Wise Old IDOW Anticipated new Gottingen Street venue The Company House would appreciate your moral support this Tuesday. In preparation for their opening for the In The Dead of Winter Music Festival, The Company House must be approved for a liquor license. The hearing is being held at the Utility and Review Board (3rd Floor, […]
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All ages hardcore bonanza this Saturday
For those of you who like to sail on a sea of your peers: You’ll want to go to the super bodacious all-ages hardcore show at the Pavilion on January 24 (6:30pm with Last Laugh, Pest Control, CI, Megalodon, Stay Hungry and Shitkicker). Special guest DJ James Reid will be quoting The Wire and playing his best records in between the bands. This evening is also the launch of a brand new zine, Dealin With It, which will on sale at the show for five bucks. The zine will have interviews with all the bands playing the show, photos, an
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All ages Winter SEED Multi-Arts Coffee House sorts you out
Hey! Guess what? You live in a terrible ice-covered snow globe of a city and it gets dark at 1pm or something ridiculous and you set unrealistically high goals for your New Year’s resolutions (PS: No one has an all raw food diet except for Gwyneth Paltrow or Madonna or maybe a budgie) now you […]
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UK Subs submerge you in 1970s punk
English punks UK Subs are playing in Halifax for one night and one night only: Monday March 30. Tickets are $15 (contact plaguedogproductions@yahoo.ca). Rocking4Dollars is moving to Sunday that week, so don’t you worry about that. Some facts about the UK Subs: In the 1970s they recorded a Peel session for BBC1. They used to […]
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Show round-up!
For one reason or another, these shows are interesting: On February 13 see Kestrels at Coconut Grove with Quiet Parade and Murder She Wrote. It’s a pre-Valentine’s formal bash and 7” release for them Kestrels. It’s cheaper if you are dressed up right fancy, so haul out those dress clips. Black Moor forge new ground by playing at Hooters on February 13 with Broken Ohms. Expect lots of pitchers and mammaries. And maybe—-just maybe—-not a lot of ladies in the audience. Blindoldfreak (ex-NIN and Ladytron) is coming to perform at the Khyber on January 31 with Random Transfer, Fredric
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The Wax Museums
Denton, Texas’ Wax Museums’ self-titled record deals with a lot of the most pressing issues of the day: dogs, dishes, girls, ligaments. Released on Atlanta’s Douchemaster Records, none of the album’s 14 tracks clock in at more than two minutes, which is refreshing. Pretty sweet guitar tone too, for people who dig that sort of […]
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Music 2008: Full house
Two-thousand-eight: The Year of Unexpected Touring Bands. There was the influx of old-school hip-hop (Nas, KRS-One, ?uestlove, Naughty By Nature, Method Man, Redman and Raekwon) and oldsters that sold out in minutes (Neil Young, Elton John, Bob Dylan). The kids weren’t forgotten, either, with Deerhoof, dd/mm/yyyy, Summersonic, Antigonish’s mega coup with !!! and Battles coming […]
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The last picture show
Earlier this month, it was announced that MuchMusic would be cancelling two long-running programs: Going Coastal and The NewMusic. Halifax’s Going Coastal host Paul Brothers cites the economy as the reason for the cancellations, but for years now, the focus has moved farther and farther from fulfilling what one would expect from a niche show […]
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Torbert, Fine and Cameron
Jeff Torbert (guitar), Adam Fine (bass) and Doug Cameron (percussion) are T, F and C, respectively, in TFC, Halifax’s improvisational wonders. Not content with the regular bar scene, the band is branching out by playing the Neptune Studio Theatre on Monday, April 7 (8pm, $15). With guest performers Matt Myer (trumpet), Dave Christensen (sax) and […]
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Nas show
You guys can have your George Thorogood, your Leonard Cohen, your Bob Dylan and your Air Supply. Just last weekend I was talking with a friend (over a steak that was as thin as it was tasty) about how awesome it would be if Nas came to town. Lo and behold, this fucking wonderful announcement […]