@thebillcs.bsky.social
#BILLCSMusicBlog for 16 yrs (3,000+ posts), music consultant, online announcer, historian, #BILLCSTop30 chart since '98. I write about great new music. Toronto ON https://www.linktr.ee/billcs777
@bigstirrecords.bsky.social
02.03.2026 22:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today at 6pm EST, The MAPL Tapes show #2 brings you another fast-paced hour of new and older music by Canadian performers, and the featured guest artist is Peterborough's Nicholas Campbell!
Be sure to tune in to www.haltonhillsonline.com
The Poppy Family will eventually get its due but my retro pick this week is Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1)".
02.03.2026 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seeds - Mar 1
"GRIND" (G)
🍎 Fruiting - Score: 81
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another hard one
50 years ago today - March 1, 1976 - release of the single "Shout It Out Loud" from KISS. Reached #31 in US and #1 in Canada their best territory for the single.
01.03.2026 13:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Show #1 of The MAPL Tapes is now available on Mixcloud for your listening pleasure #Canadian #musichistory #pop #rock #music www.mixcloud.com/bill-smith8/...
01.03.2026 01:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02/2 There are probably some very nice people who are also quite happy to blast their music or speaker phone calls and annoy the rest of us. I don't know what the solution is. I don't expect people to sacrifice paying for food to get headphones.
01.03.2026 00:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01/2 Something real and affordable needs to be done to encourage people to use #headphones again. Back when cell phone providers gave them to users with their phones, it was smuch different. Now, it's simply noise pollution and inconsideration.
01.03.2026 00:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks, seems like it ☺️
28.02.2026 22:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seeds - Feb 28
"FLINT" (N)
🍎 Fruiting - Score: 89
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@nathaliemiranda.bsky.social
28.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The former
28.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The version that hit #1 in Canada was by The THP Orchestra, a Canadian group. That's because the Rhythm Heritage version was dropped from charts when its label was in the midst of switching distributors - no product to sell. So its former distributor took advantage of the gap and signed THP.
28.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 03/3 For older favourites, Russ Horton's amazing Top 40 Timeline has it all at 4pm EST on haltonhillsonline.com! including my retro pick of the week "That's Where I Went Wrong" by The Poppy Family (postponed from last week, which was a repeat)!
28.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 02/3 My new music pick of the week for this show is "Better Off" by Will Swinton!
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1/3 Tune in today to haltonhillsonline.com for my show The Big 20 - at 6pm EST - and for Your Weekend New Music Mix - at 8pm EST! The Weekend Mix has been refreshed including excerpts of artist interviews!
28.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The debut episode of my show The MAPL Tapes airs again today at 8pm EST on KHPR www.katradiogroup.ca - tune in to listen to this all-Canadian hour!
27.02.2026 23:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
RIP Neil Sedaka, 86, whose career started in the late 1950's and through to the 1980's after a comeback in 1974 . "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", "Laughter in the Rain", "Bad Blood", and as a writer, "Love Will Keep Us Together" among many. variety.com/2026/music/n...
27.02.2026 22:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Seeds - Feb 27
"TWIST" (T)
🍇 Ripe - Score: 100
2 in a row 😎@michaeltnorton.bsky.social
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Two years before they had a #1 in the UK with “Geno” youtu.be/Z5KgMUgvtig?...
27.02.2026 04:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There are also picks of the week by Will Swinton, Young the Giant, and Sienna Spiro!
27.02.2026 02:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@bigstirrecords.bsky.social
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BILLCS New Music Report - February 26/26 with new songs by Tyler Hilton, DJ Georgie Porgie &Jason Walker, Borgeous, Empire Child, Mountain Head, and The Legal Matters. And... Introducing The MAPL Tapes!
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This week's edition of the BILLCS New Music Report arrives after 9pm EST, watch for it! #newmusic
26.02.2026 23:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seeds - Feb 26
"SPINE" (E)
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My first 100!! @michaeltnorton.bsky.social
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The BILLCS Top 30 Archive is now updated and includes almost 2900 songs which charted from January 1998 up to Monday's chart #738.
www.tinyurl.com/BILLCSTop30A...