The four-piece ambient, improvised music group New Hermitage has been melting brains and building mazes of sound since 2017. The basis of what unfolds before your ears and eyes onstage is a Ray Bradbury-sounding experiment, described in the band’s press release as follows: “New Hermitage imagines a future in which pollution has decimated the population of […]
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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Sean Michaels Wagers double or nothing
Does art imitate life or does life chase art down the road, copying its particular posture? For author Sean Michaels, it’s always been a bit of both. “I’d been chewing on questions of luck and the meaning of life for a long time—anyone who does creative things and wants people to look at it, anyone […]
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Love the way we list
Well hello there. You’re a person-about-town who’s working on a play/concert/one-human-show that’s not so much confessional as it is semi-autobiographical, really, and if you love Fleabag you’ll be totally into it. Or maybe you’re home on your couch and wondering where to see a play or concert or just do something other than re-watch Fleabag […]
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Celebrate a winning weekend with these Sure Things
Have simply the best weekend with Sure Things like the Best of Halifax Ball, Rebecca Thomas’s symphony debut, a tribute to icon Portia White and more. Romeo & Juliet: a drink-along Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday A quartet of performers work through the ultimate boy-meets-girl play, all while imbibing. “Will they drink themselves into an oblivion […]
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Paper Beat Scissors shakes again
When Tim Crabtree—the brains and diary entries behind the vulnerable chamber folk of Paper Beat Scissors—pulled through the Cobequid Pass yesterday, “it felt like a homecoming,” he says, laughing into the phone as he talks about the feeling that swept over him as he stretched his legs at the rest-stop that marks the halfway point […]
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Ten questions with Alestorm
Sailing the high seas of heavy metal since the mid-2000s, the members of Scottish band Alestorm wanna melt your face with Metallica-inspired guitars while having their tongues firmly planted in their cheeks. Probably the biggest pirate metal band out there—something the five-piece leans into with album titles like Captain Morgan’s Revenge and song titles like […]
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Stop, pop and roll: Our favourite moments of Halifax Pop Explosion 2019
To call Halifax Pop Explosion a varied fest feels obvious: The venerable event has been celebrating the best of local, national and international acts for more than two decades. A peep at this year’s schedule alone—which saw bluegrass-y concerts in churches slotted next to sweeping emo showcases on the city’s biggest stages—belies both the breadth […]
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Sure Things, Halloweekend edition
So, you’re a last-minute Halloween lover and you’re trying to decide where to debut your costume. We’ve got your back with a roundup of the top parties in town, both tonight and over the weekend. Trick or treat on! A night of comedy at the silent movies w/organist Shawn Whynot Saturday A screening of the […]
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BACKXWASH won’t back off
BACKXWASH w/Janette King Thu Oct 24, 8:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street free A shanti Mutinta—AKA the rapper BACKXWASH—fills the phone line with incandescent laugher, ready to soften the moment and appreciate a joke. She fills her songs with audio snippets from Mean Girls and Britney Spears samples, a cotton candy cloud foundation for infectious […]
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Ten questions with Dave Sampson
Folk music strained through an indie-pop sieve is the signature of Nova Scotia’s own Dave Sampson, who arrives at The Marquee on Oct 19 to celebrate his new album, All Types of Ways, with a hometown(-ish) show. Sampson was born in Cape Breton and spent time in Nashville as he cut All Types of Ways, […]
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Give thanks for the long weekend with these Sure Things
From Trixie Mattel’s Halifax arrival to Carbon Arc’s latest flick, here’s the can’t-miss turkey weekend fun to add to your calendar. Nonna’s very own: A comedy showcase with Marc-Anthony Sinagoga Thursday Up-and-coming comic Marc-Anthony Sinagoga makes you LOL hard enough to fuggetabout your worries at the Bus Stop Theatre. more deets Trixie Mattel: Skinny Legend […]