Art Bergmann

Airdrie, Alberta

"You might think leading a quiet country life in rural Alberta for the better part of a decade would have mellowed Art Bergmann a little bit, but quite the opposite has happened. Being idle on a farm in Airdrie with nothing much to do but read voraciously, watch cable news and wander the fields pondering where the world went wrong has only left the famously irascible CanCon-underground icon more outraged and defiant than ever on his vicious new EP, Songs for the Underclass. Released in early September on sturdy Toronto indie label Weewerk, it’s the 61-year-old Bergmann’s first new recording since the late 1990s. A combination of disgust with his ongoing treatment at the hands of a music industry that’s never really had a clue what to do with him, and debilitating arthritis in his spine and hands compelled him to chuck it all at the time, but he’s been gigging on and off for the past year or so and is now threatening a full-length album at some point in the near future — not to mention some potential reissues of early punk material dating back to his days with Vancouver’s Young Canadians. Yes, please." - Ben Rayner, Toronto Star (October 22, 2014) Art Bergmann is recording a new album, The Apostate, due out in early 2016. Hold on to your fucking hats!

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