LUCA FOGALE (CANCELLED)

Luca’s songwriting keeps drilling down into the deepest corners of his soul, as he reckons with crises both spiritual and existential in search of inner peace and redempetion. But  “Something I've really struggled with my entire life is feeling worthy and purposeful and that my life has value,” Luca admits. “A lot of these songs are meditations and reminders to myself of how I want to live my life: the ways in which I want to think about myself and think about the people in my life, and how I want to be seen. I'm still learning about what sort of music I want to make and what kind of artist I want to be. Obviously, it's a lifelong process.” 

Luca Fogale

Doors 6:30 Show 6:45 PM
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MRG Live Presents: LUCA FOGALE (CANCELLED)

Anyway Gang

Doors 8:00PM Show 9:00PM 
Artist Presale: MARCH 15 @ 10 AM PST MRG Presale: MARCH 16 @ 10 AM PST On Sale: MARCH 17 @ 10 AM PST 
A few summers ago, some friends from four of Canada’s most notable bands – Dave Monks (Tokyo Police Club), Sam Roberts (Sam Roberts Band), Menno Versteeg (Hollerado), and Chris Murphy (Sloan) – got together to write some songs. They mostly made dad jokes but also jammed on a bunch of songs they all had lying around. After bitter and lengthy negotiations, a 3 chord rule was implemented. This made sense for Sam and Dave's songs, but required Chris to drop between four to six chords from his and forced Menno to add two.
 
They recorded a bunch of stuff in a few days and over the year added some ideas here and there and all of a sudden they realized they kinda had an album so they said let’s name ourselves the first thing they thought of and release it. Anyway, they ended up being called Anyway Gang. Their first single, &quot;Big Night&quot;, went to #1 at Alternative Radio. They decided to celebrate by playing exactly 1 show, at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. The show sold out in a matter of minutes, so they decided to quit while they were ahead and not do any more shows.
 
Well it's now 2022, and the band is back with a full length record called &quot;Still Anyways&quot;. This time they even added a 4th chord to some of the songs, and worked in a real studio with producers Gus Van Go (Metric, Arkells, etc.) and Nixon Boyd (Hollerado, Dizzy,). To celebrate they will be doing a Canadian tour in May, and because they now have more than 8 songs to choose from, they won't have to play Big Night twice like they did at the first show. (They might anyway, but they don't have to)
 
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The Franklin Electric

Doors 8:00PM Show 9:00PM
 
Blind faith guides us right where we need to be. While making The Franklin Electric’s third full-length offering titled This Time I See It [NETTWERK], founder and frontman Jon Matte allowed such instinctual belief to act as his north star. On a whim during the creation of the album, he ventured into the wilderness of Squamish, British Columbia—an hour or so from Vancouver. He hung out on the Squamish River as Coho salmon, “the size of your leg,” swam upstream. While the sun set, he watched a family of black bears from across the river as tears of joy filled his eyes. By the end of the record’s creation, he had indefinitely moved to Mexico. In between these adventures, the album had assumed form.
 
As such, it reflects a period of healing and self-forgiveness set to an alternative folk soundtrack accented by analog warmth and modern energy.
 
 “I was saying, ‘Yes’, to whatever the universe threw at me, and the songs came out better than I thought,” he says. “I was on this transformative trip and self-discovery or something like that.. I let go of ideas and preconceived notions. I just watched the album take shape. That’s where I’m at now.”
 
He made it here one step at a time. In 2014, The Franklin Electric came to life on their debut, This Is How I Let You Down. Performing on multiple continents, shared stages with Mumford &amp; Sons, Ben Howard, Half Moon Run, and City and Colour, to name a few. On the heels of 2017’s Blue Ceilings, the band's nomination for Breakthrough Group of the Year at the 2018 JUNO Awards. After the In Your Head EP [2019] and In Your Heart EP [2020], he holed up at Afterlife Studios in Vancouver with co-producer John Raham [Frazey Ford, Joshua Hyslop, Jon Bryant] to record what would become the new album. Jon played everything but drums, which Raham handled.
 
Locking into a distinct vibe during 12-hour sessions six days per week, they “set up stations around the room in order to jump from piano to guitar to vocals to synths.” To be COVID-safe, they donned masks half the day and shed them to perform. Following their time together, Jon added “a few trinkets to the songs” out of his home studio in Montreal.
 
Shortly after, an invitation from a friend brought him to the “spiritual town” of San Pancho in Mexico, while Miro Mackie put the finishing touches on the record in L.A.
 
“Everything happened in synchronicity,” he goes on. “All of this gave me an incredible amount of inspiration.”
 
