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Polaris Short List

Polaris Music Prize – Short List Announced!

Hey Canada! Hey world!  The Polaris Music Prize has officially revealed their Short List of awesome Canadian talent.    A huge congratulations to all of the artists, what a group!  What’s especially exciting is that one of these ten stellar artists will not only take home the Polaris Music Prize but this year they will also […]

Darlene Koldenhoven

An Interview with GRAMMY® Winner Darlene Koldenhoven.

It’s not everyday that you get to speak to a GRAMMY® Award winning artist… Well, I guess we get to do that a little more often than your average Joe 😉  That said, we are beyond excited to share a wonderfully candid interview with none other than Darlene Koldenhoven. Our very own David Gurtina asks […]

music beer wine photo

Music, Beer, Wine; A Flight of Fancy

The connection between wine, beer, and popular music runs deep. From classic pop songs like Neil Diamond’s “Red Red Wine” to country singer Luke Combs’ boozy lament “Beer Never Broke My Heart”, Whitesnake’s “Wine, Women, an’ Song” to Toby Keith’s “Beer for My Horses”, the two beverages have been fodder for generations of songwriters. It […]

The Dos and Don’ts of Podcasting

I have a secret. Shhhhh… Along with writing blogs for Play MPE, I have a side hustle – or is Play MPE my side hustle? Regardless, I have one, and it might surprise you. I host a weekly show on SiriusXM’s VOLUME channel. It’s called WHOOOSH!, and a new episode airs every Wednesday at 9pm, […]

Sharon Cho

An Interview With Sharon Cho, Artist Manager

Sharon Cho is a New York based Artist Manager who has been working with musicians both established and developing since she started her career. Unlike most music vets we speak to at PLAY MPE, Sharon wasn’t sure what role she wanted in the industry, but quickly found out management was her thing: I started working […]

Punching gloves

Punching Above Our Weight

For a relatively sparsely populated country, Canada is often lauded for having an outsized cultural footprint in comedy, film, and, of course, music. Essentially – a reputation for punching above our weight creatively. There’s evidence that our cultural footprint has been growing for some time now – some based on metrics such as royalties, which […]

Space

SPACE: May the 4th be with you!

May the 4th be with you! OK, if you don’t get that reference, you’ve probably never seen STAR WARS, which would be a darn shame! Entertainment has certainly used space as a theme for many movies, TV shows and yes, songs. From television shows like “The Outer Limits,” “Star Trek” and “The Twilight Zone” to movies […]