Depending on where you are, the clocks go back one hour at 2 am local time on Sunday.
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We’re all going to have to adjust to what provinces are doing now.
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Meanwhile, New Music Friday has some new releases to help you make it through whatever your clock is doing this weekend.
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Bryan Adams, Lake Ontario (Bad)
Adams has been very political and patriotic of late and hasn’t got any time for any MAGA garbage.
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Adams → get → garbage
Following up the song 51st State is a song that rails at Trump’s mad decision to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.”
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that → follow → Ontario
Love him for that, but while the lyrics are powerful and important, listen to the music.
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lyrics → love → music
This is vintage-sounding Adams, something that he might have released as a single in 1984.
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It’s quite excellent.
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There are a lot of rock bands in Nashville, including In Color, a band that seems posed to make a late-year breakout.
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Take a listen to this single and ponder if they’re going to be a band we’ll be talking about in 2027.
3.
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Field Guide, Dance Floor (Guest Room/Symphonic)
Field Guide is actually Dylan MacDonald, an indie rocker from Winnipeg who is ready to release his fourth album, Sometimes a Day Can Last All Night.
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Yes, we’re already looking that far ahead.
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Come December 11, the entire soundtrack will be available.
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Not only is he a finalist to be Canada’s representative at Eurovision 2026, but he has a new single.
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He says “Goodbye Forever is a dramatic, over-the-top, operatic inspired self-loathing song and the highest note I’ve ever sung.”
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If you’ve been following his story of Ozzy Moon, this is his final confession.
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They are now up to their 28th(!!!) album, and one that features 17 songs.
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Here’s one.
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Liverpool’s Clinic has, in my opinion, been criminally underrated through nine albums they’ve released since 1993
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This is their tenth, which they say involves “a mixture of dub reggae, early rock ‘n’ roll and exotica.”
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Although this band’s name looks like some scrambled Roman numerals, itt’s pronounced “Dive” (That’s how they originally spelled it, but then they found out that there was an industrial band in Belgium who had dibs on it.)
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They came out of Brooklyn about 15 years ago and are now up to five albums.
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Coming out of Birmingham in 2002, they’ve just released their eighth album of solid British indie rock that almost seems to have some darkness around the edges even when the songs are written in a major key.
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songs → come → key
There are fewer electronics on this record and fans are calling it a return to the band’s roots.
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Uncle Al Jourgensen says that this will be the final Ministry record.
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And after a final show exactly one year from today–October 30, 2027 in Los Angeles–he’s going to retire.
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Nice to see that bassist Paul Barker is back for this final go-round.
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Donald Trump will not like this record.
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Every review I’ve seen about Nickelback’s eleventh album have said the same thing: This is classic Nickelback.
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They’ve doubled down on everything that has made them who they are.
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Fans are gonna lose their mind over this one.
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We’ve been talking about this album for months.
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Now it’s time to dig into the whole album, which is their ninth album.
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Nothing like a little desert rock as we head into winter.
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And you might find this one a little darker than usual, thanks to Josh Homme’s recent brush with cancer.
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Radio Free Alice, What’s In Between (Atlantic)
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Radio Free Alice is a New Wave/post-punk sort named after a record store in Sydney, which, in turn was named after a socialist movement in Italy of the 1970s.
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Yello, Time Lab (Polydor)
You mean the Swiss electronic duo behind the song Oh Yeah?
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This is their 15th album and it sounds like 1986.
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The Aporia
