Arkells Unveil New Track “Human Being” Ft Lights

August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 Music Express

Arkells, Lights – Human Being – Photo by Nathan Nash Blink Twice To Be Released September 23 Includes “Dance With You” Featuring Lights Today, Arkells shared a new track, “Human Being,” featuring Lights, ahead of their seventh studio record, Blink Twice, coming September 23rd via Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. “We wanted a chaotic energy – something like Talking Heads meets Billy... Read More

Tim Hicks Announces 2022 ZERO TO SIXTY TOUR Cross-Canada Tour

June 19, 2022June 27, 2022 Music Express

Photo by – Lee Zavitz Multi-Platinum, award-winning entertainer Tim Hicks has announced his return to the live stage with the 2022 ZERO to SIXTY Tour. A combination of festival stops and headlining shows across Canada, Hicks expands the ZERO to SIXTY Tour with the addition of eight new shows featuring special guests and CCMA Award winner Robyn Ottolini. The new dates bring Hicks and his... Read More

Moist’s New Album ‘End of the Ocean’ OUT NOW

January 19, 2022March 22, 2022 Music Express

After almost 8 years since their 2014 release Glory Under Dangerous Skies, Canadian rockers Moist have shared their highly anticipated full-length End of The Ocean. Listen to the album here. To coincide with the album release, the band shared a nostalgic video for the album opener track “Ammunition.” Created by Moist bass player Jeff Pearce, the video is composed of old touring footage... Read More

2022 Love Someone Tour Dates Announced!

November 24, 2021November 27, 2021 Music Express

Johnny Reid has announced his 2022 Love Someone tour, set to be one of the longest-running artist tours in Canadian history with over one hundred shows once all tour dates are announced! Tickets for most shows go on sale: November 26th at 10 am (local time) Tartan Army Fan Club Presale: November 24th at 3 pm (local time) RSVP on Facebook... Read More

LORRAINE SEGATO Invincible Decency

March 3, 2015March 4, 2015 Keith Sharp

(Get Off My Dress Productions) That voice on that song in that band will always make things difficult for Lorraine Segato to separate herself from her former Parachute Club, but in releasing her first solo album in 15 years, Segato gives it a shot with 10 tracks that evoke a spirit of social optimism while at the same time recapturing... Read More

Ian Thomas – Little Dreams

November 15, 2012December 14, 2012 Keith Sharp

(Alma/Universal) It’s a good job Ian Thomas’s marriage to wife Catherine is going smoothly; otherwise he would have had a bitch of a time writing this album. No Adele, Taylor Swift or even Alanis Morissette flare-ups here! All is well in the Thomas household with five of the album’s 10 songs reflecting positively on their long-term relationship. Ian, himself is... Read More

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychadelic Pill

November 1, 2012December 14, 2012 Keith Sharp

(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

Colin James – Too Much of a Good Thing

October 26, 2012October 26, 2012 Keith Sharp

Every night during his current national tour, Colin James faces a major dilemma. What to include or exclude from that concert’s set list. With a brand new album, `Fifteen’ chock full of hot new tracks plus three stunning covers, James simply doesn’t have time during his 21-song performance to acknowledge his catalogue while accommodating the new material. Reached during a... Read More

Loverboy Launches Rock N Roll Revival

October 23, 2012October 24, 2012 Music Express

Loverboy is touring right through until December behind its latest album, Rock ‘N’ Roll Revival, and what’s truly a revival is that the legendary Vancouver rock act is on the road with Journey — for the first time in three decades. The two bands linked up this summer for more than 60 dates all over North America, including some upcoming... Read More

Four Dudes & A Lady

October 19, 2012October 19, 2012 Roman Mitz

So who is the good looking singer firing up her sparklers in the country music video for ‘A Little More Work’? That would be Kira Isabella, the bubbly brunette who is presently burning up the country charts with the single from her recently released debut album ‘Love Me Like That’. Isabella has a decade of experience under her belt performing... Read More

Billy Talent – Dead Silence

October 17, 2012December 14, 2012 Keith Sharp

(Warner Music) Yes, it’s finally here, after months of speculation, and the album actually boasts a title, other than Billy Talent ! Guitarist Ian D’Sa takes control of production and maintains the band’s punk rock drive while building on the band’s melodic lyrical flair. Yes you can call them Green Day lite, yet Billy Talent’s unpretentious rawness and powerful live... Read More

