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Random Music News for Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Me and The Wife just saw Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in Arrival. It took us a while to figure

Don’t let the last of the summer slip into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the summer!

Isn’t it amazing that every four years we become fans and experts at sports we normally don’t care about? Guilty

July 31, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Viola Beach

Things were going well for Viola Beach, a four-piece British indie band touted for success by people such as Coldplay’s

Damn. I missed Einstein’s birthday yesterday. Go here to catch up. And now, the music news… Brian Johnson is not

On this day in 1979, it was so cold that it snowed in southern Sudan. That’s the Sahara Desert. Never happened

All four members of Viola Beach, an indie band based out of Warrington in the UK, were killed along with

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 […]
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