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NEIL YOUNG + PROMISE OF THE REAL – THE MONSANTO YEARS

NEIL YOUNG + PROMISE OF THE REAL – THE MONSANTO YEARS
(Reprise Records) As the album title implies, this is a work about dust, hard work, and being taken for a ride by the Man. In this 21st century version of outrage, the symbol of the Man has been replaced by the Corporation, that vast descriptor for the power behind all things going wrong in the world, especially in North America.... Read More

Music Doc is Crowdfunding Some Hometown Pride

Music Doc is Crowdfunding Some Hometown Pride
Arkells Live at the Red Dog Peterborough-based Photographer & Director Michael Hurcomb was on a trip to Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, near Nashville a few years ago when he was asked by a travel buddy from Toronto, “So who has come from Peterborough that I would have heard of?” “I began naming musicians, actors, writers, athletes that had... Read More

RANDY BACHMAN TO LAUNCH HEAVY BLUES

RANDY BACHMAN TO LAUNCH HEAVY BLUES
(December 17 – Toronto, ON) The man known as the “architect of Canadian rock n’ roll” is forging ahead into 2015 with a brand new project billed simply as BACHMAN. Joined by a virtuoso rhythm section with Anna Ruddick on bass and Dale Anne Brendan on drums, the trio’s debut effort entitled Heavy Blues will be available worldwide on April... Read More

NEIL YOUNG – STORYTONE

NEIL YOUNG – STORYTONE
(Reprise Records) Storytone, Neil Young’s latest foray in the work of recorded music, consists of 10 songs recorded twice. Firstly, as minimal acoustic versions with Young singing with piano or guitar and secondly, as full-production versions recorded live with a 92 piece orchestra and choir, and a big band ensemble. Young’s plaintive voice, as distinct as a prairie whisper, adds... Read More

Astrid Young: Emerging From The Shadows

Astrid Young: Emerging From The Shadows
Having to deal with the deaths of both her parents; Scott Young and Astrid Mead, just three months apart in 2005, Astrid Young faced a severe self-examination about what motivated her to continue to be creative. Now ensconced in the Prince Edward wine region centred around Picton, Ontario, Neil Young’s half-sister needed time to revive that creative spark she thought... Read More

ASTRID YOUNG – One Night At Giant Rock

ASTRID YOUNG – One Night At Giant Rock
(Tangerine Records) The title refers to a giant boulder located in California’s Mojave Desert. Located nearby is a spherical building called the Integraton, built in 1959 by one George Van Tassell which supposedly held the powers of time travel and regeneration, elements that can best describe Astrid Young’s first studio record in 10 years. Neil Young’s half-sister has put aside... Read More

HEADSTONES & RUSH BIG WINNERS OF 2014 MUSIC EXPRESS AWARDS

HEADSTONES & RUSH BIG WINNERS OF 2014 MUSIC EXPRESS AWARDS
More than 10,000 Music Express readers have cast their on-line ballot for the Long & McQuade 2014 Music Express Awards with Rush and The Headstones leading the way with three awards each. Rush, who claimed three ME awards in 2013, repeated again this year, winning Top Group, Top Live Performance (Arena) and Top Compilation Release for their Clockwork Angels-Live Rock... Read More

NEIL YOUNG – ACFN LIVE : “MOTHER EARTH”

NEIL YOUNG – ACFN LIVE : “MOTHER EARTH”
Recently Neil Young completed a brief tour of his native Canada consisting of four benefit concerts under the banner of “Honor The Treaties.” (we covered this last week here – Ed.) The nature of these shows were assembled to raise money and awareness for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) Legal Defense Fund. The ACFN refer to themselves as K’ai... Read More

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychadelic Pill

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychadelic Pill
(Warner Music Canada) There are some Neil Young fans that will delight in the idea of being exposed to a 27-minute lead-off track (`Driftin Away’)…and then there are the rest of us! Fans who caught Young rejoining Crazy Horse’s Frank Sampedro, Ralph Molina and Billy Talbot after an eight-year hiatus would have been warned of this album’s extended contents when... Read More