Letting go takes courage. In 2000, with the support of JazzEast and the Canada Council for the Arts, jazz saxophonist David Aaron brought improv to the Khyber. Born in Toronto but based in New York, Aaron conducted quirky open performances with no set lists or prepared repertoires by local and international musicians. Eventually, he handed […]
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El-P
Thursday, October 18 at Reflections Cabaret, 5184 Sackville Street, 8pm, $10 Remember that scene in Tropic Thunder when Robert Downey Jr.’s character has a career retrospective with Ben Stiller’s character, telling him to “never go full retard”? Well, there’s a way in which El-P (Jaime Meline), the Brooklyn DJ, member of Company Flow and co-founder […]
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Tasseomancy
w/Sea Glasses, Doom Squad, Demetra Thursday, October 18 at The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street, 8pm, $10 “Music is mystical,” says Sari Lightman, vocalist and songwriter in Tasseomancy, the Eastern European-inspired ambient-folk band she plays in with her twin sister Romy. After releasing the Tasseomancy EP in 2008 under their old moniker, Ghost Bees, the […]
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Freak Heat Waves
w/Heaven For Real, TORSO, Each Other Thursday, October 18 at The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street, 8pm, $10 “We’ve always been attracted to the minimalist side of post-punk,” says Thomas Di Ninno. “And that was definitely a starting point for us.” On Thursday at The Bus Stop Theatre, with TORSO, Heaven For Real and […]
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Cauldron
w/Metalheart, Dumpster Mummy, Black Moor Friday, October 19 at The Pavilion, 5816 Cogswell Street, 6pm, $10 Some of our brightest leave the Maritimes for Canada’s bigger cities, with dreams of stable employment and stronger economies. It’s in the news all the time. But how many move away to drum in a traditional heavy metal band? […]
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Slam Dunk the funk
With influences from everywhere, Slam Dunk challenges descriptors with upbeat in-between rock that makes them one of the coolest bands in Canada. From ska-punk to garage-punk to total love party to West Coast surf funneled through rusty cheese graters, it’s all there and it’s all not there, too. The Victoria, BC fun factory plays Gus’ […]
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Danspace
Tara Thorne is a pop culture Casanova. The charismatic crooner and songwriter of indie-alt-pop trio, Dance Movie, has a history of alluding to modern media. Several of the earlier singles and EPs (including Ladycops, a collection of songs about TV detectives) are full of prime-time inside jokes. But Thorne (a longtime Coast staffer) says she’s […]
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Water world
We’re just getting our tour legs. Is that a thing? Maybe I mean sea legs, that’s more appropriate for a band named Hey Ocean!,” says vocalist and bassist Dave Vertesi, laughing. Currently touring across Canada, Vancouver’s sand-and-sun pop trio returns with same-city dark prog-rockers The Zolas, alongside Halifax’s The Lucy Grays, at Michael’s Bar and […]
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Brain tease
Some of Halifax’s best pop-punk and hardcore punk bands will be featured on Stupid Brain, a compilation tape (soon-to-be vinyl) put together by The Fat Stupids’ Craig Hamlin and Matt Grace. Moncton’s Fear of Lipstick, Halifax’s Tongan Death Grip, Dead Red, The Dean Molenkos, Vixens, The Donairs, Outtacontroller and Dartmouth’s The Scoopouts are just a […]
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Fall Arts Preview 2012
Click here to read up on a packed fall of fun with events of the visual art, film, musical, literary, theatre, comedy and dance variety.
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Serve and protect
Several committees at the Ecology Action Centre focus on the protection of Nova Scotia’s wilderness. Not only does forestry management benefit our atmospheric biology, it keeps intact the habitats of over 30 at-risk species. But facts and figures can lose potency. Sometimes outreach needs to be more visceral. Believing in art as a powerful form […]
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Drag city
Since the 1500s, philosophers have explored theories of plate tectonics, positing that crust-topped lithospheres gently move under the earth’s surface over eons. For scientists, the theory explains topographical similarities between far-off geological locations. At the core of continental drift theory is the sense that distinct parts create a unified whole. Fast forward a few millennia […]