kou cho ching Last week it was announced that a wide array of hip-hop artists and musicians —- including Pete Rock, Classified and Halifax’s favorite Beatnut, JuJu —- would both be performing at the rather cool-sounding Hopscotch Arts Festival (Sept 4 to 11.) While it gives us an undeniable thrill to be staring down the […]
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Christina Martin Can Too
After nearly a decade, Christina Martin is ready to break. Her third album, I Can Too, is set for release for September 7, and Martin is preparing for a national tour with Cuff the Duke on some dates (lap steel player Dale Murray co-produced I Can Too with Martin and is also Martin’s fiancee. Aww.) The album features Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor and Cuff frontman Wayne Petti. She’ll be playing the Seahorse on Friday, September 10 and the title song from the album is available for download if you sign up for Martin’s mailing list at www.christinamartin.net.
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Your Youth is Returning to Haunt You
this photo makes me think “ride the snake.” and oils. lots of terrible, terrible oils. The Paragon has just tweeted that some guy from Our Lady Peace, Edwin from I Mother Earth, and some guy from The Tea Party have created some kind of thing called Crash Karma and this ensemble will be playing a […]
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Nova Scotia Music Week Showcasing Performers
Announc’d! Nova Scotia Music Week runs from November 4 – 7 in Yarmouth. Acres and AcresAlert the MedicAndrew Hunter & The GatherersAnna LudlowBig Game HuntBlack MoorBrian BakerBroken OhmsCaledoniaCarleton Stone Drives the Big WheelChelsea NisbettChrissy CrowleyChristina MartinCyndi CainDavid MylesDrumlinDwayne Cote & Duane AndrewsDwight DeonFleur MainvilleForeverGhettosocksGianna LaurenGlory Glory Man UnitedGloryhoundGypsophiliaHawpIan SherwoodJason MacDonaldJay SmithJenocideJohn CampbelljohnJon BryantJon McKielKayoKelly SloanKev […]
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GWAR’s Quarter-Life Crisis
the handsome family The rumors are correct – GWAR is returning to Halifax for the Pop Explosion. The “intergalatic snuff-rockers” are embarking on a “Bloody Tour of Horror” to promote their latest album, “Bloody Pit of Horror” – natch. Apparently their tour schedule is quite punishing, considering these dudes have been “on Earth” for about […]
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It’s CRASS DAY
Last year, Steph Johns posted about Crass Day. Because I am not cool and do not know things, I went, “Who or what is a Crass?” and as a result I ended up watching this documentary, where old CRASS members and gracefully aging Brit punks locate the context of the band’s political and artistic significance […]
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Help Construction and Destruction Go Vinyl
If you ask Construction and Destruction’s Colleen Collins to explain the title of her band’s fourth album, be warned; you may feel a little dumb afterwards. “Mutatis Mutandis is a term that’s used in law sometimes,” says the ever-sweet Collins in a lilting alto. “It sort of relates to all the necessary changes having been […]
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Do the Busk-a-Busk
Shannon Webb-CampbellRia Mae will charm you at Backpackers Unless there are good sandwiches available, press conferences in general are pretty boring. Even when they involve fun, ostensibly joyful things, everyone seems bored and tense and most likely are wishing they could whip out double entendres and amusing prattle like the Beatles did in 1964. Music Nova Scotia have chosen a different tack in announcing their 70 showcase artists for Nova Scotia Music Week this November in Yarmouth: they’re getting a cluster of MNS artists to spread the news via song, on the streets. This Tuesday, from 11:30-1:30pm, they’ll be performing
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These Guys Are Opening for the Arcade Fire
Tyler Messick (Museum Pieces) and Virgil Muir (Heavy Meadows) are headed to Nashville, TN this coming weekend to play a gig at the Grand Ole Opry opening for the Arcade Fire on August 9. Um….yeah. Your buddies are playing one of the most famous venues in the world, opening for one of the most beloved […]
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Are We Not Men? We Are R-I-C-H
Jenn Ivanovs all keyed up! HOYO! The seemingly inexhaustible Rich Aucoin was all over Montreal last weekend for shows both scheduled and spontaneous. After spending Friday opening for Of Montreal at Metropolis, Aucoin was woken from a deep Saturday-morning slumber by his bandmate Joel Waddel, who announced that Cage the Elephant had cancelled and Aucoin […]
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My Interview with B.J. Snowden
I was supposed to have an email chat with legendary outsider music star B.J. Snowden earlier this week for the print edition of the Coast, but she was traveling and couldn’t get to a library to check her email, so I didn’t hear from her until mid-Wednesday. Before she responded to my questions, she called […]
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Feast on Metal Fest
these guys will tell you WHAT FOR. This is a good week for those whose tastes run heavy and mordant. First there was the Slayer/Megadeth/Testament show (which we heard was soooo good and loud that it made at least one poor bastard vomit with great gusto). And then there’s the upcoming two-day Weekend of Noise: […]