ODOD afterparty w/Jay Mayne, Thrillah, Alfie, Nicole Ariana Thursday, October 23, 11pm The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street $15 Jay Mayne (above) and Daniel “Thrillah” Kane (right) have been building their rap games all year. In case you’ve been sleeping on it, both Dartmouth-raised rappers have been releasing tracks on the regular, racking up regional […]
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Sandi Rankaduwa’s deep-dish comedy
Sandi Rankaduwa w/Jen Kirkman, Bob Kerr, Jon Blair, Aisha Alfa Friday, October 24, 7pm The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street $21/$25 “I did the improv intensive program at iO Theatre,” says Sandi Rankaduwa, a Halifax comic who’s been hanging out at Chicago’s best comedy joints for the last year. “It’s a lesser-known improv institution but […]
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Get with Against Me!
Against Me! w/Like A Motorcycle, Weekend Dads, Dyscontrol Thursday, October 23, 8pm Olympic Community Hall, 2304 Hunter Street$40 In 2012, Florida aggro-punk band Against Me! announced that singer Tom Gabel was transitioning to a female identity and would be known as Laura Jane Grace. This year, the band released its sixth full-length album, the walloping […]
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Gianna Lauren’s a warm outsider
Gianna Lauren w/Cold Specks, Nick Ferrio and His Feelings, Maicamia Saturday, October 25, 9:30pm Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $27/$30 “If you thought what I did before was outsider, this new record is explosive,” says Halifax singer-songwriter Gianna Lauren. “I’m really looking forward to playing these new songs live.” She says she’s surprised herself with […]
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Being Mozart’s Sister
Mozart’s Sister w/ Twin Shadow, Most People, Coco Barracuda Friday, October 24, 8pm Olympic Community Hall, 2304 Hunter Street $39/$40 Mozart’s Sister w/Freelove Fenner, Un Blonde, Old and Weird Saturday, October 25, 10pm Gus’ Pub, 2605 Agricola Street $15 “I don’t really know how you measure success,” says Caila Thompson-Hannant, the voice and mind behind […]
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Rich Aucoin: Halifax’s prince
Rich Aucoin w/Windom Earle, Walrus, Kappa Chow Thursday, October 23, 8pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $20.25/$25 “Imagine an amusement park where you just re-enact iconic movies scenes,” says Rich Aucoin. I laugh and tell him he’s already living that dream and actually he is the amusement park. To understand Aucoin, it’s helpful to know […]
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Cam Smith’s Cannon in front of them
Cam Smith w/Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, BadBadNotGood Thursday, October 23, 7pm Halifax Forum, 2901 Windsor Street $39/$45 It’s been an insane year for Dartmouth’s Cam Smith. By dropping bar-setting videos for “Turbo” and “Mad Crack” in advance of self-produced party album Cannon, he has primed us for his HPX takeover. “Rap is one of the hardest genres […]
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HPX: Day one, in words
HPX is always a bittersweet time for me, I love watching bands perform, seeing friends and meeting new ones, but I dislike wearing festival bracelets and having any trace of a bar stamp on my hand the next day. Clearly, I deserve your sympathy. I met two nice pals Adria and Nicole at the Atlantica, […]
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Agathe Simon: Antarctic Spectrum
1880 Hollis Street Zone 2, exhibit 201 www.agathesimon.com If you’ve never heard of Argentinian explorer Gabriela Conti (1974-2010), it’s likely because she is the work of Parisian artist Agathe Simon’s imagination. But that doesn’t make Conti any less real. “She’s a source of inspiration for me because her all life is about freedom, creation, desire […]
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Teenage Kicks are hard to beat
In 1978, Belfast punk band The Undertones released the single “Teenage Kicks,” which gave voice to youthful sexual feelings through distortion, choral repetition and created a history that lives to this day. With a much more alt-rock sound and elements of punk, the Toronto-based rock duo of brothers, Pete and Jeff van Helvoort, are aware […]
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Ryan Suter and Adriana Kuiper: Night Tweeter (No. 2)
Citadel Hill Zone 3, exhibit 300 www.adrianakuiper.com “There’s the famous scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind in which the humans, in an attempt to communicate with the extra-terrestrials using a combination of flashing coloured lights and single musical notes, try make contact or to communicate,” explains artist Ryan Suter. “This form of communication […]
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Leah Garnett: Drawing on Air
The Nook, 2116 Gottingen Street/King’s Wharf Zone 4, exhibit 400 www.leahgarnett.com The mind always wanders, and Mount Allison professor Leah Garnett’s Drawing on Air has encouraged daydreaming since she began the project in 2002. With a broadcast station at King’s Wharf and a listening room at The Nook, Garnett will read stories that invite drawing […]
