Michael Kimber
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Hip-hop games
This year has featured the slow revival of Halifax’s historic hip-hop tradition, in a city that has known the likes of Skratch Bastid, Classified, Ghettosocks, Josh Martinez, Sixtoo and Buck 65. The problem is getting big often means leaving, leaving the scene to pick up the pieces. The DJ Olympics and Hopscotch Festival are going […]
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Boom Bap with a bang
In the golden days of the Khyber Club you would see Classified, NEP and Jesse Dangerously standing in the same huddle. Buck 65 would watch Skratch Bastid work the turntables while JoRun nodded his head in benediction, as Josh Martinez and EMC used their dreads as skipping ropes. The children of that golden era are […]
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The Caravan
Known for outlandish acoustic hip-hop covers of “Mama Said Knock You Out,” The Caravan has been silently gaining a cult following and is now putting its debut album, Emerald City, out on wax June 12 at the Seahorse—fronted by NSLC employee/potential Playgirl cover model Kyle Mckenna, with Freddie Prinze Jr. look-alike Mark Bachynski on the […]
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Fibre freedom
“Concerned business people in Halifax are talking about the need for skyscrapers to bring our city into the 21st century, but that’s old thinking,” says Michael Marshall. “We aren’t measured by our buildings but by the speed of our internet access.” Marshall, a director at Chebucto Community Net, says that while Halifax led the world […]
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Master M.O.P.
Ed: Too good to be true? First Art Garfunkel and now these guys. Tickets for Saturday’s cancelled M.O.P. show can be refunded at point of purchase. I didn’t expect to hear guns in the background or the sound of girls screaming orgiastically in a club when calling Billy Danze of M.O.P. at his home in […]
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Injunction filed** to stop Africville settlement
[**Correction, March 24, 2010: contrary to what was reported in this article, the Africville descendants have not filed an injunction, but rather have discussed doing so.] Not everyone was satisfied with mayor Peter Kelly’s apology to residents for the loss of Africville. “He said we lost everything,” says Denise Allen, organizer of an injunction to […]
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Live like Common people
“The consultation process is a joke,” says Katie, a 24-year-old student, lips quivering, eyes on the brink of tears. She announces that she is going to leave Halifax because the city doesn’t care about the desires of its populace. Halifax Regional Municipality makes her feel agentless. Peter Bigelow, manager of real property planning for HRM […]
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Talking about The Moonshine Ramblers
In a little house on Windsor Street lives a group of hardworking musicians, known as The Moonshine Ramblers. They struggle with the grind of making money in a city where many live-music venues have closed and a sense of community is essential. Since they moved in last year, the Ramblers have brought the community to […]
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Scare tactics: 3 concerts, 3 costumes
GWARw/Lamb of God, Job for a Cowboy</p> Thursday, October 29 at 8pm, Cunard Centre, 961 Marginal Road, $45 adv/$50 door, ticketpro.ca, sonicconcerts.com, 888-311-9090 “Some people see the glass as half-empty, some people see the glass as half-full, I see the glass as broken and being rammed up someone’s butt.” Such is the philosophy of GWAR’s […]
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Something Good
Oftentimes you forget what makes your life so good. Rap band Something Good is here to remind you with an album of beats from Focus Aside (real estate salesman Chandler Haliburton), emceed by Hali rap veterans Markit and Boy-Ill. The secret ingredient is former DJ Olympics champion Y-Rush, with cuts to bring us back to […]
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Super Shad
In an age where Paris Hilton wins her celebrity with poorly filmed pornography and you need a reality TV show to become a rock star, it is refreshing to meet a man whose art speaks for itself. To truly understand the greatness of Shad, come out to the Paragon on Thursday and watch as the […]