“Is Betty White even still alive?” asks Halifax comic Ian Black, after admitting that his favourite ’90s show is The Golden Girls. “It must be like a Weekend at Bernie’s thing by now.” The Yuk Yuk’s comic, who’s also a regular at the comedy open mics at Bearly’s, Clay West and Gus’ Pub, is gearing […]
Adria Young
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Kind of Bleu
“What kind of salad dressings do you have?” DJ Stilldrunk (Loukas Crowther) asks the server. She lists varieties until DJ T-Woo (Trevor Wood) interrupts her, “Just bring him a bowl of something, he won’t know the difference.” For over four years, these two best friends have hosted the wild monthly dance-party Bleu Nuit. On Saturday, […]
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Mellow Yellow Jacket Avenger
On April 4, guitar superhero Yellow Jacket Avenger (Geoffrey Pye) will play The Seahorse exactly six years after a Seahorse show in 2008, proving that, yes, time is a flat circle. With Chris Pennell (Joel Plaskett Emergency) and Nathan Doucet (Heaven for Real), Yellow Jacket’s revolution (his first Halifax gig since 2011) also brings a […]
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Judge Bitch
I pick you up at sunset in an ’86 IROC-Z blasting eight new excellent tracks by Judge Bitch (Dartmouth’s Adam T. Burke). Stallone, already in the car, growls that Gridiron is metallic and prismatic synthwave with dark and evil throwbacks. This is Judge Bitch’s third release on France’s arcade-retro Aphasia Records and speed-chase jams “Anaconda” and […]
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Nap Eyes’ elusive and inclusive new album
“You just gotta be tired and ready to snooze,” says Nigel Chapman, one of the masterminds behind Halifax and Montreal’s Nap Eyes, “A good nap can be the best.” After a year of tinkering, Nap Eyes releases the full length Whine of the Mystic on Montreal’s Plastic Factory Records on March 25. Releasing EPs since […]
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Label appeal
“Do I ever buy beer based on the label? Oh yeah I do,” says Ron Bishop, beer merchant at Premier Wine and Spirits. Shelf after shelf, we are given overwhelming choices. Want a simple stout? There are 15 that range from a mass-produced import to a secret recipe from the nearby craft brewery. When it […]
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JRDN’s living the dream
“The fans might not be there to see me, but every chance I get, I’m gonna’ show them what kind of R&B I’m bringing to the table,” says JRDN (AKA Jordan Croucher). The silky-voiced singer is opening a Canadian tour with pop-rockers Hedley, his biggest gig so far. But this smooth operator is just getting […]
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Major Jillionaire
“It’s easy to get lazy as a DJ, especially when you play three nights a week in the same environment to a drunk crowd,” says Halifax’s DJ Tom Fleming, 2013’s Red Bull Thre3style winner and house DJ for The Dome. On Thursday, with Mixre and DJ Savoury, Fleming will open for one of Diplo’s dance-hall […]
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Justine Colley holds court
“This is my last year, and I have one more goal as a university player, and that’s to win the national championship,” says Justine Colley, senior player on the Saint Mary’s University Huskies women’s basketball team. She is the force propelling SMU to the top: The team went undefeated in the regular season, and is […]
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Thick as Weed Thief
“It wouldn’t be a hard thing to put one over on us,” says Aaron Burke, vocalist for Weed Thief, “but we’re no thieves.” Drummer Tri Le adds: “In high school, everyone got ripped off.” On Friday, three-piece Weed Thief releases a new tape at Plan B to follow up last year’s pair of EPs. “Weed […]
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Wyrd Distro for the people
This Saturday, outsider art site Weird Canada launches Wyrd Distro, its not-for-profit indie music distribution service for the entire country. This is monumental. Twenty-one celebration parties will happen across Canada simultaneously, featuring regional bands and a videochat with Weird Canada’s founder Aaron Levin and executive director Marie LeBlanc Flanagan. The Wyrd Distro is a game-changer. […]
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Beyond February
“What’s important to understand is that African-Canadian history is Canadian history, and acquiring knowledge and understanding of this history is not only for people of African descent,” says Sylvia D. Hamilton, Gemini-winning filmmaker, writer, poet, journalist and educator. For this year’s African Heritage Month, Hamilton and the Dalhousie Art Gallery’s Ron Foley Macdonald have curated […]