He capitalized on that inspiration in every song. Gently picked acoustic guitar courses just underneath his understated delivery on the opener “After All,” which he calls “a traveling tune that could be inspired by a road trip or by a spirit moving freely through life without the limits of the mind.” His vocals ring out as strings wrap around soft strumming on “Always Alone.” He adds, “It’s about learning to make peace with your authentic self and make decisions from a place that often feels lonely. When you finally develop a relationship with yourself, there’s beauty.”
 
On the single “Greatest Love Of All,” a high register harmony echoes over a simmering beat and neon synth transmissions, evolving from a folk tune into a cinematic soundscape.
 
“That one discusses how certain patterns repeat in relationships, which always goes back to my relationship with myself,” he states. “We look to our partners and careers for love. However, the ‘Greatest Love Of All’ leads right back to us.”
 
The dreamy and upbeat “Ten Steps Back” captures the Sisyphean sentiment of “the more you try to get ahead, the more behind you end up.” Finger-picked electric guitar and piano drive “Understand” where he “speaks about letting go of the games we like to play in order to make sense of life.”
 
Meanwhile, “Why You Gotta Be” offers a personal reminder to himself as he asks, “Why you gotta be so hard on yourself?”
 
In the end, The Franklin Electric provides the perfect accompaniment for your journey wherever it takes you.
 
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MRG Live Presents: The Franklin Electric

Diamond Cafe

Doors 8:00PM Show 9:00PM
 Diamond Cafe is a local Victoria synth-pop &amp; r&amp;b artist that has amassed a devoted following since their debut, self-titled album in 2017.
 
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MRG Live Presents: Diamond Cafe

Satanic Surfers & No Fun At All

27 Years Of Their Classic Albums SATANIC SURFERS Performing Hero Of Our Time NO FUN AT ALL Performing Out Of Bounds 
Doors: 8:00PM Show: 9:00PM
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Swedish punks the Satanic Surfers formed in the autumn of 1989 around singer Erik and drummer Rodrigo; guitarist Frederick and Magnus soon joined the line-up, as did bassist Tomek, although the band's debut effort Skate to Hell did not appear until 1993. Singer Ulf replaced Erik for the follow-up, 1994's Keep Out, and with Ulf's subsequent departure Rodrigo agreed to assume vocal duties for Hero of Our Time, issued the next year. 666 Motor Inn followed in 1997, and upon completing 1999's Going Nowhere Fast Tomek left the Satanic Surfers, to be replaced by bassist Matthias. In mid-2000, the band issued Songs from the Crypt and Fragments and Fractions. The group added drummer Martin Svensson for touring purposes and jumped back into the studio in early 2002. The results, Unconsciously Confined, came out in the spring of the same year.
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The Swedish hardcore band No Fun at All formed in the small town of Skinnskatteberg during the summer of 1991; led by songwriter/guitarist Mikael Danielsson, the original lineup also included singer/drummer Jimmie Ohlsson and bassist Henrik Sunvisson. After completing the group's 1993 debut, Vision, Ohlsson exited to focus his full energies on his other band, Sober; with new frontman Ingemar Jansson, lead guitarist Krister Johansson, and drummer Kjell Ramstedt, No Fun at All returned in 1994 with No Straight Angles, followed a year later by Out of Bounds. In the wake of 1997's The Big Knockover, Sunvisson quit the group, with Danielsson assuming bass duties; new second guitarist Stefan Neuman was installed in time for 1999's Live in Tokyo. State of Flow followed in 2000, but it proved to be the band's final studio album. In 2003, NFAA's Swedish label, Burning Heart, united with American punk stalwart Epitaph to release Master Celebrations, a fan-picked 24-track retrospective spanning the band's career.
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Frazey Ford

Doors 7:00 Show 8:00 PM
 
As one-third of the Vancouver alt-folk trio the Be Good Tanyas, dulcet-voiced singer/songwriter Frazey Ford enjoyed widespread critical acclaim and cult band status during the 2000s, later launching a solo career with 2010's Obadiah. On her own, Ford's music stretched into soul and R&amp;B territories on 2014's horn-laden Indian Ocean, a vibe that continued in subtler measures on 2020's U Kin B the Sun.
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Holy F*ck

Doors 8:00 Show 9:00 PM
 
Canadian quartet Holy Fuck have always been happy to plow a distinctly lone furrow. Never ones to chase the limelight or hop on any genre-wagon that happens to be passing by, they’ve played by their own rules for the past part of 15 years and five albums.
 
It’s for that reason that they’ve become one of the country’s finest, and most influential, exports, with their widescreen, technicolour, crescendo-heavy and highly danceable sound often finding itself imitated, but never bettered.
 
