In 1936, after returning from a sojourn in France, Josephine Baker starred in the prestigious Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. Among the reviewers was a New York Times critic who called her “a negro wench.” After her role in the production finished, Baker returned to France within a year and became one of its most beloved […]
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Glory Glory Man United
Glory Glory Man UnitedFriends of the Seen (From Here to There Records)In possession of the best moniker on the Halifax music scene, Glory Glory Man United release their debut EP, Friends of the Seen. This may be off-base, but actually, it approximates what would happen if Q and Not U, circa 1999, covered Thrush Hermit’s […]
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First Words
First WordsCheaters(Dead Beats Entertainment)First Words is an east coast hip-hop revelation featuring Fredericton MCs Sean One, Above, DJ STV and Halifax producer JoRun Bombay. The output–as is usually the case when JoRun is producing–is clever and creative, always showcasing the strengths of the individual MCs. Seemingly functioning like a modern-day Atlantic Canadian Native Tongues, their […]
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Evolve Music Festival
Despite 2008 Halifax appearances by C+C Music Factory, The Weakerthans, Holly Cole and David Cassidy, it might just end up being Antigonish that plays host to the best musical talent to come to this province during the International Year of Planet Earth. Now in its ninth year, Antigonish’s eco-friendly Evolve Music Festival has moved beyond […]
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Cross Country
At first glance,Cross appears to be a band that buys t-shirts for the sole purpose of tearing the sleeves off. Made up of members of some of the best punk and hardcore bands the city has produced over the last three years, Cross features Sam Wight and Alastair MacDonald on bass, Ben Radford on drums, […]
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Coast New Music Issue 2008
Orquesta Típica ImperialWith e-stringz, Friday, July 11 at the Festival Tent, 8pm, $25-$30 Orquestra Tipica Imperial Kicking off this year’s Atlantic Jazz Festival is Argentina’s not-to-be-missed Orquesta Típica Imperial. In much the same fashion that local favourites Gypsophilia reinvigorated Django-jazz from a somewhat caricatured, moribund-stylized musical form into something more earthy, soulful and thrilling, this […]
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15 years: Hip-hop, con’t.
Any discussion of hip-hop in Halifax has to begin and end with Jorun Bombay. A legendary Halifax hip-hop figure, he’s worked as a DJ, MC and producer on 60-plus albums in the past 15 years. Haltown Projex was a group of MCs and DJs that existed in Halifax from 1992 until 1998. Spearheaded by Jorun […]
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15 years: Hip-hop
Any discussion of hip-hop in Halifax has to begin and end with Jorun Bombay. A legendary Halifax hip-hop figure, he’s worked as a DJ, MC and producer on 60-plus albums in the past 15 years. Haltown Projex was a group of MCs and DJs that existed in Halifax from 1992 until 1998. Spearheaded by Jorun […]
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Nadja’s heavy work
When Nadja arrive in Halifax on Friday, May 23 (with Vancouver’s Shearing Pinx) as part of the Obey Convention music festival, it will mark the first time the lauded and well-travelled Toronto ambient doom-noise duo has appeared in this city. Made up of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff, Nadja started off as Baker’s solo studio […]
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Shelter with Thieves
[image-4]Published May 22, 2008.Shelter with ThievesA Dark Chapter in the Human Experiment(I Thought You Were Dead Music)Like an Atlantic-Canadian version of seminal post-hardcore act Quicks and, Shelter with Thieves incorporate elements of dissonance and melody on their latest release, A Dark Chapter in the Human Experiment. With imagery and lyrics that evoke dystopian modernity, bleak […]
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Clorox Girls
Clorox GirlsJ’aime Les FillesBYOThe Pacific Northwest punk scene is known for The Exploding Hearts, The Briefs and Clorox Girls and BYO is known for releasing a lot of inessential punk records over the last 20 years. Portland wins (thankfully) out as the Clorox Girls deliver another catchy collection of brilliant harmonies and slightly creepy songs […]
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Shelter With Thieves, Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees, Great Plains, My Dog Ego, Pamela Underwater, DJ Tony Haze
Clearly, The Attic isn’t the first—and it’s certainly not the last—Halifax venue to shut down. The Halifax music scene is cyclical in nature and it’s quite possible that The Attic, an important part of that scene for almost a decade, became a casualty of one of its lulls.It was during one of those lulls that […]
