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Hi-octane rockers The Maynards are hoping Canadians are going to pick them up all over the place now that 2005’s Break Out the Make Out has landed a distribution deal with Scratch Records. The band’s second full-length will also be available internationally via the label’s website. “We’d gotten in touch with Scratch back when we […]

The Juno nominees were announced on February 15, determining the calibre of talent we can expect to see in town in six weeks. Adult contemporary stars Michael Buble and Diana Krall have five nominations each, with other multiple nominees including Arcade Fire, Neil Young, Nickelback and, ratcheting up the shriek quotient come awards night, Kalan […]

As of press time, word was the city will lease The Khyber Club space to the Khyber Arts Society until February 19 after all, as previously agreed. What will happen after that date is still up in the air. Stay tuned. Search them What began as the fusion of musical talents between three New Brunswick […]

Haligonians have been flooded with concert-going opportunities over the past week, providing us with lots of music-related talk other than Coldplay On the local hip-hop front is a new record from scene veteran DJ IV, the second volume in his Exit O series. He’ll release it February 3 at The Warehouse with appearances from Microphone […]

Having returned from a short three-date Maritimes stint with friends Wintersleep, rock group Folds of Policy are heading back to the studio with the intentions of finishing work on their sophomore effort, tentatively titled Trouble on the Wall. Bassist Charlie Coolen says while there are no huge, conscious format changes from Stay in Your Homes’ […]

After a single year of promoting under the clever spoof label NXNE, the North by North End festival, featuring local bands playing in north end Halifax venues, will be legally forced to modify its marketing strategy for 2006. The huge North by Northeast festival — held annually in Toronto — smacked the organizers of the […]

Discouraged by bands with similar — or identical — names and anxious to put a year of hardship behind them, The Porcelain Gods aspire to freshness in 2006 with the same songs and a new brand. Halifax’s reigning kings of power-pop will henceforth be known as Their Majesties. “It conjures images of grandeur, pomp and […]

The latest product of Darmouth’s consequential alt-country tradition are the kind of like-minded friends who perpetually have their instruments in hand. Whether the members of The Grass are sitting in their living room or around the kitchen table, there is rarely a moment of dead air in their Vernon Street flat. Strangers and acquaintances alike […]

While most bands are occupied with last-minute holiday shopping, on top of it all, the Danny Mainstreet Band will squeeze in a last-minute show December 23 at The Attic. Frontman Ben Hughes says the band is anxious to help Halifax relieve any holiday stress it may have. Just don’t expect Santa Claus. “I suppose if […]

Oshawa, Ontario’s Cuff the Duke have added some Dartmouth flavour to their line-up in the form of ex-Guthrie Dale Murray. The alt-country band released a statement on their website on November 29 announcing their parting of ways with founding member Jeff Peers. “The deal is that I am taking over guitar, keyboard, pedal steel and […]

The first snowfall of the season and the Urban Surf Kings’ holiday bash are telling signs the holiday season is upon us. The former has already happened, and the latter’s 10th annual is on December 9 at the Khyber. It’s a time of year the band gets especially excited about. “It’s our once a year […]