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The 2021 Polaris Music Prize Gala is TONIGHT!

The finale of the 2021 Polaris Music prize is coming up tonight (September 27) and after months of debating and

It’s my parents’ anniversary today: 64 years. Wow. As for other things happening on August 3, 2021, here’s some music

You know we’re deep into summer when we start talking about the finalists for the Polaris Music Prize. We started

After nearly of year of nominating, lobbying, and listening, the jury for the Polaris Music Prize (200+ people of which

The Polaris Music Prize is back for 2021. Nominations and debates about a vast array of new Canadian albums are

With Backxwash winning the 2020 Polaris Music Prize this past Monday, it’s time to move to the 2020 Slaight Family

It came a month late and had to be done in a virtual setting, but we finally have a winner

In the Before Times, the Polaris Music Prize came to its annual conclusion with a big gala in Toronto on

We needed some good news like this in the age of pandemic. No flu season this year? We’ll see. On

When this whole process began, music wonks such as myself nominated over 200 albums for consideration by the Polaris Music

Since its inception earlier in the century, the grand prize winner in the Polaris Music Prize has always been announced

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