Madeline Merlo Releases Alluring New Video For Latest Single, “Kiss Kiss”

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Music Express

Songland Season 2 Winner’s Visual Premieres With CMT Music and CMT.com Rising star Madeline Merlo released a sultry new visual for her latest single “Kiss Kiss” today – the video premiered exclusively with CMT Music and CMT.com, and offers viewers an element of mystery, depicting Merlo attending a masquerade with her love interest. “The video for ‘Kiss Kiss’ mirrors a... Read More

John Oates & The Good Road Band ‘Live In Nashville’ Set For September 18th Release

August 1, 2020August 3, 2020 Music Express

Four new originals along with covers of Mississippi John Hurt, Jimmy Rogers, Don Gibson highlight second Thirty Tigers album Roll Hall of Famer John Oates has had a home in Nashville for more than a decade, performing with some of the city’s most sought-after musicians. John’s Thirty Tigers debut, Arkansas, performed with The Good Road Band, was released in 2018, proving... Read More

Watch: Scott Helman’s Emotional Video For Papa

July 28, 2020 Music Express

New Album Nonsuch Park (sa) Out September 4 Scott Helman has shared an emotional new video for his new track “Papa,” a tribute to his late grandfather Alan who passed away last summer. Scott created a strikingly raw video to accompany the release, sharing his completely unedited reaction while watching the personal home video footage for the very first time.... Read More

Peter Green, Original Fleetwood Mac Founder, Passes Away

July 26, 2020July 26, 2020 Keith Sharp

For those Fleetwood Mac fans who can only remember the band’s hit-laden Fleetwood Mac and Rumours albums of 1975 & 1977, it should be noted that well before Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks came along and turned the band into a multi-million selling, hit-making, pop-rock machine, the original Fleetwood Mac were a solid blues-based band built around the guitar histrionics... Read More

Fionn Battles Their Critics With Tongue-In-Cheek EP Release

July 22, 2020 Keith Sharp

In the past seven years, Brianne and Alanna Finn-Morris, known collectively as Fionn, have graduated from busking Taylor Swift songs, at the age of 12 at Vancouver’s Granville Island location to release their second EP, “Everyone’s A Critic” on the prestigious 604 Records indie label (Nickelback, Theory of A Dead Man, Carly Rae Jepsen) Spurred on by their classical music... Read More

Protest The Hero Takes Progressive Metal To A New Level

July 13, 2020 Keith Sharp

Google the word `Palimpsest’ and the explanation you will receive describes a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces of the original remain. If the above description seems to be a bit convoluted, then you get the idea of the lyrical infusion of... Read More

Corb Lund: Home On the Range

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 Roman Mitz

Corb Lund 2020 – Photo by Noah Fallis The song “Home On the Range” may as well have been written about Corb Lund. A rural Albertan hailing from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with a long family lineage of ranchers and rodeo people, Corb is about as authentic as they come. Before his stint with his band the Hurtin’... Read More

Jesse Cook – Multi-Award Winning Internationally Acclaimed Guitarist, Composer & Producer – Celebrates “Tempest” 25 Years Later With a New Version

July 4, 2020 Music Express

Award-winning, multi-platinum and gold selling, and Internationally acclaimed guitarist, composer and producer Jesse Cook knows a thing or two about unexpected turns in the road. In fact, his whole storied career is because of one. For starters, the multi-talented virtuoso was one foot out the door, just about to set out on his highly anticipated Tempest 25 Tour this past... Read More

USB Key Prompts Renewed Mitchell Activity

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 Keith Sharp

By Keith Sharp Kim Mitchell likens the experience of recording his latest solo record `The Big Fantasize’ to a vintage car backing out of its garage for a final spin around the block. Celebrating his first studio release since his 2007 `Ain`t Life Amazing’ and debuting on Michael Wekerle’s recently launched El Mocambo Records, Mitchell teamed up with noted producer,... Read More

It Was Worth The Wait For Alessia

June 30, 2020July 1, 2020 Music Express

It took three months for Alessia Cara to get around to it but Monday, June 29th, the 23-year old Brampton Ontario finally hosted the 2020 Juno Awards, albeit virally after the original televised presentation in Saskatoon originally scheduled for Sunday, March 15th, was cancelled due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. And last night’s viral ceremony proved to be a personal... Read More

For Big Pacific’s Roly Sandoval, Patience Is A Virtue

June 29, 2020July 3, 2020 Keith Sharp

By Keith Sharp Roly Sandoval of Big Pacific always harboured aspirations of performing in a successful rock band. He had been a member in Calgary-based outfits like All The Rage In Paris (which dissolved when keyboardist Doug Johnson left to join Loverboy) and spent 20 years playing with local cover band TR3 . But it wasn’t until Sandoval moved to Nanaimo BC... Read More

