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Fans of Canada’s Our Lady Peace—and there have been many in our region, going back to the mid-’90s, when the group broke big with the “Naveed” album and followed that record with its biggest success to date in the form of “Clumsy”—have got to be chomping at the bit. After releasing its last album, “Healthy in Paranoid Times,” the band has been on hiatus, as singer Raine Maida concentrated on his solo career, and the rest of OLP engaged in a variety of projects. As a result of this flurry of outside activity, it has been five years between new releases, for the first time in OLP history. That “Healthy” was a bit lackluster and over-produced suggested to some of the band’s fans that, perhaps, the creative well was running dry. So when OLP releases its new album, “Burn, Burn,” on July 21, it’s make-or-break time. Happily, the album’s first single, “All You Did Was Save My Life,” is already turning heads up north, and around the world, via YouTube. There is indeed a renewed vigor in the band’s approach, and Maida sounds more inspired than he has in several years on the “Naveed”-like “arena-alternative” tune. Our Lady Peace will certainly be premiering a healthy portion of “Burn, Burn” when it arrives in Western New York this evening at 5:30 p. m., as part of the Canal Concert Series at Lockport’s Ulrich City Centre. Opening the show will be Inland Eyes and the Incurables. Admission is free. —Jeff Miers
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