Mr. Matt Good Matthew Good comes back to Halifax to promote his upcoming album, Vancouver (released October 6), with Mother Mother ($30/$35 doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:30pm, Cunard Centre, all ages with a licenced area). Tickets on sale tomorrow at 10am. Buy them in person at the United Bookstore, Greenlyph Computers, Alderney Landing, Halifax […]
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Atlantic Film Festival opening gala promises you Bubbles
Looking for something in between fancy and ridiculous to do tonight? I’d suggest the Atlantic Film Festival opening gala. I’m just going to pull the info directly from the press releases, because sometimes they say it best: “The Metro Centre will be turned into the city’s biggest celebration of the World Premiere of Trailer Park […]
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Full Halifax Pop Explosion schedule now online
Ladies, meet Barn Burner Why don’t you peep the heck out of the Halifax Pop Explosion full schedule? Who are you most excited for? I’m stoked to see Dog Day (with new drummer Rob Shedden from Beat Material and The Got To Get Got), Bike Rodeo with the Pack A.D. and The Memories Attack with […]
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CBC Radio 2 wants to immortalize your favourite place in song
William’s Lake: Another good option CBC Radio 2 wants to give your neighbourhood/favourite stoop/park bench the attention it so richly deserves. They are calling The Great Canadian Song Quest “an incredible cross-country playlist with 13 brand new, original songs for Canada’s playbook. Each artist will compose and record an original song inspired by the locations […]
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Yes, you can be Ms. or Mr. Maynard!
The “ultimate north end pageant” takes place this weekend on Maynard and Cornwallis Streets (outside of 5653 Cornwallis at 2:30pm), and promises to be a rager. The Ms. And Mr. Maynard pageant is hosted by the Radiator Collective and organized by Jenna Empey and Heather Rappard, and will crown two lucky folks who are brave and bold enough to strut their stuff and their weird talents in front of four impartial judges. The categories are as follows: evening wear, talent, a swimsuit portion, arm wrestling, beer chugging, trivia and a lightning dice round. The winners will be crowned later
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Dog Day 12″ pre order on now
Click here for all the info. Divorce Records have just announced a pre-order for the new Dog Day 12″ recorded by Rick White. It’s an edition of 400, so you can be one of the lucky few.
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Megadeth and Slayer come to Halifax
Slayer, will you marry me? HOLY SHIT!!!!!!! Starting saving your money now, on Monday, November 9 at 8pm at the Metro Centre the Canadian Carnage tour brings Megadeth and Slayer (with Machine Head and Suicide Silence) to Halifax, and into my waiting arms. Tickets on sale starting Friday, September 18 at 9am. Tickets $72 each
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Windom Earle, BA Johnston, The Gideons, Lovesinger and, oh, a giant thing of ribs
Chilly weather means nothing to Windom Earle with stomachs full of ribs Last year they gave out a ham, this year it’s ribs. After today’s exhausting Go North! shenanigans, power up with the promise of a heaping helping of protein with Meat Draw 2: Return of the Meat ($6, 10pm). Thinly veiled as a show […]
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Nova Scotia Music Week full list of nominees
Classified, I put my tooth through my lip that way. Nova Scotia Music Week has more big names for you to digest, so start chewing: Joel Plaskett, Classified, In-Flight Safety, Brian Borcherdt, Grand Dérangement, The Tom Fun Orchestra and Charlie A’Court will perform, in addition to the winners of the underage Yarmouth Exhibition Battle of the Bands The Holdup and Cape Breton fiddlers Dawn and Margie Beaton, Anna Ludlow, Colin Grant, Chrissy Crowley and Gillian Boucher. The complete listing of Music Nova Scotia music award nominees and categories are: Bell Aliant Entertainer of the Year — Public Vote Joel PlaskettClassifiedIn-Flight
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Herohill’s Bryan Acker enjoys all the luxuries of being a Polaris Prize jury member
Congrats are in order for Herohill’s Bryan Acker. Acker was asked to be on the Polaris Prize grand jury, so you should start sending him cookies and elaborate love poems now to get in his good graces. Just kidding, I’m sure he won’t take a bribe. “Bribes? Of course. I’ll even take brides from bands that weren’t nominated,” says Acker. “I prefer large sacks of money with a huge $ written on the outside, large jugs on moonshine with XXX written on the outside, but would settle for t-shirts and large thick slabs of vinyl.” The self-deprecating Acker blogs
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Kev Corbett gives a sneak peek at his new album
Don’t drop it! Kev Corbett’s new album, Son of a Rudderless Boat, was released informally at the Lunenburg Folk Fest on August 6, but if you weren’t one of the 1000 people present, you may be chomping at the bit to get your copy. Corbett is leaking the album “through Taz, CKDU, and outta-the-guitar case sales,” he says, before the official release sometime in late September, so you can get one now and feel like a super fan singing along at the release show. The album features cameo appearances from Old Man Luedecke, Don Brownrigg, Thom Swift, Christina Martin, Meaghan
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Vote for the winner of the Echo songwriting prize online
The SOCAN Echo songwriting prize has assembled a mini playlist of five songs they they have determined to be “some of the most innovative, creative and artistic songs created in the past year by independent songwriters in Canada.” Halifax hero Joel Plaskett made the list with “Through and Through and Through.” Have a listen at www.echoprize.ca, vote and know that a single mouse click can help a Canadian artist win a $5,000 cash prize. Productive!