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Random music news for Wednesday, May 25, 2022

I was suckered by this misleading headline. I thought it was a music story, It is not. The rest of

It’s a holiday here in Canada, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any music news for May 23, 2022. So

Johnny Lydon isn’t happy about it, but Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle has turned the memoir of Pistols’ guitarist Steve

Pistol, Danny Boyle’s six-episode series based on a book by guitarist Steve Jones entitled Lonely Boy: Takes from a Sex

Earlier this week, Dolly Parton gracefully said “Thanks but no thanks” to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame regarding

The singer of the Sex Pistols is Johnny Lydon, but thirty-plus years ago, he was known as “Johnny Rotten.” Why?

The Masked Singer isn’t my kind of TV, although I would have loved to have seen this appearance by Johnny

Back in the day, one of the more famous recording studios in London was Wessex Studios in Highbury. The building

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

A metal bassist stopped a possible mass shooting at a gig in Boise, Idaho. He got shot for his troubles,

Gimme. NOW. As for music news for August 24, 2021… A UK study confirms that it’s possible to hold full-capacity

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