Tuesday Music Guide - February 15, 2011 |
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| Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:23 |
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 THE DEARSDegeneration Street www.thedears.org Dist: Fontana North  Degeneration Street, the fifth album from The Dears, delivers the passion and soul that has earned the band the adoration of fans and critics worldwide. From the electrifying nihilist pop anthem “Thrones,” to the star-scraping heights of “Galactic Tides;” from the grimy opener “Omega Dog,” to the Motown sci-fi of “Lamentation,” Degeneration Street is, definitively, The Dears. STEEL MAGNOLIASSteel Magnolias www.steelmagnoliamusic.com Dist: Universal Music Canada After winning CMT’s Can You Duet? competition, Meghan Linsey and Joshua Scott Jones, the duo that comprise Steel Magnolia, have been on a continuous climb to the top. Their breakout hit Keep On Lovin’ You has earned over a million digital downloads and was featured on the soundtrack for the romantic comedy Valentines Day. Now, Country music’s hottest newcomers, the Nashville based duo release their self-titled, debut. Steel Magnolia showcase their blues and soul-infused Country Rock as well as a sassy attitude on album tracks, including the Keith Urban-penned Homespun Love, and the bickering, break-up ballad, Edge of Goodbye, the first song that Linsey and Jones ever wrote together. VOTE FOR THE TOP 40 OF 40!  As part of the JUNO Awards’ 40th Anniversary celebration, CARAS is inviting Canadian music fans to vote on their favourite Canadian songs. This list is drawn from the shortlisted ‘Single Of The Year’ nominees over the forty year history of the JUNO Awards. Fans can visit the JUNO Awards’ Facebook page to have their say and help play a part in selecting the Top 40 Canadian Songs over the history of the Awards.Join music lovers across Canada in honouring the great Canadian music of the past forty years and help determine the country’s favourites. Are you interested? Please click here and VOTE!!  CHIXDIGGITSafeways Here We Come (EP) http://www.myspace.com/chixdiggit Dist: F.A.B. Sweeter than maple syrup and at times more mysterious than Ogopogo, Canada's finest pop-punk export, CHIXDIGGIT!, are back with their latest masterpiece, 'Safeways Here We Come'. With nearly six years having passed since their last release, the anticipation for new material is at a crescendo and 'Safeways' is exactly what fans have been pining for. Every track on 'Safeways Here We Come' is quintessential CHIXDIGGIT!. Each of the 7 songs bristles with the trademark uptempo, straight forward, guitar driven, pop punk sound that CHIX have become famous for. MOGWAIHardcore Will Never Die, But You Will www.mogwai.co.uk Dist: Outside Not everyone gets Mogwai, but that's what makes them great. Theirs is a majestic, powerful sound where barely a word is spoken yet it is the antithesis of background music. Album and song titles bemuse, confuse and delight in equal measure and live, they are utterly unstoppable. For their seventh album Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will they have continued in this vein with a brave and instinctive album that is charged with an energy, spirit and intensity few can match. It is the sound of a band comfortable in their own skin, but clawing at the edges of their own capabilities, and drawing out something particularly special in the process. Hardcore... is a natural progression from 2008's mighty The Hawk Is Howling, but draws on a more varied sonic palette than its predecessor. It also throws into sharp relief how Mogwai the live beast and Mogwai the studio beast are two different, if complementary animals.  EAST RIVER PIPEWe Live In Rented Rooms www.eastriverpipe.net Dist: F.A.B. East River Pipe’s seventh album, We Live in Rented Rooms, continues Cornog’s journey into America’s darklands. F.M. Cornog is an odd one. He is an anomaly in this well-fed world of information - a diamond so deep in the dirt he’s likely to be glimpsed only by a keen-eyed few. Under his pen name, East River Pipe, he has recorded six extraordinary albums. These biting, ruminative micro-masterpieces have won Cornog much critical praise, but never fame and fortune. He has painted his America as a neon-lit wasteland filled with deluded losers, cheats, junkies, ultra-capitalist businessmen, freeway-roaming dreamers, and the tragically fated.  SONIC YOUTHSimon Werner A Disparu www.sonicyouth.com Dist: F.A.B. In Spring 2010, SONIC YOUTH gathered at their Echo Canyon West studio in Hoboken, New Jersey, to watch the rushes of a new film, 'Simon Werner a Disparu', by French director Fabrice Gobert. They spent the following few weeks recording music which was then shaped as needed to fit the various scenes. For this release, rather than present the small clips of music as used in the film, the band went back in the autumn to the original tapes and reorganized the various pieces for this original soundtrack release, sometimes montaging multiple tracks together, other times extending cues into new sonic realms.  TELEKINESIS12 Desperate Straight Lines Dist: F.A.B. When Michael Benjamin Lerner set out to record songs for the follow-up to his debut album Telekinesis!, he found himself with no band, a case of vertigo, and a wrecked van. The long-distance relationship that inspired his debut album had ended, and he had just returned from a much-needed escape to Berlin where he banished himself to a room in the warehouse district to write songs from 9 to 5 each day. Michael was inspired (by the heavy, fuzzy bass in Flin Flon’s a-OK) to buy a bass guitar and, in a sudden burst of inspiration, wrote four more songs for the album. Michael and Chris Walla continued their partnership from Telekinesis! and again recorded to tape at Portland’s Jackpot! Studios. The result of all of this is 12 Desperate Straight Lines, twelve new songs of heartache, anger, and even a little hopefulness.  