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“There’s big crime in DC at the White House,” Young sings in the chorus, as a comment on Trump’s previous legal difficulties, as well as a sarcastic reference to Trump’s current crackdown on crime in Washington DC.

“Don’t need no fascist rules / don’t want no fascist schools / don’t want soldiers walking on the streets,” Young sings. “Got to get the fascists out / got to clean the White House out … no more money to the fascists, the billionaire fascists”.

Riffing on Trump’s “make America great again” slogan, Young adds: “No more great again.”

Young, who became a dual US-Canadian citizen in 2020 and called Trump “a disgrace to my country” that year, expressed worry earlier in 2025 that his criticism of Trump would mean he would not be allowed back into the US. “When I go to play music in Europe, if I talk about Donald J Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminium blanket,” he wrote on his website.

Written by CBC Music on the 28th of August, 2025. Below is not the full article.

Neil Young has shared a new song, Big Crime, which takes aim at the Trump administration.

"On the fiery track, Young sings, 'Got to get the fascists out, got to clean the White House out,' and 'There's big crime in D.C. at the White House.'"

"Young has previously spoken out against the president. In 2015, he filed a lawsuit against Trump for using the song Rockin' in the Free World during his campaign, and in 2020, he endorsed Bernie Sanders for president and said Trump was 'a disgrace to my country.'"

"Young has released many politically-charged songs throughout his career and was also openly critical about the Richard Nixon administration. His 1970 song, Ohio, is famously about the Kent State University shootings that took place in May of that year, when the Ohio National Guard was called in to quell an anti-Vietnam War protest that resulted in the death of four students. 'Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming,' he sings."

Michel Pagliaro est un musicien, né et élevé à Montréal en 1948. En 1962, il commence sa carrière musicale à l'âge de 13 ans ! Dès 1966, il a débuté son premier album avec DSP International. Bien que franco-canadien, il écrit ses chansons en français et en anglais. Pagliaro a été le premier artiste canadien à atteindre le Top 40 anglophones et francophones au Canada. Il compose et se produit encore aujourd'hui.

«J'entends frapper» a compose en 1972 et a connu un grand succès au Québec. C'est sa chanson la plus populaire, avec 4 276 000 écoutes sur Spotify. En 2010, la chanson a été intronisée au Panthéon des Auteurs et Compositeurs canadiens.

Aujourd'hui, c'est le Vendredi français ! (29 août)

Pour aujourd`hui, postez de la musique franco-canadiennes. Le Français dans les posts n'est pas requis, mais la toune doit être en français ou contenir du français.

La photo, c'est Michel Pagliaro, le musicien de la semaine.

Out of Calgary, AB!

Created in 1985 by Scottish-Canadian Lawrence Gowan. Gowan was born in Scotland, but immigrated to Scarborough Ontario when he was younger. Gowan's career is mostly entirely contained within Canada, with most popular being in Toronto, the epicenter of his career.

This song is one of my favourites of Gowan's, next to (You're a) Strange Animal. The song, from my understanding, is about self respect and finding one's own place in the world by ignoring those who seek to put you down or control you.

I could perhaps be self-projecting those meanings on to the lyrics, but it is what it means to me. I've had to cut people off and I've made moves and decisions that those who love me dearly told me would be mistakes. One such move was moving back home to Canada from the US. The song, to me, speaks to the freedom of taking their reigns of your own life and choosing the shape in which you exist in the world.

Gordon Lightfoot is often considered the most influential and successful folk singer in Canadian history -- for good reason. His songs are said to be woven into the fabric of Canadian identity. Classics such as The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Sundown, and If You Could Read My Mind still regularly being played on the radio, and still touching the hearts and minds of Canadians.

Gordon Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario, in 1938 and passed away in Toronto in 2023. Gordon has been awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario in recognition of his contributions to the nation in a civilian capacity.

If You Could Read My Mind was written in the context of his crumbling marriage with his first wife, in part due to Gordon Lightfoot's own infidelity - a fault he acknowledged himself in life.

Anyone who listens to this song will resonate with it differently. For me, it is a song about confronting one's own failures in personal relationships and finding the comforting humanity in the flaws and mistakes.

Metric was formed in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. Help I'm Alive was released in 2008 as a lead single of the Fantasies album. This song currently has 103 million listens on spotify, making it the second most popular song of Metric on the platform (excluding the most popular Black Sheep Brie Larson version, from the Scott Pilgrim movie).

