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RIP Meat Loaf, dead at age 74. Here’s everything we know.

Meat Loaf, otherwise known as Marvin Lee Aday (and legally known as Michael in 1984), has died at the age

Our credit cards are going vertical. That may take an adjustment. Here’s music news for January 4, 2022. Musicians we

You’ll read all kinds of obituaries about Mike Nesmith, the brainiest of The Monkees, who died this week of natural

At one point in the 1970s, the most powerful person in North American radio was Rosalie Trombley, the music director

If you’re were at all into the heavier side of electronic music, then you’ll have inevitably run into Cabaret Voltaire,

Lee “Scratch” Perry was one of the most influential and at the same time one of the weirdest dudes to

pic.twitter.com/YUR6lckf8k — Keith Richards (@officialKeef) August 24, 2021 Fans had a feeling that something was very wrong when it was

When I arrived at CFNY on October 3, 1986, one of the first people I encountered in the halls was

Dusty Hill, the bass player for ZZ Top for more than 50 years has died. He was 72. Billy Gibbons

Joey Jordison was with the rest of the guys in Des Moines, Iowa when Slipknot first came together in 1995.

If you spent hours watching music videos in back in the 80s, the clip for Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again”

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