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Toronto gets a new outdoor music festival for summer 2022

As agents and promoters scramble to schedule postponed gigs as well as deal with new tours, Toronto is getting a

Oh, how we’ve been waiting for this to happen: North By Northeast is returning to Toronto for a full week

Why are gas prices so stupidly high? This video helps explain it. Once you’re done with that, let’s move to

The JUNOs aren’t for another month but the party is starting soon, with CBC Music JUNOFest kicking off on April

What the hell is this? Are the aliens supervising our evolution preparing to interview before we blow ourselves up? Let’s

On March 4 and 5, 1977, a band called The Cockroaches was booked to play the El Mocambo at Spadina

I’m going to guess that Arcade Fire‘s performance at the 2022 Junos was a done deal weeks or even months

Field Trip, billed as Toronto’s downtown music and arts festival, has been AWOL for the last couple of years for

The first thing I’d do if I bought this place is scream “SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!” C’mon. You

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. You know what you need to do–but only after you read music news for March 17,

For about two years, the Yorkville neighbourhood in Toronto had some of the most fertile musical grounds in the world.

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