STEVEN PAGE Announces “Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II” With Provocative New Video

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STEVEN PAGE
Announces the Release of
DISCIPLINE: HEAL THYSELF, PT. II
Release Date: September 14, 2018
U.S. Tour This Fall

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 49^th parallel. (see “White Noise” lyrics below). Listen to “White Noise” HERE.

“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.”

BILLBOARD premiered the “White Noise” video which you can watch HERE

Steven Page “White Noise”
Link: https://youtu.be/VyyLNmSfVKw

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).

“White Noise” lyrics

Shit’s about to get nice

Shit’s about to get real fucking nice

Right now

Don’t it make you swell with pride

To learn there’s bigotry on many sides?

White Noise

Oh yeah

White Noise

Oh yeah

Apparently, to fix your nation

You’ve got to run it like a corporation

The kind you don’t mind burning to the ground.

I’ve had to learn to bite my tongue

Or they’ll send me back where I came from

I’ll tell you, as an immigrant and a Jew,

I’d be more than glad to replace you

Throw away the bill of rights

For anyone who isn’t white

White Noise

Right now

White Noise

Right now

Let’s have a second civil war

That’s what the 2nd amendment’s for!

White Noise

Oh yeah

White Noise

Oh yeah

Said the Snowflake to the Nationalist:

I won’t cease ’till you desist

You raise your flag, I’ll raise my fist

Resist! resist! resist! resist!

I’ve had to learn to bite my tongue

Or they’ll send me back where I came from

I’ll tell you, as an immigrant and a Jew,

I’d be more than glad to replace you.

White Noise

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