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Jann Arden to perform from The Canadian Music Hall of Fame at The 2021 JUNO Awards on CBC Meet the newest inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame: @jannarden. Watch as she performs at @TheJUNOAwards from her hometown at Calgary’s Studio Bell (home of the @nmc_canada) on June 6th. Tune in on @CBC and globally at cbcmusic.ca/junos... https://themusicexpress.ca/24553-2/

Sheepdogs Cook Up Recipe For Unpretentious Rock By Keith Sharp When you are a rock band whose virtual existence is based on constant touring and recording, it comes as a major shock to your system when those options are taken away from you.... This was the reality, Saskatoon-based rockers, the Sheepdogs faced when the COVID-19 epidemic reared its ugly head last year and eradicated all present and future touring activities. March 20th last year we were all set to tour with The Black Keys and then we planned to go to Portland (Oregon) to record a new album and then all of that stuff got washed away by the epidemic, explained lead vocalist Ewan Currie... READ MORE HERE https://themusicexpress.ca/sheepdogs-cook-up-recipe-for-un/

It's the perfect listen for the Canadian May 24 Weekend! The Tragically Hip Release Saskadelphia 6-Track EP is available here to stream: https://thehip.lnk.to/Saskadelphia Saskadelphia (Universal Music Canada/UMe) is made up of six previously unreleased tracks written in 1990. Five recorded in that same year during the Road Apples sessions in New Orleans, and one live track, Montreal (Live from The Molson Centre, Montreal, Dec 7th, 2000), were written at the same time, but ...for which the original recording is yet to be found...Until Now!... #thetragicallyhip #Saskadelphia READ THE RELEASE NOTES HERE https://themusicexpress.ca/welcome-to-saskadelphia-the-tra/

By Keith Sharp Live from Neill Dixon’s house, it’s the 2021 Canadian Music Week Conference. Call it a sign of the times if you will but Canada’s 38th annual national music industry gathering set to run between Tuesday, May 18th to Friday, May 21st will go totally virtual. This means that delegates who register for this year’s conference will need to communicate, and network with the 250 or so guest speakers online. All the artists registered for this festival’s talent showcas...e will have to pre-record their performances and all of the CMW’s trademark gala award dinner events have been eliminated with just the Jim Beam Indie Awards going ahead virtually with appearances by July Talk, MONOWHALES, Sam Roberts Band, and Half Moon Run performing live, and streamed from the El Mocambo on Sunday, May 30th...READ MORE https://themusicexpress.ca/its-a-sign-of-the-times-cmw-con/ See more

Tony Banks Phil Collins Mike Rutherford Return to North America for the First Time in 14 Years! Genesis has announced their highly anticipated return to North America for the first time in 14 years with The Last Domino? tour dates that will have Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford, playing major cities across the U.S. and Canada this November and December 2021. The group will be joined by Nic Collins on drums, and the band’s long-time lead guitar and bass player... Daryl Stuermer. https://themusicexpress.ca/genesis-announce-canadian-dates/

Roman Mitz ME's Open Spaces columnist interviews Tim Hicks and other Country Stuff - By Roman Mitz While Tim Hicks is known for his raucous live shows and the party atmosphere surrounding them, his evolution as a performer had humble beginnings, as he charmed bar patrons nightly with a vast repertoire of solo acoustic material designed to please a crowd. His latest EP, Campfire Troubadour pulls from this model, reimagining Tim’s chart-topping sound for a more intimate sett...ing, as much at home in a fireside jam as it would be in the unassuming rooms he once played. The opening song Slow sets the tone for the EP, and if you listen closely, you’ll hear embers crackling and crickets chirping. It’s funny because Jeff Coplan, who produced the EP, said he was going to light a fire in his backyard and add some sound effects, says Tim, who’s calling from his Niagara region home. I said that would be neat, but I thought to myself that it would never make it to the final mix. But it worked, and when I heard it in context, I thought it leant the record a real vibe...READ MORE https://themusicexpress.ca/tim-hicks-campfire-troubadour/

Two-time JUNO Award-winning rock band, The Glorious Sons drop the unexpected new song Daylight, today released independently by the group and distributed via award-winning label Black Box. Produced by The Glorious Sons and written by Brett Emmons, Jay Emmons, Chris Koster, Adam Paquette and Josh Hewson, Daylight displays the unpredictable unmitigated kind of sonic catharsis fueled by emotion and unfiltered intensity that offers an awakening to the mind and body and invites audiences to wholly experience the band’s palpable energy. READ MORE https://themusicexpress.ca/the-glorious-sons-daylight-avai/

ME NEWS - May 2021 - Exclusive Stories, Interviews, Reviews, and Releases. Featuring - Crown Lands, Cory Marks, Juno's 50th - The Tragically with Feist, Jann Arden, July Talk, Neon Dream, CMW Goes Virtual! https://mailchi.mp/886d77d59ba7/themusicexpressca-5365338

Cory Marks Merges Country With Hard Rock For Gold Record Success By Keith Sharp If Merle Haggard recorded a duet with the heavy metal group, Pantera (produced by Kevin Churko) it would probably sound like Cory Marks’ latest single Blame It On The Double. Blending Country with hard rock has become the trademark of this North Bay Ontario native with Theory Of A Deadman’s Tyler Connelly and former Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook supplying the incendiary instrument...al support to Marks countrified vocals on his latest single...READ MORE https://themusicexpress.ca/marks-merges-country-with-hard-/

