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 EMMYLOU HARRIS
Hard Bargain
www.emmylouharris.com
Dist: Warner Music Canada
Already celebrated as a discoverer and interpreter of other artists' songs, 12-time Grammy® Award-winner Emmylou Harris has, in the last decade, become admired as much for her eloquently straightforward songwriting as for her incomparably expressive singing. On Hard Bargain, her third Nonesuch disc, she offers 11 original songs - three of them co-written with Grammy® and Oscar-winning composer Will Jennings - that touch on the autobiographical while reaching for the universal. She pays tribute to lost friends like her legendary mentor Gram Parsons ("The Road") and her frequent collaborator, the late Kate McGarrigle ("Darlin' Kate"), and also finds poignancy and fresh meaning in events both historical and personal.
 AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
All At Once
aao.theairbornetoxicevent.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada
The Airborne Toxic Event is an American indie rock band from Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California. It consists of Mikel Jollett (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steven Chen (guitar, keyboards), Noah Harmon (electric bass, upright bass, backing vocals), Daren Taylor (drums) and Anna Bulbrook (viola, keyboards, tambourine, backing vocals).Deluxe Edition includes 13 videos. 11 acoustic videos of every song on the album and 2 broadcast videos for Changing and Numb.
 SÉAN McCANN
Son Of A Sailor
www.greatbigsean.com
Dist: Warner Music Canada
 As a follow up to last year’s release, Lullabies for Bloodshot Eyes, Great Big Sea’s Séan McCann returns with the release of his second solo effort, Son of a Sailor. Having grown up in Newfoundland and spending nearly 18 years touring with the band, it’s not difficult to hear the musical and maritime influences on songs like ―Rather Be a Sailor‖ and the title track. Drawing inspiration from the road, family, home, love and longing, Son of a Sailor provides the listener with a collection of first person narratives.
 GLASVEGAS
Euphoric Heartbreak
www.glasvegas.net
Dist: Sony Music Canada
The album ‘Euphoric Heartbreak was recorded with legendary producer flood and features eleven brand new tunes. The album encompasses emotional highs and lows, classic songwriting and heartfelt lyrics. ‘Take My Hand’ is the first single to be released from the eagerly anticipated second album from Glasvegas. Already greeted by fans as a new favourite (as seen on a short Scottish tour in January) the track is a majestic, soaring anthem accompanied by a driving guitar riff.
 TEXAS IN JULY
One Reality
www.myspace.com/texasinjuly
Dist: Warner Music Canada
Despite being young by conventional standards, only just out of high school, Texas In July has already garnered an impressive following in the hardcore world. Their first album in 2009 sold over 3,000 copies from touring and world of mouth alone, and One Reality, their Equal Vision Records debut, is hotly anticipated.
 MIRACLE FORTRESS
Was I The Wave?
www.miraclefortress.com
Dist: EMI Music Canada
Was I the Wave? is the long-awaited follow-up to Miracle Fortress’s debut, Five Roses. The Polaris Prize shortlisted album was a rapidly embraced collection of summery pop with a fuzzy twist, a kind of 60s homage draped over early 90s shoegaze. Though it will no doubt be labeled by some as a radical departure from Five Roses, you could argue that Was I the Wave? Is also somehow a logical extension of this approach; Van Pelt digests 80s synths and club sounds filters it through a full spectrum of electronic touchstones from the last two decades.
 ROBERT JOHNSON
The Centennial Collection
Dist: Sony Music Canada
One hundred years ago, a child was born in Mississippi – a poor, African- American boy who would grow up, learn to sing and play the blues, and eventually achieve worldwide renown. In the decades after his death, he has become known as the King of the Delta Blues Singers, his music expanding in influence to the point that rock stars of the greatest magnitude – the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers – all sing his praise and have recorded his songs. That child was Robert Johnson.
The Centennial Collection is an update of the Grammy-winning, 2-CD box set that caused a remarkable media sensation and sold over a million copies when released in 1990. The discs will again include all 42 of Johnson’s recorded tracks (including alternate takes) remastered using technological advances of the past twenty years. In addition, new essays, photographs, information and testimonials from various music legends will be included in the accompanying booklet.
 HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS
No Help Coming
www.hollygolightlyandthebrokeoffs.com
Dist: Sony Music Canada
No Help Coming is the fourth full-length release by Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, and the latest of nearly 30 albums on which the veteran indie icon is featured. Her current outfit, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, is a stripped-down duo that teams her with Texas-bred multi-instrumentalist and longtime collaborator Lawyer Dave, who contributes guitar, drums and backing vocals. On No Help Coming, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs continue to make music that’s spare and earthy yet unfailingly tuneful, drawing upon gritty blues, country and rockabilly influences while maintaining an unmistakable personal resonance.
 BOOTSY COLLINS
The Funk Capitol of the World
www.bootsycollins.com
Dist: Sony Music Canada
Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer and legendary bassist Bootsy Collins, known worldwide for pioneering funk music with James Brown and Parliament Funkadelic, releases his first new album in four years, ‘Tha Funk Capitol of the World,’ . Collins collaborated with fellow P-Funkers George Clinton and Bernie Warrell on the record, along with an all-star lineup of musicians and cultural luminaries including rappers Snoop Dogg, Chuck D, and Ice Cube; actor Samuel L. Jackson; banjo phenom Bela Fleck; the Rev. Al Sharpton; scholar Dr. Cornell West; and guitarists Buckethead and Catfish Collins - Bootsy’s late brother.
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