Stephanie Johns

CBC Radio 3 gave a nod to analog with their Best Record Store in Canada Searchlight competition (other Searchlight competitions to come will be best nightclub, guitar store, music magazine, you get the picture). Taz Records is Halifax’s only nominee for the country-wide competition, and you know you’d better show them some love. Voting has […]

Mothers, lock up your daughters—or outfit them in monastic robes. Following his March 10 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Leonard Cohen announced a return to the stage after 15 years. He’ll appear at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on May 12 and 13. People are going to lose […]

Officially available Tuesday, March 25 (or pre-order at divorcerecords.com or Lost & Found, 2383 Agricola, as only 98 copies were made) Crowd Control is a new zine/CD-R series from Divorce Records that matches up sound and visual artists from around the world. Each hand-numbered release consists of an 8.5” by 6.5” zine and a pro-pressed […]

Wowee! Aquarian band Dog Day is back from CMW and an Ontario/Quebec tour. The band’s playing March 14 at the Seahorse with Immaculate Machine and the Superfantastics.
 “It’s a snowy tour and our van is always wet inside,” says Seth Smith (vocals and guitar). “It’s a marsh. I just keep forgetting that winter touring is […]

The 8th annual Independent Music Awards were handed out March 8 in Toronto at Canadian Music Week.  Jenn Grant won the Galaxie Rising Stars Award from the CBC for her lovely Orchestra for the Moon and Classified won Favourite Urban Artist or Group of the Year. That’s exciting and I certainly don’t mean to play […]

Cancer Bats return to Halifax to play The Pavilion on Saturday, May 3, at 6:30pm. The Toronto band comes back to play with friends Black Lungs, A Textbook Tragedy and Iron Giant. Watch whose head you step on, OK? Related Stories

July looks to be action-packed as two heavily promoted dove-tailing and very popular festivals, The Atlantic Jazz Festival (July 11-19) and Evolve (July 18-20) now overlap. Fans of both face a decision. (If I was a fan I’d be pissed.)


Brent Randall & His Pinecones are taking off for a little while. The gang leaves this Thursday on a cross-country tour with BA Johnston to promote upcoming EP, Strange Love. The EP will precede the May release of Randall’s much-anticipated full-length, We Were Strangers in Paddington Green (Just Friends, doy). And, We Were Strangers will […]

Parisian metalin’ is like no other kind of metalin’. See for yourself Saturday, March 29, at the Pavilion where Four Question Marks, from the City of Lights, join Hands of Death and Trigger Effect—
both from Montreal—and locals Fistfight and Vulgus. Sunday, March 30, Four Question Marks play a bar show in Hell with Hands of […]

Genetic Angry are a crazy-good punk band from Truro and they’re making a rare appearance in Halifax to play a free show at CD Heaven on Saturday. Joining them is CI (who are also planning an upcoming tour for April), Eyesore, Envision and Cross. GA is promoting their soon-to-be-released, artwork-free, two-song 7” record (on Sewercide […]

Ryan Cook and Sunny Acres are fitting in yet another show in their very busy schedule to release their hotly anticipated CD, Hot Times (No Scene). With the help of Jon Mckiel, Quiet Parade and Grass Mountain Hobos, this Saturday at the Seahorse should turn into a country, death-metal party the likes of which Halifax […]

Who says you can’t rock on a Wednesday? The Medium Mood kick off their tour at Ginger’s Tavern on March 5 (with Play Guitar and The Establishment). Heading to Quebec and Ontario afterward, Andrew Gordon (bass, vocals) hopes to leave “ears bleeding.” A larger tour follows this summer (Germany and US, holla). Gordon, Adam Hartling […]