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Ongoing History Daily: The missed Clash reunion

The end of the Clash began late in the summer of 1983 when Joe Strummer fired Mick Jones. Joe was

If Tom DeLonge isn’t back in blink-182, these last couple of weeks has been a cruel tease. Most recently, we

Lisa Simpson is now married. Seriously. Moving to music news for July 16, 2022… Nice tribute to Taylor Hawkins, no?

[Photos by Ross MacDonald. Story by Karen Coughtrey. -AC] Friday, April 29, 2022, will always be remembered as a historical

Pink Floyd, which hasn’t done properly Floyd-ish for years (I’m going with The Division Bell from 1994 and discounting the

The Clash was one of the greatest rock’n’roll bands of all time. Unfortunately, they just sort of faded away after

With much fanfare, the original members of ABBA appeared in the flesh at an event in London to announce their

Is there a more Sisiphyian job on the planet than fetching shopping carts back to the store at Costco? Moving

They saved the performance for the last five minutes of the two hour broadcast. Set up on the stage of

The Clash never really formally broke up. They just kind of…evaporated sometime in 1986 with no official announcement or farewell.

Friends has always been very, very popular in China. However, the new reunion show has apparently run afoul of government

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