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Random music news for Monday, March 9, 2020

Yes, I’m glad for the extra daylight at the end of the day, but switching to DST is not healthy.

Aliens exist. Tom DeLonge will be proven right. Moving to music news for February 1, 2020… This is important: A

I got my first back-to-school school supplies email yesterday. Too soon, people. Too soon. And now, music news for July

Whilst browsing through a junk store on Sunday, a man stumbled across a VHS tape (remember those?) adore with a

There’s no question that streaming will continue to be A Thing in 2018. The question is, how much will streaming

VHS tapes? Collectible, sure. Valuable? Apparently. Michael points us to LoveAntiques.com which has a list of the most valuable VHS

It’s the morning of April 4. There’s 15 cm of fresh snow outside my door. It’s Monday. To say I’m

Before we set the lineup for this week’s show, we conducted a Twitter poll on whether we should cover the

The Great Format War of the 1980s pitted Sony’s Betamax video system against JVC’s VHS. Although Betamax was superior in

You’ve probably seen music videos YouTube where someone has obviously uploaded something they recorded on beta or VHS back in

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