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MRG Live Presents: HOLY F*CK

The Pineapple Thief  Featuring Gavin Harrison

Doors 7:00 Show 8:00
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British prog rock band the Pineapple Thief, led by founder and frontman Bruce Soord, have become one of the most restless rock outfits of the 21st century and, while spending years as a cult attraction, nonetheless possess a large following in Europe, Asia, and the United States. While the group's music is often likened to Radiohead's and Porcupine Tree's, the generalization falls far short in describing a constantly evolving sound that deftly balances sophisticated indie pop, theatrical rock, 21st century prog, textured electro-acoustic ambiences, and neo-psychedelia.
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MRG Live Presents: The Pineapple Thief  Featuring Gavin Harrison

Elliott Brood

Doors 8:00PM Show 9:00PM
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From the mountains of Utah to the trenches of Vimy Ridge, Elliott BROOD&rsquo;s songs have travelled the gore and glory of history in equal measure for nearly a decade. With the stomp and thrash of their early albums, Elliott BROOD carved their niche drawing from history and memory. As heavy and harrowing the past can be, for Elliott BROOD, it is also a generous companion, giving the gift of appreciation for times of peace and grace.
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With Keeper, Elliott BROOD&rsquo;s seventh album, the trio deals with the past in more personal terms. The title, which speaks to loyalty and longevity, sets the tone for an album that explores the strength of conviction, and how that strength is tested, again and again, over time. Thoughts of worthiness and dedication, and their emotional flip sides, inform a collection that sees the band exploring those battlefields much closer to home.
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From the Polaris Music Prize short listed breakout album Mountain Meadows to the JUNO Award winning Days Into Years, the well-traveled trio of Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet and Stephen Pitkin have created a body of work that is at once meticulous and boisterous, substantial and entertaining.
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MRG Live Presents: ELLIOTT BROOD

Shad

Doors 8:00 Show 9:00 PM
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Shad is one of Canada&rsquo;s&nbsp;most&nbsp;revered&nbsp;rappers, a peerless wordsmith who embodies hip-hop&rsquo;s power to entertain and educate. Since releasing his DIY debut in 2005, the Toronto-based MC has pushed his style of socially conscious yet infectiously playful hip-hop across five increasingly ambitious albums that have received widespread critical acclaim and coverage in outlets like Rolling Stone, Complex, The Ringer, Fader, NPR, and more. To date, Shad has racked up over 30 million streams, a Juno Award for&nbsp;Rap&nbsp;Recording of the Year (for 2010&rsquo;s TSOL), and four placements on Canada&rsquo;s prestigious Polaris Music Prize shortlist,&nbsp;most&nbsp;recently for his 2018 concept-album opus, A Short Story About a War. His mission to inspire and inform goes beyond his own music: a former host of CBC Radio&rsquo;s flagship arts and culture program q, Shad can currently be seen talking shop with the legends of&nbsp;rap&nbsp;on the Emmy/Peabody Award-winning Netflix Original docuseries, Hip-Hop Evolution. His&nbsp;most&nbsp;recent album, TAO, was released in October 2021 on Secret City Records.
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MRG Live Presents: SHAD

Ocean Alley - North America 2022

Doors 8:00PM Show 9:00PM 
Artist Presale: MARCH 1 @ 10AM PST Spotifty Presale: MARCH 2 @ 10 AM PST MRG Presale: MARCH 3 @ 10AM PST On Sale: MARCH 4 @ 10AM PST
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Infused with their classic sun-drenched sound and infectious groove, 'Touch Back Down' is a story about turning a negative into a positive, and always finding the light side of a problem. It was written during a last-minute writing session in Byron Bay, which only came to be after Bluesfest was cancelled at the eleventh hour in April this year.
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Boppy from its opening bars, the track features an intoxicating sing-along melody that paired with swirling guitars and shimmering keys, create a warmth and brightness that feels like summer. It builds to an emphatic chorus where frontman Baden Donegal's soaring vocals shine, and are punctuated by stunning harmonized backing vocals.
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On the new single, Baden shared &quot;It's exciting to have new music out. The more records we write, the more we can explore our sound and style, which is why they are ever-changing. 'Touch Back Down' gives a much happier vibe than any single from Lonely Diamond and we're definitely carrying that upbeat energy across our writing at the moment. It provides a pretty good insight into the feel we're going for in terms of our next record.&quot;
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Guitarist Mitch Galbraith added, &quot;It feels more playful than Lonely Diamond and we wanted it to be that way. After the craziness of the past two years, we wanted to be less serious and write songs that will get people moving rather than thinking. We felt that we could write music this time around that is less introspective and with a little more storytelling, so this is the first taste of the new direction that our fourth album will offer.&quot;
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From Northern Beaches dive bars to sold out international tours, Ocean Alley's evolution has been driven by an endless pursuit to push their sound and abilities to new limits. Operating as a proudly independent band, their output has always been underscored by a refreshingly chilled authenticity and relatability that has seen them achieve more than 450 million catalogue streams.
 Since the release of their Gold-certified breakthrough Chiaroscuro (2018) which saw the band take the #1 spot in triple j's Hottest 100 of 2018 for their double platinum smash 'Confidence,' the six-piece have performed major festivals including Reading &amp; Leeds (UK), Splendour In The Grass (AUS) and Sziget (HU), debuted at #3 on the ARIA charts for their critically acclaimed 2020 album Lonely Diamond, have received Gold certification on five singles and been nominated for 2 ARIA.
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MRG Live Presents: Ocean Alley - North America 2022

