Vision 2020 New Year’s Party feat. Kenni G, Aquasocks and more Halifax Music Co-op, 2170 Barrington Street, Tue, Dec 31, 9pm-2am, $20 When Kennedy Crossland went to a music festival for the first time—at Evolve, the club kid destination for an EDM slant on the festival experience—she expected to fall deeper in love with electronic […]
Morgan Mullin
Morgan was the Arts & Entertainment Editor at The Coast, where she wrote about everything from what to see and do around Halifax to profiles of the city’s creative class to larger cultural pieces. She started with The Coast in 2016.
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The 2020 New Year’s Eve planner
BIG TICKET EVENTS Fifty Shades of Grey NYE gala feat. Asia & NuGruv Head to the DoubleTree Hilton (101 Wyse Road, Dartmouth) for this event with the powerhouse vocals and good-time-giving setlist of Asia & NuGruv. Three DJs and good vibes keep the party goin’ late. 9pm-2:30am New Year’s Eve on the Grand Parade w/Famba, […]
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2019 Year in review
Dorian and the crane Even before it arrived in Halifax and knocked over that construction crane, Hurricane Dorian made a major visual impact. This was the Category 5 storm that stalled over the Bahamas for a day—huge and strong and ferocious on the weather map—killing at least 70 people. Dorian also lead to #SharpieGate, a […]
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The week in Nova Scotia film
It’s been a good week for movie-makers across the province, as two of the most hyped-about recent local productions—that’d be Stage Mother and Spinster—debuted on the film fest circuit this week. Stage Mother, Thom Fitzgerlad’s latest, follows a religious choir member as she inherits a drag club from her estranged son. It had its world […]
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Behind the setlist with Matt Mays
When Matt Mays takes the stage on November 16 for the final show of his Howl At The Night Tour—which saw his eight-piece band play 19 Canadian dates in less than a month—he spends a second that isn’t long, but is very deep, in silence. With his back to the audience, ensconced in a cone […]
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Kids Losing Sleep are gaining hits
Kids Losing Sleep EP release show w/Sundae Girl, Social Smokers Club Dec 13 , The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, 10pm-2am, $12 The four BFFs in Kids Losing Sleep wanna set the record straight: Though they stan Katy Perry and were raised on bands like Sum 41, they’re not just another pop-punk band. “We’re emo […]
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Who Let the Dogs Out now available on iTunes
At this year’s FIN Atlantic International Film Festival, a deep dive into the backstory of The Baha Men‘s biggest hit debuted. Who Let the Dogs Out, as we reported back in September, traces the titular tune from Trinidad to Texas: “For some inexplicable reason, and god bless him for it, narrator Ben Sisto threw himself […]
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Five questions I wish I could ask Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee—best known for making Canada cool in the 1970s as he melted faces in the prog-rock band Rush—spent most of 2019 *not* behind the bass but behind a desk, writing The Big Beautiful Book of Bass. The hardcover Globe & Mail bestseller—which’ll set you back $103.04 for a signed copy—is billed as a mix of […]
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Where I record: Ashley Pringle’s Arrangements
Who he is Ashley Pringle has been kicking around the Halifax music scene for years: You might know his guitar noodling in the heavy-psychedelic band, Nor, or remember his face-melting prog-metal band MVMNTS—and then there was his stint in the two-piece prog-punk band Slashy that had a fan in The Super Friendz’ Charles Austin (“he […]
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50+ holiday evenings to unwrap
Thusday, December 5 Brunch with Santa and Mrs. Claus Bacon and the big man! Get a photo as you feast. 10am-1pm, 3 Dakin Drive Friday, December 6 Christmas Glow Glow is a seasonal community festival, bringing together people you love to stroll, laugh and play under the twinkle of half a million lights. 3-5pm, Dec […]
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Ben Rogers’ Wildfire burns bright
The album art for Ben Rogers’ latest LP, Wildfire, testifies to the record’s origin story as it depicts a piano engulfed in flame. The fire gulps air, spreading out of the frame, white hot against a cool blue background. “After the last record, I just felt a natural shift, just steered away from that genre,” […]
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The wonder of Whoop-Szo
Whoop-Szo w/Motherhood, Valerie Nov 28 The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street 9pm-midnight $10 Adam Sturgeon doesn’t know, exactly, what it means to be a warrior. His grungy band Whoop-Szo—which sounds as if a folky Dave Grohl decided to make shoegaze-streaked metal—wrestles with this question throughout the 10-track effort Warrior Down, but it’s still murky: “I […]