Music Festival Archives | Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Diesel Bird, a big Canadian online music festival is scheduled for TODAY.

With COVID-19 deep-sixing any gigs and festivals for the foreseeable future, more artists are turning to online avenues for playing

Indie Week promotes itself as the premiere emerging artist festival in Canada with five days and nights of music, showcases,

Sad news out of Toronto festival-land as the city’s beloved Field Trip announced it is taking a hiatus in 2019,

For the most populous province in Confederation, Ontario, should have more choice when it comes to multi-day outdoor music festivals.

Canadian metal bands are now able to apply to Wacken Metal Battle for the chance to play Wacken Open Air

The differences are sometimes subtle, but each live music event has its own smells. Maison Margiela, a Paris company looking

The final Vans Warped Tour has come and gone in Toronto and wow, what an experience! I needed a few

Porta-potties are gross things at the best of times but never more so at music festivals. This video of flying

We don’t normally equate a modern music festival with The Golden Girls, but… Read more here.

A couple of years ago, I had a chance to visit the DMZ in Panmunjeom along the border between North and

Fat Mike, NOFX frontman and head of Fat Wreck Chords is going to do the world a favour by staging

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 […]
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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 […]
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The Custodian of Toronto Sports – Richard Peddie in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 033 May 27, 2021
Over a 20+ year span, as the Toronto pro sports scene evolved from older venues and stands filled with blue and white (Leafs, Blue Jays, Argonauts) to a more intense red (Raptors, TFC), and grand coliseums that define the city’s skyline, there is one sports executive in particular who ownership looked to. We’re of course […]
Mark Silver