If you breathe in enough ammonia and asbestos, your lungs will stiffen and crackle like an old record. The soft honeycomb tissues will form obstructive nodes, you will cough (hard), and eventually your blood won’t carry oxygen to your brain. Delirious and suffocating, you’ll realize you have white lung. After festering from exposure, it can […]
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The .Gifs
“I really like the boy-girl thing, like Sonic Youth and Eric’s Trip but grungier,” says The .Gifs’ Bijoux Wilcox. “And I use a Grunge FX pedal, which I love.” Wilcox moved from Toronto last year and began jamming with Coleman Johnston in a Dartmouth warehouse. While recording a split tape with The Cannisters, Jesse Webber […]
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Jennah Barry
With a folk guitar, a slide guitar and a voice as sweet as honey, Jennah Barry’s first album Young Men is “a lot of juicy gossip,” she says, drawing on a string of loves lost and won between the South Shore and Toronto. Recorded at the Old Confidence Lodge in Riverport over the past year, […]
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Monomyth
“This should really be about Graeme [Stewart],” says Josh Salter of the young pup who’s teaching old dogs Salter (Quivers), Seamus Dalton (Nap Eyes) and Andrew Patterson (The Bad Arts) some new tricks. On a debut cassette that’s part soda-pop-malt-shoppe, part shoegaze math-rock, Monomyth write and play to its strengths, touring Canada until July before […]
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The Cannisters
Last summer, Daniel St. Dan brought his songs from the country to a punk warehouse in Dartmouth. With Dylan Jewers (drums) and Jesse Webber (guitar), The Cannisters recorded tracks that are “somewhere between extreme noise and good old-fashioned folk,” says St. Dan. Playing over 20 shows at Jacob’s Lounge since then (a unique opportunity for […]
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Dyscontrol
Having known Alex Mitchell (Bloodhouse, Tomcat Combat) and Dave Brown (Career Suicide) for a few years, Lachie MacDonald (Horses) moved back to Halifax and turned their jams into Dyscontrol, a stripped-down punk band like The Undertones and Wipers. “Unrefined, straight to the point, with rawness and honesty that’s not hidden by a lot of extraneous […]
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Soul sister
When you listen to Jessie Brown’s rich, powerful voice, it’s hard to believe she’s new to centre stage. “I still get quite nervous, but I love that excitement,” Brown says, having eased into the spotlight. “When I lived in Moncton, I hosted karaoke nights so I could get used to performing and drunk hecklers.” The […]
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Take a trip with Gary War
Gary War is bringing some high potency truth to his first Halifax show. The experimental psychedelic rock outfit from Brooklyn, New York takes no influence outside of personal interpretation and experience. Cassette tapes and various forms of releases over the last decade have culminated in the kaleidoscope sound wave that is Jared’s Lot, his third […]
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You’ll Never Get to Heaven start praying
Enter the dreamy soundscape of You’ll Never Get To Heaven and you’ll experience an ambience that you’ll want to believe in. Studying in London, Ontario for the last few years, the electric pop project of Halifax’s Chuck Blazevik (Dreamsploitation) and Alice Hansen is a high voltage of creative harmonies. You’ll Never Get to Heaven plays […]
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Bloodshot Bill’s crackle and hiss
With a custom-made Richtone amp, one-man-rockabilly-band Bloodshot Bill is a pastiche of smoky dance halls, grain-mash bourbon and monochrome broadcasts. Touring the world for about 15 years, the prolific Montrealer keeps taking us back to the era of American music that mixed southern railway songs with the pomade pompadours of post-war sexual and social rebellion. […]
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Hot Water
From locals Tongan Death Grip and Vixens, to bands from PEI, Winnipeg, New Brunswick and Ontario, 25 diverse punk acts play the all-ages Harbour Water Fest in Halifax this weekend. Eekum Seekum’s guitarist and main manager of diyhalifax.ca, Ryley Beggs, started the annual event three years ago to provide a space for people outside of […]
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Tears of a clown
Naïve and lovelorn, Pierrot embodies a melancholy we have all known. Floppy white blouse, pale face, black teardrop, Pierrot is a sad clown in every sense. A character from Commedia dell’arte, the Renaissance theatre-style of roleplay and mood, Pierrot longs for the love of the undeserving Columbine, who has run off with Harlequin. His ardour […]