The direwolves of rock in Elliot Brood are coming across the narrow sea to the Seahorse to play a show for you and the realm on Friday November 25 at the Seahorse. Support TBA. The cost is but a paltry 15 of your gold coins. Winter is coming, so don’t tarry. Saddle your horse and […]
Alison Lang
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Where To Play: The Pavilion
Death From Above 1979, Pavilion, 2005 After a summer closure, the Pavilion (5816 Cogswell) will re-open this Friday at 7pm with a show featuring Black Moor, We’re Doomed, Severance and BC’s Ninjaspy. A couple of years ago, the team of volunteers who run the legendary all-ages venue decided to start closing it down in summertime […]
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Free HPX Show: Stars, Plants & Animals
Stars The Halifax Pop Explosion has announced a free all-ages show with Stars, Plants & Animals, Carmen Townsend and Papermaps on Saturday October 22 beginning at 3pm in Grand Parade Square. Now you can save some of that concert money and spend it on tattoos, tequila and cheeseburgers. Thanks, HPX.
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Girl Talk Moves to the Forum
The Girl Talk frosh concert scheduled for this Thursday was originally supposed to be held at Alderney Landing, but it’s been moved to the Halifax Forum Multipurpose Room (2901 Windsor). So all you froshies can get nice and shweaty now. Doors are at 9pm and the show begins at 10pm. Facebook tells me Girl Talk […]
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Japandroids Come Back to Town
Leigh Righton Japandroids light my fire. Oh hai. In the afterglow of the Halifax Pop Explosion lineup announcement, we damn near forgot to mention that a band from the festival’s past is coming back to the city next week for a fun, hip pootie party. Japandroids return to Halifax for the first time since their […]
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Where To Play: Pro Skates
Chantal Routhier The Graboids at Proskates Skateboarding and good music go together like peas n’ carrots, and the people at Pro Skateboards and Snowboards (6451 Quinpool Road) are proving that the skate shop’s current space is an ideal spot for relaxed, entertaining all-ages shows. After the shop opened at its new location between Subway and […]
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Classified For All-Ages
Hey, Classified is headlining a pretty okay-sounding hip-hop show at the Forum on November 10. Namely, he’ll be joined by Royce da 5’9, who I have this weird unexplainable soft spot for, and Shad, who IS the best. Plus there’s TBAs.Also, it is all-ages, and willl be done before Beyond Scared Straight comes on. So […]
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Music Nova Scotia Award Nominations
The 2011 Music Nova Scotia Music and Industry Award nominees were announced today. Carmen Townsend and Jenn Grant have racked up five nominations each, including Entertainer of the Year and Female Artist of the Year. (We’re also quite pleased to see that Grant’s ridiculously sweet video for “Getcha Good” – featuring Maynard St and the […]
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Dog Day’s Chicken Dreams
In the new Dog Day video for “Mr. Freeze,”, directed by Andrew Hines and Mike Clattenburg, a chicken that might be named “Crumples” takes a nap in the backseat of a car and Seth Smith goes swimming with a shark. Does he survive, and what will be left of him? That freezing video lake looks […]
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Where To Play: 1313 Hollis
Jerry Granelli 1313 Hollis is a unique space in Halifax because its identity is so fluid. “Really, we’re just a rental space,” says Susan Hunter, who founded the spot in 2008 along with Jerry Granelli and John Siemens. It was originally set up to house Granelli’s Creative Music workshops and housed other JazzEast events. (The […]
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What’s on Harry Potter’s iPod
I do have one quibble with Hollywood’s Harry Potter: nobody listens to secular music. While I enjoy a sweeping, stolidly British orchestral score as much as the next person, it’s also an interesting exercise to imagine which local bands might suit the tastes of individual Harry Potter characters. I took my best crack at it, […]
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Bike Rodeo
Oh Bla Duh was released back in May, but truly burst open once summer hit. Opening song “MRA” is loaded with promise, pulsing out of your car speakers and into your brain, straight through your legs and out as you cannonball into the water. “Kool” has twangy, leaping guitars that lick at your consciousness like the […]