Juno Nominated Crown Lands Flaunt The Big Sound Of Their Two-Person Set Up In Performance Video For Context: Fearless Pt. 1, Out Today After releasing live versions of their two previously released songs Context: Fearless Pt. 1 and Right Way Back earlier this month, today, Juno-nominated, Canadian rock duo Crown Lands Cody Bowles (vocals and drums) and Kevin Comeau (guitar, bass, and keys) share the masterful performance video for Context: Fearless Pt. 1 through Spinefarm Records and Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company... READ MORE HERE https://themusicexpress.ca/juno-nominated-crown-lands-flau/

By Keith Sharp If you were to summarize the legacy of Jann Arden, the definitive description would be Communication. Aside from recording 17 albums (12 studio, three compilations, two live recordings) the Calgary native has penned no less than five best-selling books, starred in her own CTV television sitcom (going into its third season), guest-starred in a number of other popular tv series (Ellen, Corner Gas, Robson Arms, Working Moms, The Rick Mercer Report to name just a... few), has won eight Junos and 10 SOCAN awards and has received a number of plaudits including a star on Canada’s Walk Of Fame (2006), an Order Of Canada recognition (December 2017) and in 2020 Jann was inducted into Canada’s Music Hall Of Fame. https://themusicexpress.ca/communication-is-the-key-to-jan/

We’re really happy to be performing on The 50th Annual JUNO Awards, said the band. We’ve known Leslie Feist for over 20 years, having toured together in 1999. We are all huge fans and Gord loved her. It’s an honour to be able to play one of our songs with her. It’s been such a difficult year for our fellow musicians, we wanted to do something to honour them in a way that would make Gord smile. https://themusicexpress.ca/the-tragically-hip-set-to-perfo/

Canadian Music Week and The INDIES are thrilled to present a full concert by July Talk, on Thursday, May 27 at 8pmET. Fans are invited to watch virtually from anywhere broadcasting on Sessions. Tickets are on sale now at sessionslive.com/JulyTalk. The July Talk concert features the full band, pre-recorded at the legendary El Mocambo Tavern in Toronto. July Talk is nominated for two awards at the 2021 Jim Beam INDIE Awards. July Talk continues to rise with purpose and poise.... The band stormed in with the flinty rock n’ roll of their debut, followed by the volatile siren songs of Touch, an album of sawtoothed pop + convulsing tension. Pray For It, July Talk acknowledges the power of vulnerability as a way to begin again. Their churning and fiercely physical performances make spaces hiss and hum, spit and seethe in glorious, artful abandon. https://themusicexpress.ca/july-talk-concert-broadcast-pre/

Canadian Music Week is pleased to partner with Hot Docs to present four Canadian music documentaries as part of the 2021 CMW Virtual Festival May 18 21, 2021. CMW Conference registrants and Hot Docs members will have access to the premiere of No Tickets At The Door, and notable works from the Hot Docs archives including I’m Going To Break Your Heart, Feist: Look What the Light Did Now, and 6ix Rising. In addition to the Hot Docs films, the CMW Virtual Conference event will ...feature keynote speakers, networking sessions, breakout rooms, one-on-one meetings, exhibitors, the International Marketplace, and Q & A Sessions.CMW Virtual Conference will present In Conversation with Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk, hosted by Bob Lefsetz, Thursday, May 20. Raine Maida will also appear on the Ch-Ch-Changes: What’s New in Tech & Tunes in 2021 panel on Friday, May 21. Registration is open now...READ MORE https://themusicexpress.ca/canadian-music-week-presents-fo/

Neon Dreams To Perform Live From South Africa All Proceeds To Be Donated To Human Rights Organization The Justice Desk... Award-winning Canadian duo Neon Dreams are the first international music group to tour South Africa since the Covid19 lockdown. With sold-out tours in most major cities and towns across the nation, fans have been clamouring for tickets to hear their hits performed live, including their number one single, Life Without Fantasies....READ MORE https://themusicexpress.ca/youre-invited-neon-dreams-to-pe/

In partnership with theatres, festivals and performing arts centres across Canada and the United States, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy present their annua...l Celtic Family Christmas Tour- Virtually! Helping out the venues is as important to artists as getting themselves back on the road. Click "LEARN MORE" to purchase tickets from your local venue to support them through these challenging times!

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We are saddened by the loss of Bones Hillman. Midnight Oils Lose Bassist/Vocalist Bones Hillman To Cancer November 8, 2020, By Keith Sharp Midnight Oils Lose Bassist/Vocalist Bones Hillman To Cancer... Bones Hillman, the long-time bass guitarist and backing vocalist for Midnight Oil died Saturday (November 7) after battling cancer. The band announced the news on their Facebook page; Hillman was 62. Hillman, born Wayne Stevens, joined the Australian rock band in 1987 replacing Peter Gifford. The group were originally formed in 1972 in Sydney as Farm and changed their name to Midnight Oil in 1976. They issued their self-titled debut in 1978 and achieved worldwide acclaim nearly a decade later with the release of 1987’s Diesel and Dust which included the single Beds Are Burning. Hillman replaced Gifford after the band recorded the album. READ MORE HERE https://themusicexpress.ca/midnight-oils-lose-bassistvocal/