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Random music news for Tuesday, June 19, 2019

If there’s one cool non-football thing about the World Cup, it’s our quadriennial instruction in vexillology. Back to music news

Sales of new vinyl in Canada are up over 50% from this time last year. Meanwhile, the traffic in used vinyl

I did not know this about April 18, 2018. Let’s move on to the music news for the day. Alexa

With the First Annual Toronto Vinyl Summit coming up at The Rec Room on May 9 (I’m a co-founder plus

[Elisa F G looks at the upcoming spring edition of the Downtown Record Show in Toronto. I’d be there, but

[A look at the vinyl resurrection by Jess Water. – AC] Vinyl has been going since 1948 but never left

The Robb Report is the magazine for the one-percenters, a publication that focuses on nothing but conspicuous consumption. Are you a Russian

Sure, anyone can collect basic black round vinyl records. But if you really want to get your vinyl freak on,

All record collecting nerds consider the novel/movie High Fidelity to be closer to a documentary than anything else. The book

How much physical music did you buy last year? A couple of CDs? A few pieces of vinyl? When speaking

No. There will always be knobs like me who insist on acquiring and owning certain LPs, singles and CDs. But

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