

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Lyrics, Songwriting, TheseLyricsDoNotExist

Ugh. The day after Labour Day is always the worst. Summer’s over. Back to work. Back to school. Shorter days.

It’s 4/20. Here’s a lyrical analysis of songs that mention weed.

April 20, 2019April 18, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 4/20, Infographic, LyricFind, Lyrics, Weed

LyricFind, the world’s largest licensor of song lyrics, has put together this infographic that shows the top weed name-drops in

It’s not your imagination. Lyrics are getting sadder and angrier.

December 29, 2018December 31, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Lyrics

Live long enough and you’ll begin to notice shifts in culture that happen not over months but years or even

What lyrics did people search for in 2018? LyricFind can tell us.

December 7, 2018December 6, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2018, LyricFind, Lyrics

More year-end fun, this time with a look at what lyrics people searched for the most. LyricFind, the Canadian-based lyric

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The best live sports executive producers are a blend of genius, in both art and science. Whether we realize it or not, as viewers, we are of course more deeply engaged in cliffhangers. Match outcomes that keep us tuned in until the very end. That is where the executive producer shines. The research and preparation […]
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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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