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Matt Berry’s Guide To Middle-Age Charm and Radio Popularity

Matt Berry’s Guide To Middle-Age Charm and Radio Popularity

"How can I get my song on the radio?" As music director of Calgary alternative rock station X92.9, this has to be the question I get asked the most.
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Cold Specks to retire her name and reclaim her own after

Goodbye and Hello: After a lengthy hiatus, Canadian singer-songwriter Cold Specks to retire her name and reclaim her own after Block Heater appearance

What’s in a name? Roses, posies and stuff aside, it really is, for the most part, meaningless. Unless it actually means something. To you.
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Cheater Sheet For Block Heater: Picks to help you make your way through the Calgary Folk Music Festival’s 2023 winter wonderland

The Calgary Folk Music Festival presents their eighth annual Block Heater Festival, which, like its namesake, keeps your engine purring through the long, cold vagaries of late winter.
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Just released: Ritmo in your music marathon

Just Backdated: Alejandro Escovedo looking forward to keeping the pace in his musical marathon

It’s daytime on New Year’s Eve, and songwriter/guitarist Alejandro Escovedo and his wife Nancy Rankin are at Milton Riemer’s Ranch Park in the hill country of Dripping Springs, outside of Austin, Texas, ready to go for a hike after Escovedo finishes his interview.
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The big must-sees: A taste of the winter music festival

BIG Must-Sees: A sampler of some of the acts to catch at this year’s winter music and arts festival

After a series of pandemic-related false starts resulting in a cancelled 2021 festival, and a revised format, multi-weekend festival in April 2022, Calgary’s BIG Winter Classic is back in a big way for 2023, with a stacked roster and guaranteed stellar performances in the doldrum-defeating January music festival format we once knew and loved. 
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2022 On The Record: David Veitch's best albums of the year, including Fantastic Negrito, Father John Misty and Spoon - The Science

2022 On The Record: David Veitch’s best albums of the year, including Fantastic Negrito, Father John Misty and Spoon

The end of 2022 is rapidly approaching and as I think back to the year in new music: I am puzzled how, once again, the year’s most commercially successful music was mediocre at best and gawd-awful at worst.
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Sounds of Calgary: Best local albums we heard in 2022

Sounds of Calgary: Best local albums we heard in 2022

charming Summer Serenades of 2021. Sled Island, Wordfest, and others rolled along without a hitch.
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Have Yourself A Saucy Little XXXmas: Naughty But Nice a spicy holiday treat - The Science

Have Yourself A Saucy Little XXXmas: Naughty But Nice a spicy holiday treat

Playwrights/composers: Matt Board, Dan Perrott, Grant Tilly, Jeff Thomson, Jordan Mann and G.F. Handel with Joe Slabe. Music composed and/or arranged by Joe Slabe and Konrad Pluta.
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Acclaimed rock author Jason Schneider gets to the dark heart of Canadian

Suicide Diary: Acclaimed rock author Jason Schneider gets to the dark heart of Canadian punk legend Art Bergmann with new bio

When Ontario author Jason Schneider contacted legendary punk rocker Art Bergmann to write Bergmann’s biography, he wasn’t sure how it would go due to the many stories about the artist’s wild ways and crusty demeanour. 
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Bathroom reading: Documentary of the NYC indie-rock scene.

Bathroom Reading: Documentary of NYC’s indie-rock scene will send you back to the literary source

Meet Me In the Bathroom, the documentarized version of Lizzy Goodman’s 2017 oral archive of the late '90s/early aughts trajectory of New York rock ‘n’ roll revivalists like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Interpol, and LCD Soundsystem, though impressive for the sheer scale of its “you had to be there” found footage, might be better served as a visual companion to the book.
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