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Random music news for Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Please don’t shoot people over loud music, especially on Christmas Eve. Then again, this is a Florida story. Segueing to

Writing lyrics is hard. Whenever I tried doing something like that, my creations as weaker than rhyming “gin” and “sin,”

[Another summer encore. Back with more new shows in the fall. -AC] There is no question that the vast majority

Everyone talks about being first at something because…well, it’s cool to be first, right? But what about being last? There’s

On this day in 1867, the US purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Imagine if they hadn’t sold. And

There’s some kind of big Pokemon Go update today. Are people still into that? Here’s some music news… Prince’s best

John Lennon day. It’s been thirty-six years. And now, in music news… Patti Smith will stand in for Bob Dylan

A nice collaborative effort to start the week: Bono joined Springsteen onstage in Dublin to sing “Because the Night,” the

I just missed the original punk rock explosion of the 1970s, so my experience with what actually happened is somewhat

What happens on Shark Tank really shouldn’t bother me as much as it does. What’s wrong with me? And now,

If you pay attention to long-term cyclical trends in music, you could have predicted this was going to happen. 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 […]
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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 […]
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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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