58!!! How is that snot-nosed kid 58? :-) -------- Original message --------From: Michael Coxe Date: 4/20/17 2:32 PM (GMT-08:00) To: audities@smoe.org Subject: Moe Berg story - performing again with other Canadian popsters The resurrection of smart-aleck 'power pop' http://www.therecord.com/whatson-story/7249019-the-resurrection-of-smart-aleck-power-pop-/ Excerpt: ------- He pauses on the phone. "I just couldn't face it." And so Berg bought into his own song and found comfort as a behind-the-scenes producer, writer and part-time professor. Until last summer, when a like-minded posse of smart aleck rabble-rousers from indie pop's glory days — Sloan's Chris Murphy, The Odd's Craig Northey, former Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page — made him an offer he couldn't refuse. "There's a 'power pop' element in everyone's music that flows from the Beatles, Badfinger, the Raspberries and the Knack," he notes of their musical connection. "All these bands have a real pop sensibility."