Ease into the week with Sarah Denim‘s audio equivalent of an iced mango green tea, brand new single “We Are Always.” Cool, calm and organic-sounding, the track is a preview of Denim’s upcoming album, due for release in September, following up 2016’s gorgeous Left Side Trilogy EP. Produced by Sarah Denim, engineered by Evan Cox, […]
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Ceramics technician Doug Bamford says so long to NSCAD after 23 years
Doug Bamford, the WORKSOpens Monday, July 31 at 5:30pm Runs to August 5 Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street Retirement party to follow at 7pm at Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street Beloved NSCAD ceramics technician Doug Bamford is closing the chapter on 23 years at the college with a goodbye exhibition at the […]
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Eyelevel artistic director Katie Belcher moves on to Vancouver’s Access Gallery
Eyelevel‘s artistic director Katie Belcher is leaving the artist-run centre and relocating to Vancouver to become Access Gallery‘s newest director/curator in October. “It is difficult to leave after building my life here for fourteen years, but shifting to another coast feels reassuring somehow, and I have already been so welcomed by the community as the […]
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How busker Victor Rubilar got into the biz
“I never thought of being a performer. It had never been a dream, until it happened. At that point, I was 15, I couldn’t see myself doing anything else. And it’s been that way since. The first time I was in front of an audience was an event at my mother’s company. I got to […]
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A day in the life of a busker
Halifax Busker Festival August 2-7 Halifax waterfront buskers.ca Sharon Mahoney—AKA Sharon from Canada—is a busker in demand, on the road most of the year, and travelling the globe performing her street performance/comedy show. Sharon from Canada is a passive-aggressive, patriotic and apologetic character, who, throughout the course of the show, breaks down and turns into […]
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Halifax Pop Explosion announces more headliners and keynotes
Halifax Pop Explosion Music Festival & Conference celebrates a whopping 25 years this October 18-21 with headlining acts like Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Charlotte Day Wilson, Clairmont The Second, Cloud Nothings, Patrick Watson, Tasha The Amazon, Weaves and comedy headliner Wyatt Cenac, in addition to the previously announced Japandroids and Ria Mae. This year, […]
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Premiere: Municipality’s “Miles Away”
Basically un-Googleable band Municipality premieres a shining new track from upcoming debut album Any Word, out September 1 on Atlanta, Georgia’s Human Sounds Records. “It’s pretty poppy. We have a lot of our friends involved in some way or other, so to me it has a communal feel,” says Peter Fordham, who along with twin brother […]
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Start your engines: RuPaul’s Drag Race takes over Halifax
Between Halifax Pride events and clubCOUTURE’s July event, a whopping THREE RuPaul’s Drag Race favourites will be sashaying into town this month. Add in The Board Room Game Cafe’s (1256 Barrington) RuPaul’s Drag Race trivia sessions (Tuesday, July 25, 7pm/10pm) and you can be thoroughly gagging on the eleganza. Halleloo! Jesus truly IS a biscuit! […]
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Review: David R. Elliott, Strawberry Grass
If a Jeff Tweedy-type fronted White Fence, you’d have a good opener for David R. Elliott. Controversial opinion: On Strawberry Grass, I also hear everything I like about Steve Miller Band. Fight me, I don’t care. The psych-rock Ty Segall-ish guitar on songs like “Due Time”, “Letter To My Son” and “I’m Not Him” (note: […]
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High 5: DJ Fadzwa’s party starters
DJ Fadzwa, who’s been rocking dance floors since 2013, knows a great party song. The local DJ selects a diverse collection of Afro-house, dance, moohmbaton, dancehall and more that transcends borders and just provide a good time for those who just want to sweat it out. Performing at Halifax Pride’s outdoor DJ dance spectacle The […]
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Review: Shadow of Everest, Idle Hands
For a contemporary progressive metal band—Halifax’s Shadow of Everest list Tool, Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stone Age as bands they’ve been compared to—this debut full length has a surprisingly classic sound. The guitar tone—especially on title track “Idle Hands” and “Holding On”—could fit right in with Maiden or Metallica. But the song structures prove […]
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Watch: Jenn Grant’s “Sorry Doesn’t Know”
Jenn Grant channels a disco goddess/Earth, Wind and Fire fever dream in her latest video, “Sorry Doesn’t Know,” directed by producer Daniel Ledwell in Lake Echo. From the 2017 album Paradise, three Grants really aren’t nearly enough in my opinion, but I suppose I will live. You probably have heard this glittery track on CBC Radio 2 […]
