Alison Lang

Last summer, when KC Spidle formed Bad Vibrations, his vision was simple: “My plan was to rock,” he says. A veteran of many a venerable local group (The Hold, Dog Day, Husband and Knife), Spidle was itching to play loud, heavy music—“not wanky,” he says. He wrote 13 songs in two hours and then corralled […]

The first time that Dana Beeler played in front of an audience, she was almost overwhelmed by nerves. “I performed at a high school open mic and almost fell off my chair,” she says. Although Beeler has played in a bluegrass band with her family for years, the 19-year-old says it took time for her […]

Here’s a conundrum: You and your friends start a band. You make punk that spangles, with romantic snappy hooks that echo in the brain for days. You do a small tour, you release a tape and suddenly everyone is in love with you. Crowds throng your shows, each person banging into the other, clutching each […]

Mydriasis is one of those bands where the “new” status is a little amorphous: They’ve been jamming in various incarnations for the past two years, and three members—Mike Atwell, Mitch Henshaw and Jeff Morrison—have played together for years. But after going through three bass players and two singers, guitarist Henshaw says that the pieces finally […]

If the rockabilly scene in Halifax could be likened to a growing baby, the three men in The Rockin’ Apostles are the ones to rear it. When veteran player Carey Beck moved to Halifax after years doing rockabilly on the road, he found two like-minded souls in Fabian O’Brien and Craig Hamlin. The three began […]