On the same day as the concert scandal report comes out, there’s this announcement that the Arcade Fire will be playing Alderney Landing on July 28. CLEVER GIRL. If I was better at Photoshop, I would have turned that raptor into the face of the ginger guy from the Arcade Fire who always plays the […]
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Stanfest Lineup
The Stan Rogers Folk Festival has released its lineup for this year (the Fest runs July 1 – 3) and headliners include Judy Collins, who is a contemporary of Joan Baez (and one of me dear ma’s favorites) along with artists like Jason Collett (backed by the mighty Zeus, we hope!) the Crash Test Dummies […]
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Halifax Record Fair
Halifax hasn’t had a record fair since 2004. That seems crazy, considering the number of people in this city who are freaks for vinyl, but it’s true. Childhood friends and record collectors Kevin Beal and Phil McDonald are seeking to rectify this by launching the Halifax Record Fair this Saturday from 8am to 5pm at […]
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Listen to Three Sheet on Background Noise
Before you head out to the Elephant and Castle tonight to see Three Sheet drop their second album Sheet Music, you should head over to Background Noise and listen to last night’s just-uploaded interview, which features delightfully crass hosts Derreck Ord, Luke James, Devin Deuville and Jon Sangster talking trash with four of the five […]
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Soundmarket Moves to Almon Street
Soundmarket Studios — formerly located on Quinpool Road beneath the Buckley’s music store — has now moved north to new digs at 6050 Almon St. The studio’s team of engineers have chosen to unveil their shiny n’ pretty new studio in a rather interesting fashion: They’re hosting a series of free workshops on Saturday and […]
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Tongan Death Grip release Chula Vista on Germany’s P Trash Records
The way Craig Hamlin tells it, the story of how Tongan Death Grip hooked up with Germany’s P Trash Records isn’t particularly dramatic. It doesn’t exactly fit any of those band-makes-good cliches. It’s not an underdog story, or a fairytale come true. It is notable, however, in that it’s a nice old-fashioned happy music story, […]
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Torso Plays in Korea
Ian Chiasson Sato Yuki and Kinki Iori (foreground) Last Sunday (May 29) South Korean noise fans got a wee taste of Halifax when Torso (aka Sandy Saunders) played a show at a bar called Strange Fruit (love that) in Seoul (he was in the city to visit some friends). He was joined on the bill […]
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Tunes At Noon Wants You
halifax.ca frolic in the grass fancy Tunes at Noon – the newly-revitalized summer lunchtime concert series at Grand Parade — is now accepting applications from interested musicians. The mini-concerts will take place every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from noon to 1pm and run from July 13 to September 12. On the HRM website, guidelines stipulate […]
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Dutch Mason Blues Fest Gears Up
Joanne Shaw Taylor There’s been some pretty ace summer festival announcements this year in Nova Scotia and environs, and Truro’s Dutch Mason Blues Fest is no exception. The lineup so far includes Los Lonely Boys, Robert Randolph (listed as one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time), the Eric Clapton-endorsed Gary Clark Jr., […]
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Full Sappyfest Lineup Announced
Steve Foule that’s a gobble gobble! Sappyfest released its line-up this week. I just bought my ticket. Have you bought your ticket? Perhaps you ought to. You can do this by going here. Owen Pallett et Les Mouches | Charles Bradley | Jon Langford & The SadiesChad Van Gaalen | Bonjay | John K. Samson […]
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Get Transfixed Tonight
You may remember Matt Samways from the great, dead Truro noise band PIG. Tonight at Lost and Found he’ll be debuting a new project with Ian Phillips called TRANSFIXED. Basically he takes the parts I actually like about industrial music – hollow vocals and chugging tempos – and spreads them on a soft, minimal sound […]
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Paper Beat Scissors Salts the Snail
The delicate and evocative electro-folk of Paper Beat Scissors (aka Tim Crabtree) will be getting the Snailhouse treatment — Mike Feuerstack has signed on as producer of Crabtree’s upcoming album. Crabtree writes that they’ll be recording in the South Shore’s Confidence Lodge in July and finishing things up in Montreal by summer’s end. Listen to […]