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Want to get your song on playlists for studying? Here’s what you do.

Sometimes when you have to cram for something–school, work, some kind of special project–it helps if you have some music

Black Friday. Try not to get trampled. Or is that just an American thing? Here’s music news for November 26,

It’s American Thanksgiving so music news is a little hard to come by. But I have found a few things

When an artist finishes recording an album, they go through the agonizing progress of sequencing the songs. Do the songs

If you use Spotify, you may have nothings something different about its interface over the weekend if you wanted to

I watched the second season of Tiger King in one sitting. I feel shame. However, I do feel good about

Spotify has just announced that it’s expanding its chart offering. There’s a new Charts website, which sounds interesting. You can

Don’t like getting needles? Maybe you need this robot vaxxer. As for music news on November 5, 2021… Live Nation

Once upon a time, music was sold to us on pieces of plastic. We had to travel through time and

Whatever Pete Davidson has, I want some of it. What’s the dude’s secret? Ponder that as we go through music

A gambling site called Gala Bingo commissioned some research about motivational songs. They went through 450,000 Spotify playlists and collected

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