Prodigy Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Check out this 7-year-old drumming prodigy as he covers System of a Down

His name is Noah Martel, a 7-year-old from Gatineau, Quebec, who already has a pretty solid concept of how to

Here comes Playstation 5. And here comes music news for September 18, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: A safe music festival

Gotta go to LA for a movie junket tomorrow just as southern California is burning up in wildfires. Swell. Meanwhile,

It was on this day in 2001 when the US invaded Afghanistan. They thought it would be a quick war.

Millennials have figured out how to stop spam calls on their mobile phones. Basically, if the phone rings, it’s spam.

Happy 57th birthday, Axl Rose. And now for music news on February 6, 2019. A Foo Fighter got hurt and

One of the great things about the alt-rock revolution of the 1990s was its seemingly endless diversity. The sounds from

Left the hotel in Singapore at 3:45 am Wednesday morning. I’ll arrive home in Toronto at 7:25 pm the same

I love tutorials like this. Thanks to the Lonely Vagabond for passing it along. Making Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up”

All right, back to work. Only 78 days until spring. And while we’re on the subject of a new year,

As the family comes round for Christmas this year, show them this video of one of the No So Old

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