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Random music news for Saturday, February 29, 2020

Look at it this way: Get past today and we won’t have to deal with another extra-long February until 2024.

Good news, Virginia! It’ll soon become legal for unmarried heterosexual people to have sex! Yes, you read that correctly. And

On this day in 1896, National Geographic published its first picture of a woman with bare breasts. Scandalous. Moving to

Musicians are paid fractions of a penny every time their song is streamed. The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) ruled

It’s tough getting back into the swing of things after the holidays, isn’t it? But now that we’re into double

Here’s another great German word that has no English equivalent: kummerspeck. It literally means “grief bacon” and describes how you

Snow tires. Gotta start about thinking of putting them on. We also need to think of music news for October

Off to Winnipeg to see Paul McCartney tonight. I swear that when he does “Hey Jude” live, he casts healing

Back in the home office for a few days, long enough for the dogs to recognize me again. Here’s what’s

It is just me or is there less paper on your average toilet roll these days? Just askin’. Moving to

Record Store Day! Yay! What else is making music news on April 21, 2018? Here are my weekly music picks

Making “The End of The Storm” – James Erskine in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 026 March 24, 2021
This week’s guest — director James Erskine — joins us from England where he has just released his latest feature-length documentary, The End of The Storm. The documentary follows Liverpool Football Club and their fans as they navigate the covid-interrupted 2019-2020 Premier League winning season. James expertly weaves together the voice of Jürgen Klopp, the […]
Andrew Dick
Inside the Toronto Sports Media Scene – Jonah Sigel in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 025 March 17, 2021
Being a Toronto sports fan hasn’t been easy for many generations of Torontonians. Of course, the Raptors NBA title was kind of a reset for the city, and there were a couple of crazy Blue Jays runs a few years back, but those were more so the Toronto sports awakening for Millenials. For Gen X, […]
Mark Silver
In a League of Her Own – Mary Ellen Carlyle in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 024 March 10, 2021
Dome Productions is a relatively unknown company. Anyone who has walked by Gate 13 at Rogers Centre while attending a Toronto Blue Jays game has likely missed the small Dome Productions office sign, which looks more like a cornerstone time-capsule on the building’s facade. However, there’s a good reason you’ve never heard of Dome. They […]
Mark Silver