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You’re Invited: Sultans of String Online Record Launch

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Refuge is the stunning new release from Billboard-charting, multi-JUNO nominees Sultans of String – a diverse collection of songs celebrating the struggles and successes of refugees and immigrants. The album boasts an impressive guest list of collaborators and weaves masterfully through a myriad of different sounds and styles.

Join Sultans of String’s violinist and producer Chris McKhool and Canadian Musician Editor-in-Chief Andrew King for the Refuge Online Album Launch, going live from Canadian Musician‘s Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/cdnmusician) on Tuesday, May 12th, 2020 at 2 pm ET (11 am PT).

You’ll hear songs from the album with video from the recording sessions, get the inside story on the album and how they landed their high-profile guests, and a lot more!

Join the stream at www.facebook.com/cdnmusician

Dave Grohl Tells The Story Of Jamming With Prince, Talks Growing Up To His Records

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There probably isn’t a musician on Earth who hasn’t dreamed of jamming with the one-and-only musical force of nature known as Prince. For Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, this dream came true during Prince’s now-famous 21-night residency at The Forum in Los Angeles in 2011.

50 songs from 1980 in 3 minutes

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The Hood Internet samples of more than 50 songs from 1980 mixed together into one 3-minute song.

Rollin’ thru New Zealand with Kenny Rogers and The First Edition

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As the opening of this 1974 documentary demonstrates, many people in the United States have never heard of New Zealand. In an attempt to remedy the situation, Kiwi director Tony Williams (the Bugger ads) followed Texan country rocker Kenny Rogers and his band The First Edition as they toured the country in a Road Services bus. All western shirts, shaggy hair, beards and satin jackets, they see the sights, meet the locals (many of them older rustic characters), play baseball, put down a hangi, break into song — and admire the country’s slower, more dignified pace.



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Sammy Hagar & the Circle Performs The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again”

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Sammy Hagar & the Circle performs a heavy and spirited cover of The Who’s rock classic “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”

Guelph, ON Teen Alt Pop / EDM Prodigy Mikalyn Lands Global Remix for Single “Close”

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Canadian dark-pop/alt prodigy Mikalyn Hay — and co-write partner EDM and pop artist Xtro (Chris Graham) — has dusted off an earlier fave for a fresh remix with a global vibe in “Close” — available now!

Discovered by International label and management outpost Reven, “Close feat. Mikalyn & Xtro” was reimagined by Brazilian bass/future/tech house artist RQntz (Requintes) and Russian EDM duo 39 Kingdom for the Spring 2020 release.

The original video from Mikalyn and Xtro’s initial imagining remains available via YouTube here.

“‘Close’ was a very fun song to write,” Mikalyn recalls of the track’s creative process some two+ years ago. Hay and Graham — who were 16 at the time — collaborated for a six-track EP, Love Again where the original version of “Close” was featured. “Chris and I have written many songs and this one started out the same way all of them do: alternating between our makeshift home basement studios, mine in Guelph and his in Toronto.

“For ‘Close,’ we had been freestyling around the line ‘close to me’ and, once we had the song fully written, I knew it was my favourite,” she continues. “It’s been so cool seeing where the song started, and comparing it to what it’s become. It’s crazy.”

RQntz and 39 Kingdom’s take on “Close feat. Mikalyn & Xtro” is available now.

Steven Curtis Chapman, Brad Paisley, Lauren Alaina and Tasha Cobbs Leonard Release ‘Together (We’ll Get Through This)’

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In these trying, confusing times, music is a healer — of the mind, the spirit and sensibilities, and that’s exactly why five-time GRAMMY winner Steven Curtis Chapman enlisted his friends Brad Paisley, Lauren Alaina and Tasha Cobbs Leonard to release Together (We’ll Get Through This).

Iron Maiden Announce Remastered Live Collection

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Parlophone Records will continue their reissues series of the IRON MAIDEN catalogue with a fifth set of Digipak CD titles in The Live Collection – Remastered, to be released on June 19th. The albums included in this release are the seminal live recordings Live After Death and Rock In Rio.

Live After Death was recorded at Long Beach Arena, California in March 1985 on the band’s legendary year-long World Slavery Tour which started in Poland in August 1984. It comprised 187 shows around the globe and turned Iron Maiden into one of the biggest bands on the planet. The album, which also features additional tracks recorded at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, is widely regarded as one of the greatest live albums of all time.

Rock In Rio was recorded on 19th January 2001, on the final night of Iron Maiden’s Brave New World Tour. The performance was in front of 100,000 fans and was subsequently broadcast globally on TV.

The Live Collection – Remastered follows on from the recent releases of The Studio Collection – Remastered, a four-part series of releases covering their entire sixteen-strong studio album back catalogue. The albums feature the audio taken from the 2015 Mastered for iTunes project and the new collections are the first time these versions are available on CD.

As a bonus for collectors, one CD from each batch of releases is optionally available in a specially artwork designed box featuring a 1:24 scale figurine and exclusive patch. In this fifth batch, this will be Live After Death.

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