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Foo Fighters Wrapping up Joe Walsh week on the Omnivore with Outside by Foo Fighters from their eighth studio album, Sonic Highways.

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Jay Ferguson Classic yacht rock featuring the mighty Joe Walsh on guitar. His tone and slide technique are so identifiably him.

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Eagles The story behind this song is as follows... Don Henley recalled that "the song actually sprang from the opening guitar riff.

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James Gang OK...so this isn't actually James Gang. I couldn't find a decent video of them doing…

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Joe Walsh Joe was Marc's guest on last Thursday's WTF podcast. He's such a unique guy and one of the greatest guitar players ever.

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Metric This is the first single from Metric's new (and as yet unnamed) album scheduled for release this fall. Canada has so many fantastic bands and musicians making great music these days.

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Qraig It's a reggae kind of day.

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Sly and the Family Stone The older I get, the more I appreciate funk. The rhythm is seductive. The melodies and instrumental flourishes are so tasty.

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The Glorious Sons

I’ve been in a full OCD frenzy with this song since Saturday. I’m well over a hundred spins so far. It has a fantastic sing-along chorus.

These guys are from Kingston, Ontario. Not sure what’s going on there. I can’t figure out how a city of 130,000 people can spawn both the Tragically Hip and The Glorious Sons. The odds would seem to be against that kind of track record.

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Milk & Bone Pointe du chapeau to friend of the Omnivore, Vicki, for the heads up on this track.

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The Dead Exs Rockabilly from the soundtrack of Father of the Year.

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IAMWARFACE Omnivore favourites IAMWARFACE released a new single and video last week, and it does not disappoint. Moody and atmospheric, …

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Faster Pussycat Last post of Sleazerock week. Something brand new for you tomorrow on New Music Friday.

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The Four Horsemen Continuing with the sleaze-rock theme.

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Salty Dog Remember The Man They Call Reveen? His son, Pete Reveen, plays guitar in this band. Continuing with my sleaze-rock theme week...

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The Lazys

From their latest album, Tropical Hazards.

Nothing here you haven’t seen a thousand times dating back to the 80’s, and it’s GLORIOUS! I adore this kind of music. I love Leon Harrison’s voice. I love black jeans and t-shirts. I love the guitar tones. I love arena anthems.

I love all these things so much that I think I’m going to do a theme this week; loud, greasy guitar rock. Queueing up Salty…

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The Amorettes Yet another kickass band from Scotland. This is from their new album Born to Break, available now.