Random music news for Saturday, July 26, 2025
Here’s a job for AI: Growing mushrooms. Leave me to compile music news for July 26, 2025. BONUS: For the last time, there’s nothing really magical about 10,000 steps a day. Instead, walk
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Recommended reading: New MASSIVE book on Max Webster
I first saw Max Webster open for Rush on the Farewell to Kings tour back in 1978. I’ve been a fan ever since. Plus I was also lucky enough to work with Kim
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Kim Mitchell to be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
Kim Mitchell has been responsible for some brilliant and often iconic Canadian songs, starting in the 70s with Max Webster and through a long solo career. Those achievements are now being acknowledged by
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Here are your winners for CMW’s 20th annual Jim Beam INDIE Awards
A bit late–sorry–but here’s who won what this year. INDIES Hall of FameKim Mitchell ALBUM OF THE YEARJuly Talk – Pray for It ARTIST OF THE YEARGrimes – Miss Anthropocene COUNTRY ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF
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How about a hard rock version of Kim Mitchell’s “Patio Lanterns?”
This song has been a summer staple since its release in the middle 80s. Here’s a hard(ish) rock update of the song from Canadian band Midnight Desires. (Via FYIMusicNews.ca)
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The Next Important Canadian Box Set Will Focus on Max Webster
There was a time in the late 70s when Max Webster was Toronto’s house band. Eventually signing to Anthem Records and adopted as Rush’s little brother band, Kim Mitchell and the group eventually
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Prepping for Canada 150: 50 Legendary Canadian Songs
My brother and sisters throughout Corus Radio were asked to compile a list of 50 legendary Canadian songs and then pass comment on them. Here’s the final result. For the full list and
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Random Music News for Thursday, January 14, 2016
On this day in 1973, Elvis Presley’s live broadcast from a Hawaii set a record for the most-watched show ever with up to 1.5 billion viewers. Kim Mitchell suffered a heart attack Tuesday
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Here’s a Chance to Help Musicians in Need
A couple of years ago, a new non-profit charity was launched with the aim of helping Canadian musicians who have fallen on hard times because of health and financial issues. The Unison Benevolent
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A Concert Doesn’t Get Much More Canadian Than This
Watch what happened in Hamilton on Thursday (Feb 26) night.
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