PJ HARVEYLet England Shake http://pjharvey.net Dist: Universal Music Canada Musically, PJ Harvey dislikes repeating herself, resulting in albums that can sound different from one to the next. She has experimented with such diverse musical styles as Rock, Pop, Electronica, and Folk, and is also known for changing her appearance from album to album by altering her mode of dress or hairstyle - Each look is then incorporated into the album's artwork, music videos, and live performances. PJ Harvey’s new album was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset, on a cliff-top overlooking the sea. It was created with a cast of musicians including such long-standing allies as Flood, John Parish, and Mick Harvey. It is the eighth PJ Harvey album, following 2007’s acclaimed White Chalk, and the Harvey/Parish collaboration A Woman A Man Walked By.  REV THEORYJustice http://www.revtheory.com Dist: Universal Music Canada REV THEORY (formerly known as Revelation Theory) is an American hard rock band based out of New York. Formed in 2002, they released their debut album, Truth Is Currency, in 2005. Their new album was produced by TERRY DATE (SOUNDGARDEN, PANTERA, DEFTONES, INCUBUS, LIMP BIZKIT, KORN, SMASHING PUMPKINS, SLIPKNOT, STAIND).  RICHARD MARX & MATT SCANNELDuo & Duo Live www.richardmarx.com Dist: Universal Music Canada DUO is the collaboration between friends and songwriters Richard Marx and Matt Scannel. Richard is one of the most highly regarded and successful talents of his generation having written, recorded and sold numerous multi-platinum and Grammy award winning albums. Matt Scannel has also seen success as part of the platinum selling group Vertical Horizon. Together they bring their talents and wit to a unique live show.  DuoThe premier studio collaboration between friends and fellow songwriters is now available to fans from coast to coast. Originally released in 2008 this ten track collection contains new and familiar tracks from both artists’ collective songbooks. Duo Live This particular performance was recorded in October of 2009 and sees the DUO in fine form playing new songs and one another’s hits.  ROCKABYE BABY!Weezer: Lullaby Renditions Of rockabyebabymusic.com Dist: Universal Music Canada Rockabye Baby transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. Guitars and drums are traded for soothing mellotrons, vibraphones and bells, and the volume is turned down from an eleven to a two. Rockabye Baby is the perfect way to share the music you love with the littlest rocker in your life. Dreamin' of a holiday across the sea to escape baby's cries? Why bother? Take control of the good life. When your little troublemaker gets cranky, let our gentle renditions of Weezer's biggest hits transform your nursery into an island in the sun. The perfect situation isn't only in dreams.  ZED HEADMortal Man www.zedhead.ca Dist: Universal Music Canada Canadian-bred Zed Head are musically firmly in the guitar trio style, with lots of cars, Harleys and women. This is kick ass classic Blues Riff Rock; the kind of Texas Boogie Woogie you’d expect from the reverend Billy F. Gibbons and his compadres. With his long beard and dark shades, vocalist and bass player Fog Johnny Burkitt even looks the part. Neil Chapman spits out the riffs while Smilin' Bob Adams wails on his Mississippi saxophone. Drummers come and go, but involved but one is Tony Nolasco of McKenna Mendelson Mainline fame. Bill King guests on keyboards. TEDDY THOMPSONBella www.teddythompson.com Dist: Universal Music Canada Bella follows 2008’s A Piece of What You Need, which The Guardian declared “one of this year’s best,” and debuted at #9 in the UK charts. Bella is Thompson’s fifth set in a career that has consistently garnered critical praise. NPR proclaims that he’s “the musical equivalent of an arrow to the heart,” while The New York Times calls his work “beautifully finessed.” Recorded in New York City and produced by David Kahne (The Strokes, Regina Spektor, Paul McCartney), Bella features some of Thompson’s boldest material to date, combining lean rock and roll with lush string arrangements through the album.  STRYPERThe Covering www.stryper.com Dist: Sony Music Canada Stryper, the world’s most celebrated multi-platinum Christian metal band, is back with an evocative take on classic rock songs. After 25 years, The Covering marks Stryper s journey throughout rock history by paying homage to their favorite rock songs with the brilliant style that only Stryper could accomplish. Stryper’s ‘The Covering’ album features their distinct brand of Christian rock with a twist that never goes out of style. The extraordinary vocals from front man Michael Sweet are not only unsurpassed, but aid in the energy and vibrant flow of the melodically dueling guitars and hard-hitting drums. ‘The Covering’ features songs that have inspired the sound and band, Stryper, as the four original members united to record this cover album.  HAYES CARLLKMAGYOYO (& Other American Stories) www.hayescarll.com Dist: Universal Music Canada Hayes Carll hasn’t been resting on his laurels since topping critics polls and winning awards for his 2008 album, Trouble in Mind. Instead, he’s been on the road nearly nonstop with his band, "The Poor Choices" blasting through honky tonks and rock clubs across the U.S. and beyond. Along the way, he’s been inspired to write a crop of new tunes that the acclaimed songwriter says are “a layman’s take on our country – a snapshot of America in some small way.” The result: the sharply drawn collection KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories), his second release from Lost Highway. KMAG YOYO is pronounced “kay-mag, yo-yo.” A military acronym that stands for “Kiss My Ass Guys, You’re on Your Own,” the title track is one of a dozen songs that brings to life such rich characters as its protagonist, a young Army foot soldier in Afghanistan who becomes a Pentagon guinea pig.
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