Gala presentation: Hopeless Romantic Cineplex Park Lane Mall, 6:30pm 5657 Spring Garden Road Saturday, September 15 $22.50 finfestival.ca How might you make a romantic comedy that is funny and honest without being reductive about our experience of love? That’s the guiding question behind Hopeless Romantic, an ambitious locally-made film premiering this week at the Atlantic […]
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Fall for Hopeless Romantic
Gala presentation: Hopeless Romantic Cineplex Park Lane Mall, 6:30pm 5657 Spring Garden Road Saturday, September 15 $22.50 finfestival.ca How might you make a romantic comedy that is funny and honest without being reductive about our experience of love? That’s the guiding question behind Hopeless Romantic, an ambitious locally-made film premiering this week at the Atlantic […]
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Dog Day’s not over yet
Dog Day w/Jon Samuel Saturday, August 25, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $15 When Dog Day makes its return to the Seahorse this Saturday, expect it to feel like “slipping into an old pair of shoes.” The lauded Halifax group has been making waves with tuneful, gloomy rock ‘n’ roll since its debut […]
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Nap Eyes’ subjective science
Nap Eyes w/Surveillance & MTCHCRFT Thursday, August 9, 8pm The Seahorse, 2037 Gottingen Street, $10 Near the end of “Roses,” the rollicking centrepiece of Nap Eyes’ dense third album I’m Bad Now, Nigel Chapman offers one of his most surprisingly simple lyrics. Earlier, he remarks that “people look for their reflections everywhere/in everyone”—something that resonates […]
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FOONYAP’s vessel for feeling
FOONYAP w/BUDI and Special Costello Saturday, July 21, 9pm (Artist talk 2-4pm) Khyber Centre for the Arts 1880 Hollis Street $10 Calgary artist FOONYAP has been surrounded by music since her childhood, but it wasn’t until she discovered the world of indie-rock that she felt comfortable using it to express herself. FOONYAP grew up studying […]
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Jazz Fest: Charlotte Day Wilson
Charlotte Day Wilson w/Daniel Caesar Sunday, July 15, 8:30pm Waterfront Stage $32-$38 Charlotte Day Wilson wants you to feel something—but she also acknowledges just how hard it can be to feel anything at all. The self-made R&B singer and producer—now back in her native Toronto after a stint living, studying and fronting local smooth-talkers The […]
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Jazz Fest: Jeri Brown
Jeri Brown Friday, July 13, 11:15pm The Carleton $20 Jeri Brown’s singing is effortless. But make no mistake: Her position as one of jazz music’s most acclaimed contemporary vocalists is the product of decades of hard work. “It is essential that the story is clear,” says Brown, who seems to hold her story with a […]
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Jazz Fest: Pantayo
“It kinda felt like cultural knowledge FOMO.” That’s how Kat Estacio explains the feeling that became Toronto gong-punk ensemble Pantayo. The group—an all-women collective of immigrant and second-generation Filipinos—grew out of a desire to form a deeper connection with their culture and identities. And so together they dove into the history and sheet music of […]
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Going with Partner’s flow
Partner w/No, It’s Fine., Century Egg Thursday, June 21, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $17.50 adv/$25 door About two-thirds of the way into In Search of Lost Time, the long-awaited debut album from Windsor, ON-via-Sackville, NB rock band Partner, a voice solemnly offers a proclamation about the state of music and its listeners: […]
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Put your hands together for these 17 summer concerts
JUNE 21 Partner w/Century Egg and No, It’s Fine. Sackville’s finest stoner rock ex-pats return to the east coast for what’ll surely be one of the sweatiest gigs of the summer—and one of the best, with support from the mathy No, It’s Fine and alt-popsters Century Egg. The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, 8pm, $17.50 […]
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OBEY XI: Yohvn Blvck
Yohvn Blvck w/DIáSPORA Saturday, May 27, 2pm Seven Bays Bouldering, 2019 Gottingen Street free, all ages “Growing up in Antigua, there was never a place for anyone to express themselves in that shared manner. If anything, the closest thing to that was church—and that was a no,” says Edwin Hull with a laugh. “So I […]
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OBEY XI: Science Project
Science Project Thursday, May 24, 10pm Garrison Brewery, 1149 Marginal Road $10 Cody Googoo has been prolific in the Halifax punk and noise scene for the past number of years, playing in countless bands including Unreal Thought and young legends Booji Boys. The music he’s recently made as Science Project, however, carries a more insular […]