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JUST IN: Doug Ford says Ontario moving to ban ticket resale gouging cp24.com/local/toronto/…

New music reel on Instagram from my daughter VXTORIA - please visit and show it some love while it’s up ❤️ #EDM #house #dance #HannahWants #ClementineDouglas instagram.com/reel/DWFP3kYEb…

I’m all for following Australia’s model but our governments aren’t interested

If we all lived according to @blogTO transit headlines, we’d be basket cases. I mean, get over yourselves. blogto.com/city/2026/03/g…

Happy Birthday @simoncurtis 🎂🎉🎉

@peacebisquit I’m seeing her concert in May! 2nd time after seeing her Central Park show in ‘24 🎶🎶

mood. YEBBA - Jean🎧✨ ▪️ yebba.lnk.to/jean

@vurnt22 Everything Everywhere All at Once was hailed as the first sci-fi film to win Best Picture

The Oscars are notoriously alternatively squeamish and dismissive of Horror & SciFi. Silence Of The Lambs is the only Horror film to win Best Picture. SciFi is mostly relegated to Visual Effects, Set Design & Makeup.

Because the @TorontoStar and a former Trustee of a school board now under supervision would know best right?? thestar.com/opinion/contri…

At last, some form of transportation gets it. I hope other public transit and airlines follow suit.

@SVG__Collection @IPhillips79 While she suffered from migraines, Tammy was not ill or diagnosed until late 1967. That was long after this recording. They recorded separate versions which were later turned into a duet.

Fun Fact: “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell was recorded in separate sessions because Tammi was already ill — their legendary chemistry was created entirely in the studio.

Dance producers - GO!!

#MidweekProgramming Wednesday Nights! 6pm-#RockNRollBandstand-Robert E Sox 7pm-#OldiesWithoutBorders-Professor Peter J. Maurin M.A. 9pm-#NewYorksBestRock-"Magic" Matt Craig 10pm-#TheBig20 - #NewMusic w-Bill Smith & James Rogers(More on Sat & Sun Nights) on hatonhillsonline.com

@MarkPanopoulos Cool to hear Mark.I learned that there is a listening session for this one in Toronto, but to attend you must enter and win a contest.

@billcs You're Right Bill, On another tie-in to something like this, a friend of mine who loves #OldRadio shows wrote an entertaining book on horror scripts of #OldRadio - Author - Frank Lawrence w-boomDEAD. A 2019 Listening Party @ the Casbah Lounge in #HamiltOnt, it was well received.

I wish that a Toronto record store would do something like this!

@SPIN “smash hit”???

Peaches shares her smash hit, 'Fuck the Pain Away' was a live recording. 🤯See what else she shares with @Scottlipps on Lipps Service Pod.

MUSIC INDUSTRY PRO TIP – Your response time can be your reputation. I've watched people lose real opportunities because they took 3 days to reply. In a relationship-driven industry, sometimes how fast you respond can signal how seriously you take someone.

@BrianZisook There are some artists who release nothing but songs under 2 minutes because in streaming it’s worth the same as a longer song, and that is just dumb from an artistic perspective.

The backlash against sub-3-minute songs ignores history. The average hit in the 1950s was 2:36! Vinyl kept songs short for two decades before FM radio stretched them out. Streaming incentives are compressing them again. Format has always shaped the music.

@BrianZisook Likewise! The printed word online lasts a long, long time so why not make submissions to blogs (like mine😁) for potential free publicity?

During the blog era, artists & managers routinely reached out to platforms directly. Real relationships were built. Then streaming took over, & artists handed that job to labels & distros. For most acts, that approach doesn’t work. Happy to see more artists retake control.

It takes legislation that can be shepherded through all of the required processes instead of stalling and then disappearing when an election is called.

@chartdata To not post the information suggests to me that you are in fact very aligned with Billboard, something I have suspected for years.