hi handsome! Another weekend, another cover show? I’m not complaining, especially when the show in question features a Modern Lovers tribute band. Remember the Modern Lovers? Remember sitting with your stupid friends laughing at the line “Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole,” and wondering why no one else thought it was funny? Well, you can sing your heart out with like-minded souls to the tribute band at the Seahorse this Saturday (10:30pm, $6), along with Iggy and the Stooges and Blondie. We asked the responsible musicians to share their favorite tribute songs with us and tell us why their
Alison Lang
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Let’s Get Trashed at Thrashfest
Oh hi metalheads. One of your biggest parties of the year is upon us again this weekend as Thrashfest returns for its third round. The two-day festival began humbly, as a house party in co-organizer Matt Francis‘ house, and has now unfolded to an tipsy and exuberant annual affair at Gus’. This year’s lineup features […]
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Great Bands, Free Tunez
Buncha new/free music today! First: Homo Duplex, the husband-wife-duo (comprised of the Maynards’ Kristina Parlee and Attack in Black’s Ron Bates) has another wee EP online for your listening pleasure here. They pull words out of hats and write songs about them! We’re really enjoying these three spacy, fuzzy songs during this busy work day […]
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Pon de Replay this Sunday
I love this song and I don’t care what you think. And half this duo will be here on Sunday! (Hint, it’s not Rhianna. I knowwww.) But it’s Elephant Man and I’m not talking John Merrick, boyeeee. His show is called “Best of the Elephant Man” – so I assume it’s a greatest hits kinda-thing? […]
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Weekend Diary: Bad Vibrations and Evil Face-Dolls
I began the weekend watching a woman split a watermelon open with her thighs: hungry? Then there was some talk about Liberace. There was a very funny video where Liberace walked through his ostentatious house, playing piano on the carpet, in the bathtub, and in the closet, heh heh. “I bet Liberace and his driver […]
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Back to School Rules with Bad Vibrations and Friends
PIZZA IS NOT FOR SCHOOL adam o’reillywe quite like this poster, it’s like 3-D FRIDAY NIGHT IS LOOKING STACKED. Bad Vibrations, Duzheknew, Quivers, MicroorgansSeahorseFRIDAY September 17$710:30pm *Note – I said this show was on Saturday in the paper. I LIED.
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He’s Got a TV Eye
Listen up, nerds. Did you watch Double Complete Rainbow more than five times? Do you routinely giggle at the Grape Crushing Lady? Do you find yourself awake late at night, hunched over your kitchen table half-drunk, watching Best Cry Ever , your face frozen in a rictus of fascination and fear? If you answered yes […]
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Movies on music
Each year, while the red carpets are being vacuumed and reels dusted off in preparation for Atlantic Film Festival events downtown, Dalhousie Art Gallery hosts an early-evening series of free screenings for cinephiles on a budget. This year, in honour of the Festival’s 30th anniversary, they’re doing something a little different; a series of music […]
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Channelling TV Carnage
Jean Claude Van Damme is defending himself on trial, thrusting his crotch out at an absurd angle to a bewildered courtroom. Former NDP leader Ed Broadbent stars in an election commercial where he raps his platform against a Day-Glo orange backdrop. Rosie O’Donnell plays a developmentally disabled person with baffling, offensive vigour. All of the […]
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Mom and Dad Went to a Show
The past few months have heralded a regular Tribute Band Explosion in this fair city. This plus the blazing resurgence of grunge (as dictated by newspapers and designer Charlotte Ronson’s runways full of Doc Martens and flower prints) made us think the existence of a Nirvana tribute band was a foregone conclusion.However, Endless Nameless (comprised […]
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Hottie Alert
closer to God We’re a little late to the game on this, but Scott Stapp, of the Grammy-award-winning band Creed, will be sharing his musical vision with us on a very special “VH1 Storytellers tour” where he will be playing stripped-down version of all his hit jams in ways that “fans have never heard before.” […]
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CANCELLED: Hatebreed
what’s the deal, tough guys? Another one bites the dust…. Starting Monday, ticket purchasers may return their ticket to the Ticket Atlantic Box Office for a refund. Anyone who has purchased online or via phone will have their credit card refunded automatically. Anyone who has a question regarding refunds for their tickets may call Ticket Atlantic at 902-451-1221.