Peter Brötzmann, Last Lizard Friday, May 22, 7:30pm Fort Massey United Church 5303 Tobin Street $25 “I like spontaneous collaborations without too much thinking involved,” says Montreal’s Alex Zhang Hungtai AKA Last Lizard, formerly KA Dirty Beaches. The experimental tenor saxophonist was last in town for the 2013 Halifax Pop Explosion. He did an improv set […]
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Getting physical
Indie radio producer, media artist and Coast contributor Veronica Simmonds jumps into the 2015 Mayworks Festival with Work of the Dancer, a mixed media performance combining documentary audio, music by Lindsay Dobbin and contemporary dance, Thursday to Saturday at The Bus Stop Theatre. After meeting dancer and choreographer Jacinte Armstrong during a residency with Secret […]
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Desi Gordon’s expanding acoustic vibes
For the last few years, singer-songwriter Desi Gordon has been toiling away on the south shore writing love tunes between tours as a vocalist for fellow shore sweetheart Jennah Barry. On Saturday, Gordon’s songs make their Halifax debut with intense, ’80s-inspired instrumentation by Jay Crocker (Ghostkeeper) and Dice E. Parks (Joyful Talk), which take her […]
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Always say Namas-DIE
A few years ago, a couple of local horror filmmakers entered a Quentin Tarantino contest with a fake grindhouse-inspired trailer. The entry ended up winning, and that honour scored financing and development for one of Halifax’s most well-known film productions, 2011’s Hobo with a Shotgun. This year, a couple of local horror filmmakers entered the […]
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Space Age time
“We certainly love a good melody,” says The Space Age’s Andy Patil. “But we really love the urgency and immediacy of heavier genres.” With Greg Fry (The Heavy Blinkers) and Roger Nelson, The Space Age celebrates a new vinyl seven-inch on Friday at Gus’ Pub, the band’s first release since 2011. Produced by AA Wallace […]
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Highlights of the ECMAs
Holy smokes! St. John’s, Newfoundland was an amazing host for East Coast Music Week and the annual East Coast Music Awards! It was an honour and pleasure to be among some of the region’s most talented artists, publicists, industry pros and journalists. Congrats to Stephen Cooke for the Media Person of the Year award, and […]
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ECMA celebration fraught
Of all things, the east coast is strong. We work from love and for each other. We work when there are no rewards. We work, and we work hard, because that’s just what we do. We are resilient and resourceful and grateful. The East Coast Music Awards were created over two decades ago to celebrate […]
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Comedy on purpose
Unless it’s a gaggle of wasted college bros on a pub crawl, I didn’t think of “comedy” when I heard “The Toothy Moose.” That is, until February, when veteran Halifax comic Ian Black began hosting comedy nights every Sunday in a funky side-room of the Argyle Street dance bar. “It’s been really nice to have […]
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Music Review: Thrillah
Welcome to #church.The latest self-titled EP from Dartmouth’s Thrillah is a sermon on the hustle, as he bounces from struggling on the grind to ladies grinding. In its approach, Thrillah feels like an abridged version of his multi-chaptered 2014 project Thrillville 2. And as far as local rap goes, the EP is well-produced, consistent and […]
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Where we practice: Vulva Culture
WHO THEY ARE Last summer, Amy V (Scribbler) realized she needed more elements for her new solo experimental-pop project, Vulva Culture, so she recruited certain friends with special talents: Kayla Stevens brings harmonic and effects guitar, Evan Matthews drums with a classical background, Hannah Guinan (Old & Weird) owns unconventional basslines and Bianca Palmer locks […]
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Experimental music
It’s time to check the freezing temperatures at the door and heat the hell up with The Experiment, a multi-act party experience at both The Marquee and The Seahorse on Friday night. Presented by Birchwood Entertainment, The Experiment promises a two-storey full-sensory experience from visual art installations by Wasako AV to appearances from Halifax Circus […]
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Halifax’s pinball wizards
“It all started with a wrestling belt,” says Danny Baldwin, owner of Halifax Vintage Arcade in his corner store, Daily Sweets (2860 Oxford Street). Two years ago, he traded his WWF belt on Kijiji for a videogame, which turned into a pinball machine, which turned into a small business. Now he’s one of a few […]
