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Can this site really help you find your next favourite band?

There are a zillion ways to get music recommendations online with algorithm after algorithm promising to help us discover new

Last year, Spotify was granted a patent for tracking personality. The app has found a way to assess “behavioral variables”

I’ve said it before: Can you imagine if COVID-19 hit in the days before the internet? With all the record

Do you find yourself bombarded by music you just don’t care about? Everyone wants recommendations of cool stuff, but often

On this day in 1951, the first-ever colour TVs went on sale. No one care and less than a month

It’s the first legal 4/20 in Canada. Kinda feels different given that every day is 4/20 in this country, doesn’t

Spare me the Groundhog Day references. I get it. Spare me the Groundhog Day references. I get it. Spare me

Had he lived, Tupac would be 57 today. And in other music news for June 16, 2018… Here are my

Spotify sometimes evokes the old Arthur C. Clarke adage that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Take its

Virtually every music service promises that it will learn from your tastes and serve you up more of what you will

This article from Wired explains a lot about music curation and recommendations. Bad playlists have a science all their own. “When

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
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