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Hotline tips on how to survive the Halifax Pop Explosion
Here we are, doggies. Tonight is the first evening of the Halifax Pop Explosion, five full days of the coolest bands in hip-hop, indie rock, indie pop and regular pop. There’s also a symphony experience, an incredible comedy lineup, songs for the folkier set, an HPX Conference, the Collide Creative Technology Conference and much more. If you haven’t […]
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Q&A: Fuck the Facts will fuck you up tonight at Gus’ Pub
Legendary metal-grindcore band Fuck the Facts is gonna fuck you up tonight at Gus’ Pub (10pm, $10) with Orchid’s Curse, Cottus and Dumpster. The Ottawa/Gatineau “mulletcore” heavies independently released Desire Will Rot in August, which has been getting thumbs ups across the board. I caught up with bassist/vocalist Marc Bourgon to see what’s fucking new. Congrats on […]
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Winnipeg’s Greg MacPherson returns to Halifax tonight
“I’m a typical Islander on the mainland,” says Cape Breton original Greg MacPherson, based in Winnipeg, “No matter how long I’m away, I always feel a pull to be back here.” Tonight at The Company House, MacPherson returns to Halifax with his drummer Rob Gardiner and local songstress Gianna Lauren. Currently finishing up a new album, MacPherson […]
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Q&A with Brian Shannon on new skate vid, screening Saturday
On Saturday, our g’s at Pro Skates (6451 Quinpool) are screening a new feature-length skate vid by Montreal filmographer and occasional VANS doggie, Brian Shannon. Shot since 2013 in Montreal, Chicago, Arizona and Barcelona, Duluth features the elite riding of Josh Clark, Zander Mitchell, Ethan Kilcour, Dustin Henry, Charles Deschamps, Johnny Purcell, Nate Oliver and a fuckload of other people. “This is all […]
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Nocturne 2015: how to party arty
“We love for people to experience Nocturne and see what the artists in their community are actually doing,” says Nocturne coordinator Kim Farmer. “They’re creating projects specifically for the night, and most are creating them specifically for this year’s theme, Found and Lost and Found. It’s about our changing city, about the changes that happen […]
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The greatest wheel on earth
After a conversation about Nocturne, spectacle and the role of art over dinner with friends, “the image of a ferris wheel stuck with me,” says NSCAD instructor Anna Sprague. “Perhaps it has something to do with my obsession with the carnivalesque.” For Nocturne, Sprague has commissioned a 68-foot ferris wheel to sit atop Citadel Hill. […]
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Drum Voices is must-see, must-hear
“Drum Voices is a sound piece that transports the drum to a place before time,” says drummer Lindsay Dobbin (Gift From God). On the Dartmouth Common, Dobbin will present a surround-sound installation of a choir of drum parts, to create a full-body experience that is out of this world. Dobbin, who is trained in Shamanic […]
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It’s a Halifax made of shoes
“This was inspired by the Nocturne theme this year, Found and Lost and Found, and the changing of social spaces,” says material-artist Kim Danio. “You know The Economy Shoe Shop? I thought, I just have to make a shoe out of the Shoe Shop, and it all went from there.” Using recycled and found materials, […]
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The Wolfpack’s cinematic shut-ins
Five years ago on a regular day in Manhattan, filmmaker Crystal Moselle noticed an unusual-looking group walking along First Avenue. The six Ray Ban-wearing, long-haired brothers, then aged 11 to 18, looked like the Reservoir Dogs. Moselle was compelled to strike up a conversation, and soon discovered that their chance encounter was one of the […]
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DJ/producer Ryan Hemsworth—the Q&A
Last May, Halifax-bred Ryan Hemsworth began releasing underground jams by new DJs to his fans as Secret Songs. On Wednesday he’s bringing his faves here for HPX’s Secret Songs Showcase, and it’s gonna be fire. Just 25, Hemsworth is a veritable DJ superstar. He’s played Pitchfork Music Festival and Coachella, remixed some of pop and […]
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True rock, harsh and clean
“Rock music is pretty meat and potatoes. That’s all good, but we try to throw a lime wedge or some cilantro in there too,” says Charles Austin, one of the master chefs behind Halifax’s Psychic Fair. Since 2013, Psychic Fair—also with scene veterans Cliff Gibb, Andrew Glencross and Josh Salter—has been spicing up the band’s personal […]