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Random music news for Monday, October 19, 2020.

Give it a moment. You’ll get it. (Via Tom) Here’s what I have for music news for October 19, 2020.

I completely forgot that we had a long weekend this week. Frankly, EVERY weekend for the last month has been

On this day in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee released his proposal for something he called The World Wide Web. Moving to

It’s the strangest disappearance case in the history of rock. What happened to Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers

For someone who was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death, it’s somehow mathematically appropriate that Stephen Hawking died

This is Cliff Burton Day! I hope you bought a card. In other music news for February 10… Here are

Yep. December. And that bougainvillea in my backyard has finally died. That was one tough tropical plant. And now the music

Much was made about the historic gig played by the Rolling Stones in Cuba back on March 25. “A Western

Well known artists can make a lot of money for private concerts, and apparently, not everyone who has a ton

If you’re a Manics fan, you’ll want to have a close look at this new version of The Holy Bible,

That’s weird. There’s no pro baseball, football, basketball or hockey scheduled today. That doesn’t happen very often, does it? U2

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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