Helix – Best Of 1983-2012

October 17, 2012October 18, 2012 Keith Sharp

(Helix Records) Kitchener Ontario’s Helix is a band with a split personality. Live they are one of this country’s most dynamic on-stage performers with a heavy metal persona that rivals any major international live act. Yet on the radio; its soft rock, pop tracks like ` Gimme, Gimme Good Lovin’ and their A Foot In Cold Water’s `Make Me Do’... Read More

Glass Tiger – Then, Now, Next

October 9, 2012October 12, 2012 Keith Sharp

(EMI) Another Canuck institution who’s celebrated a return to the stage (opening for Roxette) by releasing a best of which also features three bonus tracks; “Stand Up (Give Yourself A Hand), “So Blind” and a cover of the Beatles’ “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away”. All the hit singles are here along with a few more obscure tracks; “I... Read More

Platinum Blonde – Now & Never

October 3, 2012December 14, 2012 Music Express

(Fontana North) Toss away any preconceptions of Platinum Blonde being another rehashed classic rock band. Fueled by the inclusion of two new members; bassist Rob Laidlaw and drummer Daniel Todd, vocalist Mark Holmes and guitarist Sergio Galli score with 10 tracks that bristle with a vibrancy that demand attention. Credit producer Murray Daigle with shaping the band’s dance/rock awareness in... Read More

The Tragically Hip – Now For Plan A

October 2, 2012October 16, 2012 Keith Sharp

(Universal) He’s done it again! Gord Downie will have pundits scrambling through their McNally Maps to figure out where the hell is Attawapiskat as in “Goodnight Attawapiskat”( of course it’s that Indian reserve that’s been crying for mobile housing). A trademark brainteaser in an album that reflects all the band’s positive virtues, stinging guitars swirling around Gord Downie’s poetic phraseology.... Read More

Jim Foster – A Sailor’s Advice

September 27, 2012October 12, 2012 Keith Sharp

(Qwest) Record seven songs with no headphones into your iPhone, run them through a Mac computer, add some stereo echo and the result is Jim Foster’s A Sailor’s Advice, as he notes, kinda like Sun Records gone digital. This amazingly efficient and cost effective recording method has produced an excellent set of acoustic guitar solos and plaintive folky lyrics, all... Read More

Cindy Church – Sad Songs Make Me Happy

September 27, 2012October 12, 2012 Keith Sharp

(Outside Music) As Church herself acknowledges in the album linear notes, the inspiration for this release was prompted by an acoustic session around her kitchen table when the rendition of a country tune prompted Cindy to confess that “sad songs make her happy” This prompted a very informal recording session which almost sounds like a home taping, Church’s plaintive vocals... Read More

BLUE RODEO – 1987-1993

September 27, 2012October 12, 2012 Keith Sharp

(Warner Music) Blue Rodeo fans are into an orgy of audio delights with the release of an eight-disc box set which features remastered versions of their intial five albums; `Outskirts’, `Diamond Mine’,` Casino’, `Lost Together’ and `Five Days In July’ plus a completely remixed version of `Outskirts’ plus and Odds And Ends Cd of new tracks and b-sides. Complete with... Read More

Jarvis Church – Soul Station Vol 01, The Songs Of Sam Cooke

September 27, 2012October 17, 2012 Keith Sharp

(EMI) You can’t say Jarvis Church (a.k.a Gerald Eaton) doesn’t have the vocal chops to pay tribute to the late great Sam Cooke, and this seven-song collection allows Church to put his own spin on the arrangements while staying faithful to the original material. Better known as the production partner of Brian West on the Track And Field team which... Read More

Grapes Of Wrath – Singles

September 27, 2012October 12, 2012 Keith Sharp

(EMI) Now that it’s all love and harmony in the Grapes Of Wrath camp, brothers Tom and Chris Hooper are reunited with Kevin Kane and have released a `Best Of’ to launch a national tour with talk of new material in 2013. Formerly noted as a Byrdsish, folk rock band when they launched out of hometown Kelowna B.C in 1982,... Read More

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