In honour of Henry Rollins’ Rebecca Cohn spoken-word show today, here’s one of my favorite interviews, where he gets all pissy with our national treasure.
Alison Lang
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Burn One Down TONIGHT!
gggggggggrrrrrr The hardworking grindcore outfit Burnt Church will be erupting this Friday at Gus’ Pub with their debut self-titled EP. The band was originally a two-piece; guitarist/vocalist Mike Parks joined up with Thy Flesh Consumed drummer Gerald Smith last March in the basement of a Fairview jam space. When bassist Tery Morrison of Fredericton’s Hard […]
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Ani makes it up to us
she’s no longer out of range! hooray! Well, here’s a nice bit of news on a sunny Friday for ya’ll: Ani DiFranco will be coming Halifax way after all. As you may recall, she cancelled her In the Dead of Winter date in January due to feeling less than righteous. But she’s rescheduled for November […]
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No more LOLs for L.M.F.A.O
Party-rap crew L.M.F.A.O. has cancelled their April 14th show at the Halifax Forum. Tickets can be refunded wherever you bought them.
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Five things you should know about Michael Bolton
Five things you should know about Michael Bolton 1. His metal band Blackjack (!) once toured with Ozzy Osbourne. Aaah! 2. His famous mane (now shorn, sob!) once rippled with the power of 1,000 Tritons. 3. Yes, he was engaged to the blonde Desperate Housewife, but did you know he also recorded a song with […]
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Take Your Sweetie for some hot Rock Lobster Action
A number of reliable-to-semi-drunken sources have informed me that tickets for the B-52’s March 19 and 20 gig are being sold as 2 for 1. So $70 will slide you and your dancing partner nicely into the Love Shack…..ugh, that sounded so gross. Tickets are at ticketatlantic.com.
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Happy Green Dorkface Day
Since I’m at work and can’t drink, I thought I’d share a little ditty that’s giving me a dance party at my desk. In fact, it’s making me go Gaga. May I present the Pomplamoose cover of the Lady Gaga/Beyonce ditty, Telephone. Complete with skinny man dancing! I love Gaga, I love cutesy dorks, I […]
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Pharoahe Monch Comes to the Paragon
When I was but a wee squirt back in the summer of ’99, I remember my wannabe-tough-guy little brother playing “Simon Says” from his basement hovel while I snuck around outside hiding bottles of Mike’s Hard Lemonade in the bushes so I could pick them up later. I got caught and to this day I […]
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Carey Beck Walks With a Swagger
just chilling throwing dice in the alley Talking to Carey Beck, you feel a little bit like you’re being transported back through time—-a time when men slicked their hair back, held doors open for ladies, and wandered from city to city with their guitar as their only constant companion. All these things sound like cliches until you realize that Beck has actually lived them. “I’ve been spinning my wheels for a long time,” he admits over the phone on a Sunday afternoon. Beck grew up in Rexton, New Brunswick. His family were the “town musicians”—-father Butch played with Beck’s uncles
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Zappa Does Zappa
flowing locks nonwithstanding You might be surprised to learn Dweezil Zappa wears many hats. In addition to sharing late father Frank Zappa’s grandiose musical visions (Wikipedia says he’s currently working on a 75-minute guitar solo epic featuring every major living guitarist, which sounds either totally amazing or absolutely wretched) ol’ Dweez has made cameo appearances […]
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Obey Convention IV Line-up Announced
Oh, May is such a lovely month—-not only due to the birdies chirping and the bees and flowers fornicating, but because it’s rounded out by the annual Obey Convention, Divorce Records’ feast of wild music and art. This year’s lineup features some treats, including Sue Carter Flinn fave Slim Twig who boasts a spooky Lux […]