Born Ruffians – Juice, Squeeze & Pulp Tour

with special guests Sham Family
Doors 8:00 Show 9:00 PM
 
Acclaimed Toronto- based <a href="https://www.bornruffians.ca/">Born Ruffians</a> are pleased to announce their 2022 JUICE, SQUEEZE &amp; PULP tour beginning April 27, 2022, in Rochester, New York; the 33-city tour in support of the band’s recent trilogy series will culminate June 25 in Winnipeg. 
 
A complete list of dates is below, and tickets are now on sale <a href="http://www.bornruffians.ca">here</a>.
 
“For thirteen years, we were on tour,” says the band’s bassist Mitch DeRosier, “our entire adult lives were spent on the road. When such a big part of you disappears, all it means is that you’re going to cherish it when it comes back - we’re grateful, anxious, and excited to have tour life return this spring and to see you all again on the road.” 
 
For the JUICE, SQUEEZE &amp; PULP tour, the band—Luke Lalonde (guitar/vocals), Mitch DeRosier (bass), and Steve Hamelin (drums)—will introduce a new fourth member, Maddy Wilde, to the lineup. 
 
Following the recording of Uncle, Duke &amp; The Chief in 2018, the band still had a batch of songs that they wanted to record, so they entered the studio without knowing what would become of them. Those prolific recording sessions churned out more and more music, resulting in a multi-album release plan: JUICE (2020), SQUEEZE (2020), and PULP (2021).
 
Formed in rural Ontario, Born Ruffians arrived on the Toronto scene in 2004 and released a self-titled EP in 2006 on XL/Warp Records. The latter released the band’s debut full-length album, Red, Yellow &amp; Blue and Say It (2010). Birthmarks (2013) and RUFF (2015) followed on Yep Roc Records and has received critical praise from NPR, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Noisey, Magnet, Under The Radar, and more.
 
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MRG Live Presents: BORN RUFFIANS – JUICE, SQUEEZE & PULP TOUR

