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Featured New Tracks

more to come

Featured New Tracks

By FYI Staff

more to come


J. Mann is a folk-accented Toronto singer/songwriter who recently released Ten Animals, his first solo album in a decade. It was recorded in Toronto, Barcelona and Buenos Aires, and it features extensive contributions from Grammy award-winning engineer, producer and musician Inaam Haq. The first single is “Help Us Get It Right." 

Peter Drucker is an emerging indie pop singer/songwriter from Montreal. He has just released a new track, "Telescope" (below), and is now working on a second EP, “Good. Morning." 

Trope is a Vancouver based Alt meets prog rock band that has recorded a debut album, Eleutheromania. It was engineered by Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Metallica) and mixed by David Bottrill (Tool, Peter Gabriel) mixing. Here's a video for the debut single, "Lambs." 

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Katie McBride is a Toronto based synth-pop artist and producer. Her new single, 'N.B.S.L.', has just been released by UK label Limited Health and will appear on an EP coming out on July 27th. Assisting in the recording and mixing are Matty of Babadnotgood and Joe Manzoli of Ginla.

Eclecticus is a five-piece rock band from Toronto, Canada, fronted by singer-songwriters Gar Reid and Tiina LeMay. A new album, So Illogical, was produced, mixed, and mastered by Jono Grant. 

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Barry Haugen
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Barry Haugen

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Obituaries: Canadian Country Music Hall of Famer Barry Haugen, Steve Cropper of Booker T & the M.G.’s

This week we also acknowledge the passing of Toronto organist and choir director Dr. Giles Bryant, famed session guitarist Phil Upchurch and Skyhooks guitarist Bob Starkie.

Barry Haugen, a pioneer of the Canadian country music industry, died on Dec.1, at age 84, of cancer.

His work as a record label executive and a dedicated booster of Canadian country artists earned him induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

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