Former Halifax-based electronic musician AA Wallace returns from Toronto on Saturday to shake up The Seahorse (2037 Gottingen, 10pm, $12) with dance-party cone-heads Tupper Ware Remix Party. It’s going to be all kinds of crazy, especially since Wallace just released his second party album In Alpha Zones, an 11-track synth-pop romp on Culvert Music. For his homecoming, Wallace tells […]
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#ICYMI: Seth Smith’s new flick, new Stickswork mix and more
This March (#RIP) was a super freaky month for local releases in film, video and music. In this edition of In Case You Missed It (#ICYMI), you can get freaked out by the following: Seth Smith’s new short film The Brym The creator of 2012 indie feature and slime-fest Lowlife, Seth Smith released his new four-minute short […]
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Taking centre stage after a decade in the background
“The older I get and the more I play, the more I realize the magic of it all,” says violinist Donald MacLennan, on his passion for swing-based gypsy jazz music. For the last decade, the Antigonish resident has been fiddling with all manner of folk artists—including Ben Caplan, Jennah Barry and Michael Dalton—and with quartets […]
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Meet the fresh DJs behind Halifax’s hottest dance party
It takes a bunch of DJs to create a scene like the fourth instalment of BAH-NAH-NAH, happening Friday, April 1 at The Company House (2202 Gottingen Street, 10pm, $5). This soiree is so hot you’ll feel “like summer is right around the corner.” DJ Shyshaya (AKA Shaya Ishaq, pictured above left) I’m from Ottawa, and […]
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Photos from Friday’s We Believe Survivors rally
Last Friday, in the wake of the verdict that found defamed CBC host Jian Ghomeshi ‘not guilty’ of sexual assault, the Mount Saint Vincent University Feminist Collective organized a rally outside of the Nova Scotia Provincial Courthouse to stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault in Canada. “It was definitely a very emotional afternoon that […]
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Casting call: Star Wars fan film seeks actors in Halifax galaxy
Calling all defenders of a galaxy far, far away: Halifax director David Connellan is looking for several actors to fill various roles for a locally shot Star Wars fan film at an open casting session on Saturday, April 2, at the Sobeys Community Room (2651 Windsor Street, 2pm-6pm). “The movie will be a five minute-long short that […]
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Detroit’s Royce da 5’9” coming to Halifax on his Canadian tour
Detroit rap heavyweight Royce da 5’9” is coming to Halifax in May! The friend of Eminem (freminem?) from their duo Bad Meets Evil went on to work with some of the biggest names in hip-hop from Big Sean to TechN9ne to Common and more. His new album, Layers, will be out on April 15 and he continues to […]
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Songs to celebrate the life and music of Jay Smith
While on tour with Matt Mays in Edmonton, struggling with depression and addictions, Cape Breton songwriter and legendary Rock Ranger James ‘Jay’ Smith took his own life on March 27, 2013. Musical communities across Canada collectively mourned the loss of one of Nova Scotia’s greatest rock musicians, known as the lead of Sydney’s Rock Ranger, as […]
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When wrestling tag-teams punk rock
When Adrian Bruhm, Joel Langis and Coleman Johnston got together to form a punk band, they realized what united them more than their love of punk music was their passion for professional wrestling. Or as Bruhm puts it, “the world’s greatest form of sports entertainment.” Joined by newest member Mike Ainslie on guitar, The B+ […]
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Halifax rockers The Everywheres are on Broad City tonight
Tonight on MUCH (11pm AST), a little ditty called “Watch It Grow” by Halifax psych-rockers The Everywheres will have 10 or so glorious seconds of airtime on one of the most popular comedy shows in America. Yeah, that’s right: The Everywheres will be on Broad City. The Everywheres LP by The Everywheres “This really is […]
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Hamilton punk band TV Freaks in Halifax for two shows only
If you’re a fan of The Stooges, Sub Pop‘s Pissed Jeans, Black Flag or any good punk music at all, then you only have two chances to see TV Freaks this week and you better take them both. From Hamilton, I’ve spied that the band is here recording music over at Fun Dog. They play tonight at Plan B (2180 Gottingen Street, 8pm, […]
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Where We Practice: Three Sheet
WHO THEY ARE After years of touring, two albums and multiple music awards, Halifax’s alternative hip-hop group Three Sheet took time to cool off after last summer. The band—including beatboxer and vocal scratcher EMC (AKA Eric McIntyre), emcee Expedyte (AKA Matt Kliffer), vocalist Vanessa Furlong, Kevin Tilley (bass) and Ryan O’Quinn (guitar)—recently added DJ Uncle […]