Slaight Music Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Cast your ballot for the Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize

It’s Thanksgiving weekend, which means you’re either in a food coma or trying to find things to do to avoid

Canadian musicians still have the opportunity to enter It’s Your Shot 2019. Canada’s premiere songwriting and artist development competition created

Gary Slaight and the people at Slaight Music are deadly serious about their self-appointed mission to aid Canadian musicians. Deadly

OVERWERK–the name used by electro songwriter and producer Edmond Huszar, has won the first-ever Vista Music Prize, a $10,000 cash

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