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A look at OLP and Moist at Ottawa’s CityFolk Festival

[The second half of a report on the festival from Ottawa correspondent Ross Macdonald. – AC] Friday night at Ottawa

With the country racing towards max vaxes, there are hopeful signs that parts of the live music scene is creeping

As of last Wednesday, May 19, private venue owners in New York State are no longer required to insist that

The hottest topic of the last few months (and especially of the last week) has been NFTs, “non-fungible tokens,” one-of-a-kind

[A full disclosure: I’m an investor in this company. Just wanna be up front about that. -AC] There’s a new

Jeremy Taggart, the drummer for Our Lady Peace through the years they sold millions of albums, is one of the

Our Lady Peace are looking for fans to share their videos of good deeds in their communities as part of

While it didn’t necessarily start when news of Gord Downie’s illness was announced, covers of the Tragically Hip’s music certainly

No one is born a rock star. Well, maybe in terms of attitude, but not if we’re talking about an

Buying concert tickets used to be easy. When you heard of a show you wanted to see, you went down

How would you like to be remembered when you’re gone? Most people make do with a tombstone or some such

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