Shawn Colvin In the Dead of Winter, the yearly festival celebrating acoustic musicians, has announced its first performer: the Grammy-award winning Shawn Colvin. If you came of age in the ’90s, chances are you probably know her song “Sunny Came Home.” During a recent Larry Sanders binge, I realized that Colvin is also pretty funny. […]
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Where to Play: Michael’s
DOGKISSER.BLOGSPOT.COM Michael’s Bar and Grill Many of us know Michael’s (6100 Young St) as a karaoke spot where we can comfortably mutilate “I Wanna Come Over” and “Semi-Charmed Life” and then ooze home, redolent of tequila sunrises and vague embarrassment. Soon, you’ll be able to embarrass yourselves in front of actual live bands, as the […]
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Prince Is Coming!
Movember this. Wednesday November 30 will henceforth be known as Prince Day. His Symbolic Freakness is coming to Halifax to play the Metro Centre, solve all your worldly problems and make it rain. Purple rain, that is! I’m exhausted! Get here already you short little lightning bolt of sexgrease! Welcome 2 Canada you fucking sexy […]
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Tupperware Remix Party Will Crash Your Party
Tupperware Remix Party Those loveable neon maniacs in Tupperware Remix Party just posted on their Facebook that they’ll be hitting the town tonight in their “mobile fun unit”, freaking you out and making you dance at various Halloween and non-Halloween-related events. I have a feeling they might show up at Reflections tonight? But who knows? […]
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A Halloween Playlist For You
siouxie and the banshees: goth talk Loukas Crowther is the Coast’s production guru. Hi Loukas. When he’s not making the paper sexy, Loukas is also a DJ (you can see him many Saturday nights at Tribeca as Loukas Stilldrunk) and he’s rather good at it. For the second year in a row he’s put together […]
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Five Probing Questions with Sonic Avenues
Sonic Avenues Montreal punkers Sonic Avenues make bright, effervescent, irresistible power pop. Like The Undertones or Jay Reatard, their songs balance sweet melodies with a plaintive streak that will send shivers down your spine. Their split 7” with the Steve Adamyk Band is current available on P-Trash Records and they have a full-length on Portland’s […]
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Rich Aucoin Returns
oh hai rich Rich Aucoin will be finishing off a cross-Canada tour here in Halifax on Saturday November 26 at 10pm. Since his show-stopping release party at St. Matt’s last week for HPX, Rich has been on the road in support of his album We’re All Dying To Live, which features over 500 musicians from […]
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HPX Saturday
i diggit Woke up on Saturday morning under a blanket of cat body and felt the week weighing down my bones. I walked through my apartment and it looked like a bomb had gone off. We rapidly fled the house to go to the CKDU brunch at Gus’. The burritos looked delicious but I got […]
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HPX Friday
This blog is coming to you, live n direct, from me lying supine on a futon. What a doozer of a couple of days folks. I’m so happy and tired and hung over and I can’t believe it’s over already. Lots to cover so let’s get to it. FRIDAY After a slow-ish start to the […]
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HPX 2011: Thursday
I’m exhausted today and will try to keep it short. Went to a new Russian place for breakfast and someone from my party ordered borscht for breakfast, and I found this totally disgusting. And oh hey look, it’s Quaker Parents and Bloodhouse at the Coast HPX party. If you missed this, you missed free beers […]
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HPX 2011: Wednesday
After watching what is singlehandedly the most disgusting Kenny vs. Spenny episode of all time, we took off, still gagging, to CKDU for the first free lobby show of the year featuring the Weekend Dads and Cold Warps. The bands calmed my nausea and provided a welcome kick in the face. Cold Warps tried a […]
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Daily Picks: Thursday
DAN MANGAN w/The Crackling, The Daredevil Christopher Wright Thursday, October 20, St. Matthew’s United Church, $20/$25, 7:30pm People talk about record ‘cycle,’” says Vancouver’s Dan Mangan in a tone that suggests he finds the concept a bit odd. “There’s this idea that you tour your album, then lay low for a little while and take […]