Fiver w/Stewart Legere, Lydia Persaud, Brooklyn Doran Thursday, January 18, 7:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $20 adv/$25 door Simone Schmidt’s fascination with history began, like so many do, with a newspaper. Schmidt, who fronts the band The Highest Order and makes rootsy folk music under the name Fiver, says she had always found herself […]
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Witch Prophet’s real magic
Witch Prophet w/Reeny Smith, The State of Alaska, Nick Ferrio Friday, January 19, 9:30pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $15 adv/$20 door At the end of 2015, a song called “Architect of Heartbreak” began circulating online among underground hip-hop and R&B fans. The song, by an artist called Witch Prophet and featuring Seattle hip-hop […]
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The Weather Station’s different state of grace
The Weather Station w/Bernice Friday December 8, 7pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $20 Near the beginning of “You and I (On the Other Side of the World),” from her self-titled, fourth album as The Weather Station, Tamara Lindeman sings what could be taken as a distillation of her music: “I love because I see.” […]
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Mauno brings it all home
Mauno w/Jon McKiel, Juice Girls Thursday, November 23, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $10 Nick Everett doesn’t beat around the bush. The music he makes as a part of the band Mauno—with guitarist Scott Boudreau, bassist/vocalist Eliza Niemi and drummer Adam White—carries this same affects as his conversational style: Spry, thoughtful, quietly intellectual. […]
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Iskwé’s fight for the greater good
Iskwé w/Rococode and Arsoniste Friday, November 10, 9pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $8/$12 Iskwé, a genre-bending artist based in Hamilton, concerns herself less with how to describe her music and more with the kind of change her music can create. Pulling from trip hop, R&B and traditional folk music, her new album The Fight […]
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Lido Pimienta is lit
Lido Pimienta w/Charlotte Day Wilson, Ralph, Vogue Dots Thursday, October 19, 9:15pm The Marquee, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 Navigate the Industry or Die Trying Friday, October 20, 3:30pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road free If you’ve heard Lido Pimienta’s name recently, chances are it’s been in one of a handful […]
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Charlotte Day Wilson’s homecoming
Charlotte Day Wilson w/Lido Pimienta, Ralph, Vogue Dots Thursday, October 19, 9:15pm The Marquee, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 Charlotte Day Wilson’s voice is unlike any other in the country. She’s soulful and gentle, able to communicate just as much feeling through a quiet slope of blue notes as she is with an impassioned growl. Naturally, […]
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Yamantaka // Sonic Titan’s new approach
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan w/WHOOP-Szo, Geil, Inland Island Thursday, October 19, 10pm Gus’ Pub, 2601 Agricola Street A lot has changed since the “noh-wave” noise-rock collective Yamantaka // Sonic Titan last played Halifax in 2012. For one, the band’s lineup has shifted: The group went on hiatus after the departure of founding members Ruby Kato […]
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Weaves burst Wide Open
Weaves w/Twist Casper Skulls, Pony Friday, October 20, 6pm The Khyber, 1880 Hollis Street free w/Aquakultre & Big Budi Band, Kurt Inder, LUKA, Strongboy Friday, October 20, 8pm The Marquee, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 In their brief tenure as a band, Toronto art rockers Weaves have built a name for themselves by pulling apart and […]
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Review: Lido Pimienta at SappyFest 2017
SappyFest has always produced a sort of magic. But this year’s festival, which for the twelfth time reignited Sackville, New Brunswick with a weekend of music and palship and not-so-secret secrets, felt especially vital. Locals Kirsten Olivia and Aquakultre were both highlights—Olivia moved a packed Vogue Theatre to both laughter and tears, while Aqukultre was […]
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Review: Japanese Breakfast, Soft Sounds from Another Planet
Tegan and Sara w/Japanese Breakfast Thursday, July 27, 8pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $49.50 The title of Soft Sounds from Another Planet, Michelle Zauner’s second album under the Japanese Breakfast moniker, suggests a supernatural focus that doesn’t entirely capture her decidedly worldly concerns. Aside from the iridescent lead single “Machinist,” which sees Zauner […]
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Eyelevel Gallery’s Food for Thoughts talks about fatness
Geneviève Brideau & Parker Houghtaling, ARTFAT—Taking our fat bodies back from the clutches of semiotics Sunday, July 23, 2pm If you self-identify as QTBIPOC, POC and LGBTQ2SIA+, and want to sign up, email fun@eyelevelgallery.ca “It’s an artist talk, but it’s also an artist-listen,” says artist Parker Houghtaling, grasping at words to describe his latest project with […]