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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Jay Mayne and Thrillah Kane: Head to head
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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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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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 […]
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Nocturne it up with Dustin Harvey and Greg Van Slyke
Alderney Landing Market Zone 5, exhibit #503 www.dustinharvey.com Any time I watch an NBA game, I imagine myself at centre court overwhelmed by the thousands of people standing and clapping, just for me. This unreal moment is what Ovation is all about. “My intent was to create the feeling of standing onstage at the end […]
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Vertical City Performance: All Good Things
Prince George Hotel, 1725 Market Street Zone 1, exhibit #101 www.brucewbarton.com/all-good-things “It’s based on a real-life experience of mine, a near-drowning in a lake on Manitoulin Island, where I was pulled from the water by a fisherman, and based on the complex, lingering ripples of that event for me and for my family,” says writer/director […]
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City Natives bring their A-game
Four men and some badass beats make up City Natives, but Illfundz (Brandon Arnold), Bne (Blake Francis), Beaatz (Shelby Sappier) and Gearl Francis bring you one solid message. “The biggest message we present through our music is that if you work every day and focus hard enough you can achieve success, doesn’t matter if you’re […]