JPEGMAFIA

Doors 7:00PM Show 8:00PM 
Presale: April 21 @ 12 PM PST&nbsp; On Sale: April 22 @ 12 PM PST&nbsp;
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JPEGMAFIA is often praised for his ability to create music that seamlessly joins an array of emotions, sounds, and subject matter in a way that many haven&rsquo;t heard up to this point. Though his approach might be new to some listeners, the LA-based rapper and producer&rsquo;s journey through life, in many ways, predestined him for this kind of musical versatility. In his early years, Peggy was raised in Brooklyn, New York by Jamaican parents. Then, as a preteen, he moved to rural Alabama, a place where he&rsquo;d have to face a type of racism that was unrelenting in comparison to his experiences on the East Coast. Those early, contentious encounters led a young JPEG to gravitate towards early Ice Cube records, which spoke directly to what he was dealing with at the time. Cube&rsquo;s clever, intellectual, and militant approach led Peggy to making his own music in his early high school years, joining the LA rapper&rsquo;s style with the flamboyance of artists like Cam&rsquo;Ron back home in NYC.
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After graduating high school, JPEG enlisted in the military, deploying to various corners of the world where he&rsquo;d pick up a little bit of influence from each locale. None would prove to be more crucial than his move to Baltimore in 2014. A few months after he arrived, the city erupted in a fiery uprising in response to the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray at the hands of Baltimore City Police. The city&rsquo;s passion and absence of fear when standing up to local law enforcement had a profound effect on Peggy, who&rsquo;d only witnessed scenes like those while on active duty outside of The States. It led him to crafting two projects that helped him catch the eyes of people across the country and the internet. 2015&rsquo;s&nbsp;Darkskin Manson, eerie in sound and content, was his first project as JPEGMAFIA and a direct response to what he saw happening on Baltimore streets between citizens and police. Songs like &ldquo;Mask on the Masters&rdquo; and &ldquo;Cops are the Target&rdquo; featured haunting vocals that channeled his anger and mind-twisting production that only bolstered those sentiments. That project&rsquo;s follow up, 2016&rsquo;s&nbsp;Black Ben Carson, featured even wackier production and satire, poking fun at people like Ben Carson and Stacey Dash, who, at the time, were making questionable political statements that felt detrimental to black progress.
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Though he relocated to Los Angeles in late 2017 to further his music pursuits, Baltimore City is still the foundation and main source of inspiration for Peggy&rsquo;s artistry. In a 2018 documentary by The FADER based around his relationship to the city, he said, &ldquo;The music out of this scene, I felt it the most out of anything. It&rsquo;s something deeper -- it&rsquo;s harsher, it&rsquo;s more painful, it&rsquo;s more soulful. It&rsquo;s still something different about it to me.&rdquo;
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It was in Los Angeles that JPEG released his breakthrough album,&nbsp;Veteran, at the top of 2018. In comparison to his first two projects, which were conceptual pieces,&nbsp;Veteran&nbsp;essentially served as Peggy&rsquo;s autobiographical introduction to the world and his most versatile display of his skillset up to that point. The album established JPEGMAFIA as one of the more exciting artists that rap has to offer, due to his ability to make political commentary and the concerns of American millennials engaging, humorous, and informative all at once. The album changed his life. In the year following&nbsp;Veteran, he became a mainstay in American media, the festival circuit, and soon would begin receiving praise and admiration from musical titans such as Rick Rubin and James Blake, among others.
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Now, after one of the more impressive introductory runs for a new artist in recent memory, JPEG is mastering his ability to strip the music down to a point of being more transparent, all while maintaining what made people fall in love with him in the first place. That&rsquo;s where his new album,&nbsp;All My Heroes Are Cornballs, comes in. The 18-track project follows in the footsteps of his earlier work, in that, as a listener, you step into uncharted territory whenever you press play on any of Peggy&rsquo;s songs. The beautiful remnants of jazz piano in the first half of album cut &ldquo;Keenan vs. Kel&rdquo; serenade you to a relaxed state before pounding drums and bass come into play. He appropriately ends that song with an ominous declaration -- &ldquo;You think you know me&rdquo; -- which is a fitting way to frame the rest of the album.
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&ldquo;When I went into this I had a completely blank head. I didn&rsquo;t want to think about anything,&rdquo; JPEG says of&nbsp;All My Heroes Are Cornballs. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t wanna go into it with no preconceived anything. I just knew I wanted to make something in a space and time. When you just leaving it all out there, it kinda happens that way.&rdquo; That creative approach may explain why the album has more naturally personal moments than last year&rsquo;s&nbsp;Veteran,&nbsp;but even with that addition, in true Peggy fashion, it mostly shows up in spurts. &ldquo;Prone!&rdquo; spends the majority of its duration being a platform for JPEG to let off steam and frustration, but by its end, he slyly fits in interpolations of Jamaican singer Wayne Wonder&rsquo;s hit &ldquo;No Letting Go.&rdquo; Directly after, 61-second cut &ldquo;Life&rsquo;s Hard, Here&rsquo;s a Song About Sorrel&rdquo; is a short love letter to a drink popular in Caribbean households. Both instances are a subtle nod to his heritage. Moments like these are sprinkled all throughout&nbsp;All My Heroes Are Cornballs&nbsp;and they suggests that, while JPEGMAFIA will remain the cerebral off-kilter jack of all trades (take the title track that goes from referencing Drake melodies to name dropping both Anne Hathaway and Ann Coulter), he&rsquo;s entering a space where it feels necessary to bare more of himself to those who&rsquo;ve gotten him to this point.
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That way of thinking, he says, comes after finally breaking into an industry he&rsquo;s been targeting for the better half of his life, only to realize that so many of the people he idolized are disappointingly disingenuous.&nbsp;All My Heroes Are Cornballs&nbsp;is, in some part, him grappling with that lightbulb moment, but more importantly, him making sure he doesn&rsquo;t replicate their deficiencies. &ldquo;When you put the scope of today -- when we know more about people&rsquo;s intentions -- and you put it back on some of these people, you realize that they&rsquo;re not really who you thought they were in any way, shape, or form,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;This album is my real-life realization.&rdquo;
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