The Krasnogorsk is a Soviet movie camera and a suburb of Moscow, but Halifax’s Krasnogorsk can be found playing on the number seven bus, in trees, on the Common or on tall ships. Violinist Jacques Mindreau interrupted baritone ukulele player Corey Hinchey’s interview with a potential roommate last fall; he “started playing music with him, […]
Laura Kenins
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Electro Chiac Therapie: brutal acadian punk
“We thought, ‘Let’s do all sex lyrics, but we’ll do them in French so nobody knows what we’re talking about,’” says Lindsay of ECT. Two-thirds Acadian, the threesome (by stage names Lindsay Sue, Mimi Ostie and Fritzi LeBaron) sing in chiac, known as an English-tinged “brutalization” of Acadian French. They get audiences dancing by playing […]
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Malajube’s third
Malajube’s third album starts off with mystic “Moonlight Sonata”-like keyboards on “Ursuline,” a seven-minute epic about the historic Quebecois order of nuns. Labyrinthes quickly delves into a miasma of dark religious references, positioned against a background of dreamy, ethereal pop music. Think spiritual labyrinths rather than David Bowie; actually, think both cathedrals and David Bowie. […]
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Sweetheart Sebastian
Nothing beats French punk, or to quote their website, “new wave punk français.” I was sold from the first note of this Quebecois garage-rock band’s CD. Just under 25 minutes of hooky, jeans-and-t-shirts punk rock, the sludgy, lo-fi French vocals take a few listens to make out and then don’t require much more than an […]
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Obey Convention: Sunday night and wrap-up
The Crowd Control Sound and Art Fair rocked the afternoon at the North Street Church yesterday with a quick last-minute set from Tyvek, who were just as much fun playing for 15 minutes during the afternoon as they were Saturday night. Bloodhouse A strong roster of local acts filled the church Sunday night. Bloodhouse I […]
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Obey Convention: Friday, Khyber noise dance party
Cosmetics, Sex Negatives, Soaking Up Jagged, Roomdoom
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Obey Convention: Friday, North Street Church
D’arcy Gray, Lukas Pearse, Omon Ra, Gown, Totally Ripped, Noveller
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Tyvek wraps up the night at Obey
Detroit may have made the news recently for its dwindling auto industry, but the city’s future prospects may lie elsewhere. “I think the music scene has more of a future than the cars,” says Kevin Boyer, guitarist for Detroit’s Tyvek, who headline this year’s Obey Convention. The city has a rich musical tradition in genres […]
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Husband and Knife
KC Spidle hasn’t cheered up at all since last year’s An End LP—if anything he’s gotten bleaker—but that’s OK, as long as he keeps making music about it. Unearth your cassette player for this EP-on-a-tape. Spidle’s sparse, guarded vocals and guitar are now backed by Evan Cardwell on bass and percussion. The first two tracks, […]
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Sure Thing: Soaking Up Jagged
Sometimes life after art school just isn’t arty enough and that’s when you need to start a performance-art band. Soaking Up Jagged was formed in 1997 by NSCAD grads Mitchell Wiebe, Rebecca Young, Chad Jagoe and James Matthews. Wiebe, a musician and painter who seems to have about nine bands on the go these days, […]
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Obey Convention starts thursday
Divorce Records convenes over obedience, Grand Trine frees your psychic centres and interview with Tobias Rochman.
