“It’s really hard to say what kind of music we play,” says Nick Laugher, guitarist and singer of Ocean Charter of Values, “It weaves in and out of, like, singer-songwriter-y stuff, psych rock, melodramatic whiney pop, some drone and ambient stuff and also weird heavy stuff where I wish I was cool enough to play […]
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Triple treat
From Thursday to Saturday, Live Art Dance is bringing together several forms of art for very special performances. One set will be performed by the Montreal-based Canadian-Swedish dance duo Tentacle Tribe, choreographed to reflect contemporary dance and modern hip-hop. The opening set will be a unique collaboration between Halifax MC Ghettosocks, Toronto rapper NiLLa and […]
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A Couple Photos from the Crafter’s Society Winter Show
The Halifax Crafters Society held their winter show this weekend, Friday to Sunday, at the Olympic Hall. The community sale featured jams by CKDU 88.1 FM, baked treats, sausage rolls and lemonade (Lemon Dogs), leather goods (Old Birch Workshop), prints and visual arts, glass wears and ceramics, beautiful jewelry, locally spun yarn and knitted materials, […]
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Local doc Myrtle Beach headed to Slamdance Film Fest
In January, locally produced documentary Myrtle Beach premieres at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, an independent complement to the Sundance Film Festival that same week. Produced, directed and shot by Atlantic photographers Michael Fuller and Neil Rough, the film follows a few Myrtle Beach denizens to create interesting and dynamic portraits of the human condition. Set […]
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#ICYMI New Trax: Outtacontroller, EDDY, Negative Rage +
In case you missed it (#ICYMI), here are some recently released tracks and demos that’ll punk you up on this rainy Thursday, plus a free jazz freak out. Caution: this shit is BAD ASS. Outtacontroller – Television Zombie Halifax’s favourite punk band is back with a new LP called Television Zombie on P-Trash (Germany), Young […]
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The power of transformation
Next week, NSCAD’s Queer Collective and its Feminist Collective team up for the annual group show, Art in Drag, at Anna Leonowens Gallery. Curated by Emily Lawrence and Ryan Josey, with the work of 11 artists, the show is an exploration of transformation. Here we take a detailed look at what’s going into one piece, […]
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UNITY Charity’s breakdance launch at the Library tonight
Tonight at the Halifax Central Library (6pm, free), UNITY Charity will announce its new partners in bringing Halifax youth weekly breakdancing and beatboxing sessions, with the Charity’s founder Michael Prosserman aka “Bboy Piecez.” The national community organization has made its way to our city via Branden “Haste” Taylor and Matthew “Testament” Jones, leaders of the breakdancing sessions […]
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Listen to the new Mint Records comp feat. Halifax bands
Today, Vancouver’s indie label Mint Records — home to Nardwuar, The Evaporators, Jay Arner and Halifax’s very own, Monomyth — released Hot Heros 2, a compilation of hot new tracks from the label’s roster and friends, with another Halifax’s-very-own, Heaven for Real. Can you identify the label’s aesthetic throughout this comp? Maybe they’re isn’t a unifying theme; […]
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Watch Classified’s new vid produced by Dave Hung & Tyler Ross
This morning, Dave Hung and Tyler Ross dropped their new video for Classified‘s “No Pressure” featuring Snoop Dogg on Maxim.com. Filmed in both L.A. and Halifax, it’s fucking hilarious and well-shot with a great storyline, and features cameos by Ron Jeremy, Tom Green, Jonathan Torrens, Paul Doucette, Grant Keddy, Emily Ross, Pat Harland, and many more […]
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Watch this for tips on helping The Shoebox Project
This morning, the Halifax organizers of The Shoebox Project, a national organization featured in last week’s issue of The Coast, released a heartwarming video that shows the immense value of small gestures. The project, founded in 2012, collects items in shoeboxes (up to $50) during the holiday season that many women need and distributes them to […]
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Check out all this cool shit at Pro Skates this weekend
Haayy, you hear the new Lil Wayne mixtape yet? Man, Wayne has gone off. That Hotline Bling remix? lol. Anyway, it’s Friday and our dogs down at Pro Skates have some sweet shit lined up this weekend, if you feel like chilling out and buying nice stuff, which you probably should. TONIGHT At 8:30pm, catch the screening of Bath […]
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The Patriot Way: An Interview with the NFL’s Troy Brown
Tonight at HFX Sports Bar & Grill (check it out), Troy Brown is in town. The wide receiver of the New England Patriots for fifteen years, with three Super Bowl rings (2002, 2004, 2005), five AFC wins and an induction into the Patriots Hall of Fame, came by The Coast today to chat about his football career. One lucky fan at […]
