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Raine Maida – We All Get Lighter

Keith Sharp
Raine Maida – We All Get Lighter
(Warner Music Canada) Our Lady Peace lead vocalist Raine Maida continues to exhibit his lyrical and vocal flexibility with the release of his second solo record, We All Get Lighter. Supported on piano and backing vocals by the missus, Chantel Kreviazuk, Maida flaunts his unique, passionate vocal range with eight intense, melodic compositions that truly demonstrate his creative range. Various... Read More

Karen Bliss Wins CMW Award

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Karen Bliss Wins CMW Award
Congratulations to Music Express correspondent Karen Bliss who received Top Journalist award at the 31st Annual Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards staged Thursday March 21st at the Kool Haus venue in Toronto. Karen is a regular writer for ME and has posted features on Loverboy and Billy Talent and has filed concert reviews on Alanis Morissette, Justin Bieber and... Read More

Classic Clark

Roman Mitz
Classic Clark
Terri Clark might as well have called her new album Cloud Nine instead of Classic, because that’s where the singer/songwriter feels she’s residing after having the opportunity to record a bunch of her all time favourite country songs. The album includes standards like Emmylou Harris’ Two More Bottles Of Wine plus honky tonk nuggets like Merle Haggard’s Swinging Doors. What... Read More

Return of the Pretty Bad Boy

Keith Sharp
Return of the Pretty Bad Boy
It all started with Greg Godovitz’s Beatles’ collection. In a conversation with Dan Owen, owner of Calgary’s OCL studios, Greg Godovitz mentioned he had amassed a substantial collection of Beatles’ memorabilia. As a theme motif of Owen’s studio is the Beatles, he negotiated purchase of Godovitz’s collection – and at the same time offered the Goddo frontman a position as... Read More

Tom Cochrane to be honoured with the 2013 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award

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Tom Cochrane to be honoured with the 2013 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award
Toronto, ON (February 26, 2013) — The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) today announced Tom Cochrane as the recipient of the 2013 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award, sponsored by Bell Media.  Throughout his career, Cochrane has supported a wide variety of vital initiatives – from World Vision to Parkinson’s research. The Allan Waters Humanitarian Award recognizes outstanding Canadian artists... Read More

Selling Horseshoes – Neil Osborne in Conversation

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Selling Horseshoes – Neil Osborne in Conversation
Neil Osborne has witnessed many changes in the music landscape since the formation of 54-40. He has also seen many changes in himself over the years. In the beginning, Osborne was the angry young man on stage and record, railing against the machine and looking to change the world, but that stance has changed. “Well, I can only guess from... Read More

Here Comes Loverboy

Keith Sharp
Here Comes Loverboy
It was at a meeting with Fosterchild when I first bumped into Paul Dean, lead guitarist for Streetheart. I had just conducted a phone interview with the band’s keyboardist Daryl Guthiel but I hadn’t extracted much of an insight from him so I welcomed the opportunity to do an in person with Paul. He proved to be a very cordial... Read More

Nelly Furtado in Toronto

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Nelly Furtado in Toronto
January 24, 2013, Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto Outside, it was an extraordinarily cold Toronto evening but when Nelly Furtado took the stage at Toronto’s Sony Centre For Performing Arts, any thought of frozen fingers and features melted away. The soft-seater wasn’t the most ideal place for the BC-born pop singer; she needs to be in a place... Read More

The Jeff Healey Band – House On Fire

Keith Sharp
The Jeff Healey Band – House On Fire
(Eagle Rock North) Subtitled, The Jeff Healey Band Demos & Rarities, this 11-track recording, released to commemorate Healey’s untimely death on March 2nd 2008, is as suggested, a collection of demos from his vast vault of unreleased material including covers of Bruce Springsteen’s `Adam Raised A Cain’, Bob Seger’s We’ve Got Tonight and Bobby Whitlock’s Who’s Been Sleeping In My... Read More