Well this was a nice find - some hard rock out of Igloolik, NU! From Wikipedia:

Northern Haze is a Canadian rock music group from Igloolik, Nunavut, whose self-titled 1985 debut album is believed to have been the first-ever indigenous-language rock album recorded in North America.

Formed in 1984 by Kolitalik Inukshuk, Naisana Qamaniq, James Ungalaq, Elijah Kunnuk and John Inooya, musicians from Igloolik who had collaborated in various bands since the 1970s, the band released the self-titled album in 1985 through the CBC Northern Service.The band played various festival dates, including at Folk on the Rocks and Expo 86, to support the album. They continued for many years afterward to play concert dates in Canadian Arctic communities, but could not afford to record a followup album due to the extremely high cost of doing so in remote Arctic communities; they did, however, record some individual singles.

In 2007, the band broke up after the deaths of Kunnuk and Inukshuk. In 2012, the independent label Supreme Echo Records released Sinaaktuq, a compilation of the original album and the non-album singles.

Idk genres, man.

Here's some chill, synth-driven trippy stuff out of Ottawa, ON.

Hamilton ON's own boy and the best thing to ever happen for Hawkins' marketing team, BA Johnston everybody.

Interspersed among the comedy and live show favourites are classics like this. Think a lot of folks can recall a time in their lives where this song resonates hard.

Aujourd'hui, c'est le Vendredi français ! (22 août)

Pour aujourd`hui, postez de la musique franco-canadiennes. Le Français dans les posts n'est pas requis, mais la toune doit être en français ou contenir du français.

La photo, c'est Les Trois Accords, le groupe de la semaine.

Un autre pour le theme du vendredi

[Anglophone mode engaged: I can't understand a word, but this fucking SLAPS.]

Parce que c'est vendredi 😎

Some heavy stuff out of Edmonton, AB!

Linking the whole EP because a) it's pretty short, a 2 minute prologue and 3 songs about 3 minutes each and b) Prologue and I Do Declare are worth hearing back to back.

A blurb from SaskMusic.org:

Gil & Wil is a femme-driven country duo based out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, made up of members Holly Gilroy (she/her) & Aiden McRorie Wilson (she/her). The influence from prairie roots is heavily audible throughout the variety of western, bluegrass, folk, and old-time tunes each setlist holds. Bringing spice-filled original songs to the stage alongside well-placed classics, the two seamlessly blend their voices to create “harmonies so tight and in-tune that it puts the rest of the world to shame."

I have a soft spot for certain kinds of country and country-adjacent music, and this album caught my attention looking when trawling through North Sask Music Zine for more groups out of Saskatchewan. I really like this! Will definitely be watching their career with interest :)

Sup folks? Been a while :)

Here's a fun track! If you dig it and live in these places, The Count Ferrera is doing a show in Ottawa at House of Targ next Wednesday (Aug 27th), and another in Sherbrooke, QC at Le Murdoch on September 12th. Take in some live Montreal Vampire Psych Rock ;)

Aujourd'hui, c'est le second Vendredi français ! (15 août)

Pour aujourd`hui, postez de la musique franco-canadiennes. Le Français dans les posts n'est pas requis, mais la toune doit être en français ou contenir du français.

La photo, c'est Harmonium, le musicien de la semaine. Pas de publication du musicien de la semaine aujourd'hui. Je suis vraiment fatigué du travail. J'ai débordé cette semaine.

En honneur du quinzou aujourd'hui! (La fête nationale des acadien•nes)

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In honour of National Acadian Day today!

VIREZ-FOU 💙⭐🤍❤️

Félix Leclerc (1914 - 1988) était un chansonnier québécois emblématique. Auteur-compositeur, poète, écrivain, acteur et militant politique, il a marqué l'histoire culturelle du Québec. Il a été décoré de l'Ordre du Canada et de l'Ordre national du Québec. Il contribue à faire reconnaître le Québec comme une nation francophone doté d'une culture distincte.

Né à La Tuque, Leclerc était un des onze enfants de sa famille. La Grande Dépression a interrompu ses études universitaires, et il a alors travaillé comme animateur de radio à la fin des années 1930. En 1939, il est devenu rédacteur à Radio-Canada. C'est alors qu'il commença à écrire ses premières chansons.

Dans les années 1960, Leclerc était un fervent nationaliste québécois. Ses chansons de cette époque expriment ce sentiment. Particuliérement « *Qui est le père? » et « Les 100 000 Façons de tuer un homme ».

Le p'tit bonheur est la chanson la plus populaire de Leclerc et un bel exemple de « chanson poétique » québécoise.