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CD: Jon and Roy, Another Noon Release date: 2008 Label: Warner Music Canada Rastaman-Zen Guidance from a Young Old Soul Music thank you so much, You’re like a god to me I flourish in your touch feel the blood rush, The flow of a rhyme made in a new design, find a safer way to… Read more »

This Beautiful Mess Patrice Boulianne, a.k.a. Blou, fronts a band of the same name in Meteghan, Nova Scotia. Blou has forged a new style of Acadian music dubbed Acadico, a blend of Cajun, Acadian, and zydeco, and has won numerous awards at home and internationally. Originally from St. Boniface, Manitoba, Boulianne moved to Moncton, New… Read more »

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CD: Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life Release date: 2008 Label: Matador Records Demon Spawn Acid Punk Call-to-Arms Rousing the Fainthearted to Radical Consciousness Ignite the crust Inseminate the dust The cultured quartz that rises high The stone refined that lives and shines Be the vessel, be the knife stone and metal Come to… Read more »

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CD: Rory Block, Blues Walkin’ Like a Man Release date: 2008 Label: Stony Plain Records A Place in the Blues Pantheon for Little White Girls from New Jersey ?Blues Walkin’ Like a Man transcends gender. The blues got so bad that they manifested into human form and began walking down the road beside you …. Read more »

Jeanne (Doucet) Currie is an Acadian recording artist living in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. From July to September 2008 her third CD, Serrons-nous la Main, was one of the top 10 songs on Franco Country, Radio-Canada, Galaxie. She was one of the artists featured in ?Members News? in the SOCAN French magazine Paroles et Musique… Read more »

This column originally appeared February 8, 2008, in issue 1606. CD: Sam Baker, Pretty World Release date: 2007 Label: BlueLimeStone Publishing Produced by Walt Wilkins and Tim Lorsch of Bull Creek Productions In Pretty World Sam Baker presents us with a grittily beatific vision of the saints and sinners of Texas, which turns out to… Read more »

Please wait a moment for the comic to load if you have a slow connection This column originally appeared November 7, 2008, in issue 1643.