Record Store Day Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

There’s a new 12-part doc on record shops coming

If you’re the kind of person who loves to root around in record shops, a new 12-part documentary entitled Behind

For the last several months, vinyl records have spiked in price as supply chain shortages get worse. Everything has been

Maybe this is my problem. Anyone got some good bacteria? Moving to music news for September 16, 2021… There will

MRC Data dropped their weekly stats update Monday evening. How did the Canadian recorded music industry do in the week

I was expecting more this week, if I’m honest. With anecdotes of long lines and busy stores for Record Store

If you dig back into The Ongoing History of New Music archives, you’ll find an episode first broadcast on April

In the Before Times, Record Store Day was held on the third Saturday of April. COVID screwed that up with

That was some internet outage yesterday, huh? When Amazon goes down, you know it was bad. We’re okay now, so

Need a vacation? Maybe you can volunteer to see if cruises are safe again. Over to music news for May

If you have any anti-vaxxers in your life, read this, commit it to memory, and use it against their stupid

With Record Store Day set for June 12 and July 17 this year, we needed some musicians to serve as

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