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Random music news for Tuesday, August 23, 2022

The Finnish Prime Minister might be the coolest leader on the planet right now. Seriously. Let’s sharply segue to what’s

Send in the drones. And here comes music news for May 31, 2022. Jack White is calling for gun control

Yeah. Why has it? Ponder that before moving on to music news for April 12, 2022. If you’re going in

Metallica and Tool are using COVID-sniffing dogs on their tours. And here’s Tool rehearsing for their upcoming tour. The COVID

Tired of music memorabilia? How about space memorabilia? Let’s get down to business with music news for October 21, 2021.

On behalf of everyone in the part of North America where May weather has yet to assert itself, go home

That’s enough for hospital stays for a while. Maybe things can get bad to normal and I can stop growing

This is probably the day of the year when productivity falls to the lowest of the year. Who’s gonna want

On this day in 1972, Atari released Pong. It became the first successful commercial video game. As for music news

Back at work after two weeks of time off and just in time for tonight’s Polaris Music Prize gala. I’ll

Big BBQ at my place tonight. Stand back. I’ll cook. No, really. Stand back! And now, music news for June 23,

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