Corb Lund Releases Long-Anticipated New Album Agricultural Tragic

June 27, 2020June 27, 2020 Music Express

“The songs on Agricultural Tragic sparkle with a kind of authenticity that only someone who lives that life can project.” –American Songwriter “Do yourself a favour and get your freshly sanitized hands on a copy of the new (album)… Pre-empting any hype or hyperbole, Agricultural Tragic is a record with instantly detectable depth and energy.” -Edmonton Journal “Eloquent and plainspoken,... Read More

El Mocambo Records Signs Canadian Rock Icon And Songwriter Kim Mitchell

June 26, 2020June 28, 2020 Music Express

First Single “Wishes” Release June 26th El Mocambo Records proudly announces the signing of multi-platinum, JUNO Award-winning Rock icon and Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame inductee Kim Mitchell to its roster that includes 54.40, Hutch and A Family Curse. The signing includes the release of Mitchell’s brand new single “Wishes” set for release on June 26th and coincides with the highly anticipated release... Read More

JUNO Award-Nominated GIRL POW-R Send Gratitude To Frontline Workers In New Single, “Thanks To You”

June 25, 2020June 27, 2020 Music Express

JUNO Award-nominated and chart-topping Canadian all-girl teen pop supergroup Girl Pow-R have reimagined their hit single “This Is Us” into a visionary, uplifting anthem expressing immense gratitude for frontline workers during COVID-19. “Thanks To You” is available now! “COVID-19 has changed everyone’s life,” says the band, “but more than anyone else, it is the frontline workers who have been there,... Read More

Blues Guitar Technique Sparks Wide Mouth Mason’s New Opus

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 Keith Sharp

By Keith Sharp How ironic is it that as Saskatoon’s Wide Mouth Mason released their eighth studio album, `I Wanna Go With You’ with its togetherness and travel lyrical themes, that a COVID-19 virus would come along and totally disrupt such activities. On the phone from his Vancouver residence, guitarist/lead vocalist Shaun Verreault expressed his obvious frustration, that he and... Read More

Hawksley Workman Debuts New Single + Video “JUST A DREAM” From Upcoming LP

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 Music Express

Award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Hawksley Workman premieres a new single via Isadora Records/The Orchard titled “Just a Dream”. The introspective, ethereal track is co-written and produced by Marcus Paquin, who has produced and engineered dozens of records including Grammy award-winning album The Suburbs by Arcade Fire and The National’s Grammy-nominated album Trouble Will Find Me. “Just a Dream” was added... Read More

DOWNCHILD 50th Anniversary CD “Live At The Toronto Jazz Festival” Released August 14, 202

June 22, 2020 Music Express

One year ago today to the day, The Legendary Downchild Blues Band shut down Bloor Street West in Toronto to kick off their 50th Anniversary Tour in Canada, with a blues party for the ages at the TD Toronto Jazz Festival, to over 10,000 fans, who packed the street to catch a glimpse of the world-renowned band. To mark the... Read More

Dion – The Blues Wanderer

June 22, 2020June 27, 2020 Roman Mitz

“Dion DiMucci knows how to sing and he knows just the right way to craft these songs, these blues songs.” This quote is taken from the liner notes of Dion’s terrific new album “Blues With Friends” and, as endorsements go, you couldn’t get a better one as the sentiment comes from none other than Bob Dylan. Most folks are familiar... Read More

Anthem Entertainment And iheartradio Canada’s Pure Country Stations Announce Gord Bamford’s Real Country Livin’ Father’s Day Special

June 18, 2020June 22, 2020 Music Express

Anthem Entertainment, one of the world’s leading independent music and entertainment content and services companies, and iHeartRadio Canada’s PURE COUNTRY, Canada’s first-ever national country music radio brand, today announced their exclusive partnership and launch of Gord Bamford’s Real Country Livin’ Father’s Day Special – a 60-minute music-based broadcast, podcast and live stream devoted to Father’s Day. The production features and... Read More

Tim Hicks Announces Wreck This EP Available On Digital Platforms June 26

June 18, 2020 Music Express

Four-time JUNO Award nominee and platinum-selling CCMA Award winner Tim Hicksannounced today the release of his highly anticipated new EP Wreck This, available on all digital platforms June 26 via Open Road Recordings. Wreck This, produced by Hicks’ long-time collaborator Jeff Coplan, features three brand new tracks combined with Hicks’ previously released three-pack Wreck, including his current Top 10 single “No Truck Song”, which continues... Read More

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