Articles By Jason Schneider
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The Return of Slow, Canada's Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band Published Apr 30, 2018Summer, 1986. A bored kid turns on MuchMusic in hopes of seeing something interesting. The best he can hope for lately is R.E.M. or one of t...
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Exclaim!'s 2013 in Lists: 5 Signs of the Nashville Renaissance Published Dec 30, 2013Nashville will forever be the centre of the country music universe, but in recent years, it's become known for much more than the Grand Ole...
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Craig Cardiff Man of the People Published Dec 13, 2013Independent, Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Craig Cardiff has spent the past 15 years building a grassroots following in Canada that recentl...
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Cowboy Junkies Honouring An Icon Published Dec 09, 2013Michael Timmins seems to be attracted to big projects lately. After wrapping up his band Cowboy Junkies' ambitious four-disc collection The...
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Swamp Dogg The Original Dogg-Father Published Dec 04, 2013Although Jerry Williams Jr. cut his first R&B record at age 12, it wasn't until he created his alter ego, Swamp Dogg, in 1970 that he found...
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Craig Cardiff Explains 'Love Is Louder (Than All This Noise)' Published Nov 22, 2013With a catalogue now well into double digits and a national fan base that is surely the envy of his singer-songwriter peers, Ottawa's Craig...
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Cowboy Junkies' Michael Timmins Talks the Lengthy Process Behind 'The Kennedy Suite' Published Nov 20, 2013In 1997, Toronto roots rockers the Skydiggers recorded "The Truth About Us," written by fledgling songwriter Scott Garbe, who based it on th...
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Bottle Rockets Bottle Rockets & The Brooklyn Side [Reissue] Published Nov 19, 2013It's been 20 years since alt-country's golden age, and Wilco fans born around that time might be hard pressed to imagine their heroes back t...
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Fiftymen Fiftymen Published Nov 19, 2013Although Fiftymen have been hometown heroes in the Ottawa area for ages, on their self-titled fourth album the band finally seems ready to t...
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White Ash Falls Over the Night Published Nov 19, 2013On his second album as White Ash Falls, Andy Bishop makes great strides as a cosmic cowboy, delivering ten tracks of pure left coast bliss....
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Craig Cardiff Love Is Louder (Than All This Noise) Parts 1 & 2 Published Nov 18, 2013Craig Cardiff's 15-plus year career has been a textbook study in how to do everything right in building a grassroots audience. Working compl...
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Dennis Ellsworth Hazy Sunshine Published Nov 12, 2013This follow-up to Ellsworth's 2012 David Barbe-produced effort, Dusk Dreams, finds the PEI-born singer-songwriter venturing into more clearl...
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Cowboy Junkies / Various The Kennedy Suite Published Nov 08, 2013November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and of all the events marking it, none is as unexp...
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Howe Gelb The Coincidentalist Published Nov 01, 2013Given the frequency of his releases, it's easy to look at Howe Gelb's catalogue as a work-in-progress, with each album offering merely a gli...
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Left Lane Cruiser Rock Them Back To Hell! Published Oct 29, 2013While it's true that the two-piece blues-rock formula is close to played out, that hasn't stopped Indiana duo Left Lane Cruiser from continu...
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David Myles In The Nighttime Published Oct 29, 2013David Myles's songs have always reflected a perfect world, one in which high school crushes blossom into lifetimes of happiness, where just...
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The Devil Makes Three I'm A Stranger Here Published Oct 29, 2013Following a string of indie releases since 2002, the Devil Makes Three have taken a large step forward on I'm A Stranger Here, enlisting pro...
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Dave Van Ronk Down In Washington Square Published Oct 29, 2013As interest in the new Coen Brothers film, Inside Llewyn Davis, builds, it's no surprise that music by its main inspiration — Dave Van...
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Lindi Ortega Honky Tonk Heroine Published Oct 22, 2013"My mom calls me a gypsy child because she says I'm always just going from city to city," Lindi Ortega admits while explaining the origin of...
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Anna Calvi Waiting to Exhale Published Oct 18, 2013Anna Calvi's self-titled debut was among the finalists for the 2011 Mercury Prize, an honour that confirmed what her early supporter Brian E...