The doors are open, which will Mangan choose?

Dan Mangan is the subject of a documentary titled, What Happens Next? Good question. It’s like all the doors are open and he just has to choose one. Screening is Wednesday at CBC’s Studio 700.

With three hit singles on it, Shut Up And Dance could be a big album for Abbotsford’s Victoria Duffield. LP is out Tuesday. She headlines the West Jet stage at the PNE on Monday and opens for Big Time Rush, Sept 16.

After three years, Faber Drive has a new LP, Lost In Paradise. It’ll be out Aug. 28, but you can hear the first single, Candy Store, on YouTube.

Bryan Adams welcomes the arrival of his first book of photography next month. His sideline as a photographer has been growing for years. Exposed, the book’s title, comes with a foreword by Sir Elton John. Subjects include Morrissey, Amy Wine-house and Michael Jackson.

Having played jazz in Mother Of Pearl and sung opera, Lauri Lyster turns her attention to the theatre. Lyster is The Drummer Girl, which opens Sept. 20 at the Firehall Arts Centre. Madchild’s Dopesick album is released Aug. 28. A tour with Tech N9ne will bring him to the Commodore. Devin Townsend caps promotion of his 15th solo LP, Epicloud, with a date at the Commodore, Sept. 18.

Japandroids are at the Rickshaw, Dec. 22. Its album, Celebration Rock, has been getting tremendous reviews. The duo is on tour in Europe as this is being written.

Fine Times releases its first album on Light Organ, Sept. 18. Produced by Howard Redekopp, whose resume includes Tegan and Sara.

Jonathan Chan is playing next week for a 1696 Stradivarius cello valued at $7.5 million. The Langley musician is competing with 30 others to have the right to “own” the instrument for three years. The cello is one of the prizes of the Canadian Council Musical Instrumental bank, which loans its valuable instruments to promising players.

Sean Byrne, known to those who followed Celtic music as Mr. Irish Music, has died at 85 years old. Byrne was a kind of liaison between the traditional and more modern but not the wild stuff.

Delhi 2 Dublin’s Turn Up The Ste-reo is available, Aug. 28.

The next concert at North Van’s Shipbuilder Square presents Neil Osborne (54-40), Jesse Ferrel, Dave Genn (54-40), Wil, Headwater, Wetherman, Babe Gurr, Carli and Julie Kennedy, Aug. 25.

GARAGE CD OF THE WEEK

The name might say Steve Taylor’s Drum Boogie, but Taylor’s album, Hot Nuts, is not dominated by drums. Rather, Taylor does what he’s always done in the roots community, which is to provide sympathetic but strong rhythm. If there is one difference it’s that he has challenged himself by playing a variety of percussion pieces. Not too flashy but a good test as not every drummer can play a boogie and then switch to a country waltz. The music is a merger of jump blues and breezy country hitting a middle ground evocative of Texas Swing … or Asleep At The Wheel’s version of it.

CDS RECEIVED THIS WEEK

These came in the mail to The Garage: Steve Taylor’s Drum Boogie: Hot Nuts; Omnisight: Path; Christa Couture: The Living Record; Jim Byrnes: I Hear The Wind In The Wires; Delhi 2 Dublin: Turn Up The Stereo.

GIGS

Steve Gidora and Neil Harnett, both with recent CDs, are collaborating (Beecher St. Cafe, Wednesday), Kickaxe reunites (Venue, Thursday), Five Star Motel (Shipbuilder’s square, Friday), Black Mountain, Ladyhawk (Waldorf, Saturday), Steve Dawson, Dave “Boxcar” Gates (New West’s Concert On The Quay, Sunday), Head-water, Heidi Morgan (Firehall Arts Centre, Sunday) David Ward sings his ambitious new recording The Arrival (Shark Club, Aug. 31), Some X Six launch a new CD, The Hoodoo Shake (Cottage Bistro, Aug. 31).

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