Hot on the heels of his induction in to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame alongside his ex-bandmates in Barenaked Ladies, singer-songwriter Steven Page has announced the forthcoming release of the most forceful musical statement of his solo music career. Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II will be released on Friday, September 14, 2018 via Fresh Baked Goods / Warner Music Canada. Fans can pre-order/pre-save the album HERE.
Ahead of the album’s release, Steven has today launched the vitriolic first single, “White Noise,” a naked look at the current political discourse south of the 49th parallel. Watch the video now below!
“I grew up in a household where social justice was a fundamental value, and I always believed that it was a fundamental Canadian value as well as a central Jewish one,” says Page. “I’ve watched how the term has been twisted and perverted by the Right over the last several years in an effort to diminish the voices of reason.”
“Although I grew up politically aware in a left-leaning household (which, in Canada, was not regarded as anything sinister until the mid-90s and beyond), it wasn’t until I discovered the politically-charged music coming from the UK in the 1970s (the Clash, The Jam) and 1980s during the Miner’s Strike and the Red Wedge movement (Billy Bragg, Style Council, Communards, etc) that I became excited by the power of music and activism. This song pays tribute to that music and was written in the wake of last year’s events in Charlottesville. The open displays of racism and antisemitism, and the chants of “Jews Will Not Replace Us” made me grab my guitar and tell them I’d be more than glad to replace them.”
Recorded at Fresh Baked Woods Studios just outside of Toronto and Vancouver’s Doghouse of Thunder Studio with longtime live bands Odds and The Original Six and frequent collaborator Craig Northey, Discipline is Page’s fifth solo album and the spiritual follow-up to 2016’s Heal Thyself Pt. I: Instinct. Musically, the album tips its hat to many of Page’s influences including the aforementioned punk rock movement and David Byrne as well as a nod to the Bee Gees and the Zombies.
Prior to the release of Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II, Steven Page embarks on consecutive tours of the U.K. (August 6 – 18) and the U.S. (September 20 – October 21; November 15 – 30). Canadian tour dates will be announced this Fall. U.S. tour dates below (for the full list of tour dates, visit www.stevenpage.com).
TOUR DATES
Sep 20 Washington, DC City Winery
Sep 21 Richmond, VA Tin Pan
Sep 22 Annapolis, MD Rams Head On Stage
Sep 24 Philadelphia, PA World Café Live
Sep 25 New York, NY Highline Ballroom
Sep 27 Bay Shore, NY Boulton Center
Sep 29 Pawling, NY Daryl’s House
Sep 30 Old Saybrook, CT Katharine Hepburn Arts Cntr
Oct 02 Portland, ME Port City Music Hall
Oct 03 Boston, MA City Winery
Oct 05 Fall River, MA Narrows Center
Oct 06 Albany, NY Swyer Theater @ The Egg
Oct 07 Ithaca, NY Hangar Theatre
Oct 11 Cleveland, OH Music Box
Oct 12 Newark, OH Thirty One West
Oct 14 Newport, KY Southgate House
Oct 17 St Louis, MO Delmar Hall
Oct 18 Chicago, IL City Winery
Oct 19 Milwaukee, WI Shank Hall
Oct 21 Minneapolis, MN Dakota
Nov 15 Seattle, WA Triple Door
Nov 16 Portland, OR Mission Theatre
Nov 19 Sacramento Harlow’s
Nov 20 Santa Cruz, CA Kuumbwa Center
Nov 21 Berkeley, CA Freight & Salvage
Nov 24 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
Nov 25 San Diego, CA Belly Up
Nov 26 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom
Nov 27 Tucson, AZ 191 Toole
Nov 29 Denver, CO Soiled Dove
Nov 30 Salt Lake City, UT State Room