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Random music news for Thursday, September 30, 2021

Love wrestling? Then you’ll love this 52-page wrestling romance comic. It’s very sweary, too. Now for some music news for

Another blob. What is it? Not one of these blobs. Ponder that as you move to music news for May

As if we don’t have enough to worry about, there’s this and this. Oh, and this, too. Swell. Now, the

Heading out of the hemisphere for a few days, but I promise to keep on top of things with music

Like you, I have a couple of DVD and Blu-ray players in the house. I haven’t touched any of them

Still brutally cold over much of North America. At my parents’ place in Manitoba, it reached -50 C with the

The dogs stuck their noses outside this morning, sniffed the cold and said “Nope. We’re holding it until April.” I

The first 747 went into commercial service with Pan Am on this day in 1970. As for music news on

Okay, okay! I’ll take the Christmas tree down this weekend. I’ve been busy doing things like gathering music news. Here’s

Music news for All Hallow’s Eve Eve: October 30, 2018. Weekly Canadian music sales and streams vs. this point last

Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space on this day in 1984. And in music news for October 5,

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
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver