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Random music news for Thursday, July 25, 2019

The speaking tour is over–for now, anyway–so I’m flying back home today. Let’s do this again. Meanwhile, here’s some music

It’s the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s landing. We need to go back. Time for music news for July 20,

Now on the ground in Singapore after some 23 hours in transit. And there’s plenty of music news to report

When the Toronto International Film Festival fires up between September 7 and 17, the city is going to be awash

August 3, 2017 Alan Cross 1 Comment Emimen, Rap, TIFF

Eminem knows a thing or two about rap battles (hello, 8 Mile!), so when he was approached to produce a

While the Toronto International Film Festival won’t get to screen the new Bladerunner movie, it has secured the premiere for

The Stooges were an undeniably influential band. From Ann Arbor, Michigan, their brand of heavy, distorted garage rock helped lay

Radiohead appears, as they usually do, to be taking the world by storm. First, the disappearance from the internet quickly

The Toronto International Film Festival starts in about a month and the National Film Board will be well-represented. Here are

If you’re in the Greater Toronto Area and are free Wednesday night, you might want to consider attending a special

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 […]
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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 […]
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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