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Congratulations to the many, many Nova Scotia Music Week winners who showed Liverpool a good time last weekend. Joel Plaskett had to hire a sherpa to take home his varied awards: pop/rock artist/recording of the year; video of the year; group/recording of the year; SOCAN songwriter, album (Ashtray Rock) and entertainer of the year. Other […]

This Saturday, November 10, experience the best fall warm-up scenario known to humans: a heated bar, punk music and dancing (optional). The Riptides (Ottawa), The Guts (New Hampshire), The Hemingways and The Varsity Weirdos (Moncton) play at Gus’ Pub (10:30pm, $6). Described as “no-frills leather jacket, high-top, three-chord punk rock from guys that your girlfriend […]

Congrats to all the winners at the African Nova Scotian Music Awards, which powered through post-tropical pain-in-the-ass Noel on Saturday at Casino Nova Scotia, awarding Trobiz the ANSMA Artist of the Year award and Jordan Croucher the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award. Avoiding power outages should also be awarded, we think.

Despite sounding slightly nerve-racking (who will you sit beside?), the Music Nova Scotia Indie Bus sounds like a pretty great idea. Driving to Liverpool, for Nova Scotia Music Week, the bus will take a gang of interested parties for a day of learning. Check out such essential workshops such as “Collectives and DIY Record Labels: […]

Statues (from Sudbury, on Deranged Records) make their triumphant return to Halifax this Sunday, November 4. Sounding like a mixture of The Replacements, The Buzzcocks and ’80s power pop, Statues are generously giving Haligonians a few chances to fall in love and write their names on your binders in Wite-Out, with an all-ages show at […]

Your mission for this week: light a candle and send good reiki energy to both Rose Cousins and Jill Barber. Both of Halifax’s sweethearts have been nominated for Canadian Folk Music Awards, which will be presented on December 1. Cousins and Barber are up against Bruce Cockburn, who I think we all can agree, has […]

Popular consensus is that we wouldn’t have music without musicians and we wouldn’t have food without farmers, so this Saturday, November 3, Musicians For Farmers is going to create a perfect pairing of food and music. I picture the North Street Church as in a drawing from one of those Christian handouts, where they imagine […]

Fast Times, a new monthly series that promises to be the MuchPunch of all events, starts up this Thursday, October 25 at the Marquee Club (10pm, $5 advance at Krisp Clothing or $7 at the door). A night of mash-ups, bands and art; this month features Team Canada DJs (Montreal), Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful […]

Halloween is, hands down, the best holiday we have. I won’t stand for any argument here. The Marquee is capitalizing by hosting two masquerade balls. Gypsophilia play on Friday, October 26, and Hey Rosetta!, Down With The Butterfly, Tomcat Combat and The Jesuit hold it down on Saturday, October 27 (check ticketpro.com for both shows). […]

I’m sure most of you have thought you could do my job. Here’s a chance! (Note: Not my job specifically, but a job like mine.) The Sea Cucumber Revue is a new arts publication in Halifax, mostly focusing on visual arts, but they have an interest in all aspects of art and fun in Halifax, […]

C’mon play, in their own words, “real rock music—you know: dirty, loud, fast. All the stuff your parents warned you about—and it touches you in places that indie rock just can’t because it’s too busy trying to decide if it’s cool or not.” If you feel like getting touched in places that get neglected, Gus’ […]

Free shows are like a little present from a newborn angel, and this Friday, October 5, the aforementioned angel has given us all a special surprise in the form of Alexander Keith’s Birthday. It’s for ages 19 and over (because of the beer thing), and begins at 4pm. Take the afternoon off work and head […]