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In 2000 we launched (now simply BraveWords) and we’ve led the charge in covering the hard rock/metal world with the most up-to-date news, features, reviews and of course our famous playground the BraveBoard.
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And to this date, I’m still involved with the web’s oldest metal station, HardRadio. BraveRadio Weekly was born at Virtually Canadian in the mid ‘90s and soon I would be programming all the hard rock/metal stations for Iceberg Radio (the company’s new moniker) at the famed CFRB building at Yonge & St. Radio and video was and still is a passion, where I had stints as an intern on MuchMusic’s Power Hour program, as well as gigs at 97.7 HTZ FM in St. Soon the magazine would be available in over 40 countries around the world, with a production run of nearly 50,000. BW&BK (as it would soon be known) became the chain’s biggest selling magazine being distributed in over 100 stores. A scant few hundred copies were produced of issue #1 and Canada’s longest running metal magazine was born! I would balance the magazine and my duties as a buyer at HMV, (proudly) building the 333 Metal Section into a $1 million-plus grossing sales department, making it one of the biggest metal departments in the world. Upon uniting with Martin Popoff in early 1994, it soon became Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles (named after the infamous Agony Column album which has been metallically blessed by the band!) and the first issue appeared in March. magazine, the “Metal” Tim Bits fanzine was launched in 1993 as a stapled freebie handed out to customers at HMV’s flagship superstore in downtown Toronto. Schooled in Barrie, Ontario where the power of music germinated within me, the addiction formally began at Hamilton’s McMaster University (I graduated with two Bachelor Of arts degrees: Economics and Political Science) in 1990 where I hosted two weekly radio shows on campus station 93.3 CFMU. I’ve been waving the flag of hard rock and heavy metal around the world for over 30 years, in the fields of publishing, retail, radio and on the ‘net.
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