RAINE Our Lady Peace come to Halifax Sunday, March 7 at the Cunard Centre in order to re-create their second album, Clumsy, in it’s entirety, followed by a second set of other OLP songs. Their last album, Burn, Burn, was released earlier this year. I’m sure they’re going to play some songs off of that. […]
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Zunior’s A Peanuts Christmas: Excellent holiday party soundtrack
Zunior.com, online label/store perfect for those who love sweet, sweet indie pop, are releasing a holiday compilation album titled A Peanuts Christmas: The 2009 Zunior Holiday Album. It’s a song by song tribute to the Vince Guaraldi Trio‘s A Charlie Brown Christmas and 100% of this online-only album’s proceeds go to the Daily Bread Food […]
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Five questions with Stop Motion Massacre
Stop Motion Massacre: Beings of pure light Stop Motion Massacre play manic punk rock, that, in my personal experience, usually involves one of them taking off their instruments and rolling around on the stage. They have my vote for most compelling vocal performance in Halifax. See them play at Gus’ Pub on December 10 with […]
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DD/MM/YYYY play all ages show in Halifax Friday at Studio A Cafe
DD/MM/YYYY wind down a rather eventful year with an all ages show in Halifax on Friday, December 11 at the new Studio A Café on Quinpool Road (with Cold Warps and Windom Earle). The band toured extensively, released a split 7” with Child Bite and their acclaimed album Black Square. But it wasn’t all good […]
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Tribute to the Clash at the Paragon December 16
The album in question The Clash’s London Calling enjoys it’s 30th anniversary on December 14, and while that means we can no longer trust it, we can also enjoy a tribute show to the album at the Paragon on Wednesday, December 16. “I’ve been thinking about doing this show for the last five years,” says […]
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Tune into CKDU 88.1FM to win tickets to see Henry Rollins
You and a friend could be in that audience (or a reasonable facsimile) for $0! Henry Rollins wouldn’t want you to spend your hard-earned money on a ticket to his show March 19 at the Rebecca Cohn, especially not if you could win tickets instead.
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Old Man Luedecke at the Rebecca Cohn April 30
Old Man Luedecke transforms people. He has the power to unite the most diverse crowds and after his shows everyone calmly looks at each other and realizes that we aren’t so different after all, and maybe with a little love we can work it out, and so on and so forth. Experience this love of […]
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6th Annual JazzEast Gala Fundraiser for Music Education is in it’s blue period
Laila “Yowza” Biali Feeling blue? JazzEast brings the Laila Biali Trio back to Canada after recording and touring with (the one, the only) Sting overseas for An Evening In Blue: 6th Annual JazzEast Gala Fundraiser for Music Education (Sunday, December 6, The Lord Nelson Hotel Ballroom, 6pm, $125. A receipt will be issued for $60 […]
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Free music from Divorce Records to you
Run! Don’t walk! (To download the Mess Folk EP) Divorce: The label that keeps on giving! From their site: “Freewave is a new series of FREE digital EPs from DIVORCE. The albums are exclusive to the series and cost you $0 to download. Merry Xmas! These releases will only be available until the next round […]
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Evolve 11 dates announced: July 23, 24, 25 in Antigonish
Evolve Festival 2009 from Hemmings House Pictures on Vimeo. If you’re looking for a fun, laid back festival this July 23, 24 and 25 (as the video above, made by Hemmings House, can attest to) head to Antigonish to enjoy Evolve 11. And if you’re looking to play said festival, submissions are being collected now […]
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Steve Miller Band at the Halifax Metro Centre: Saturday, June 5
Steve Miller Band may not appear exactly as shown This has to be the best press release I’ve read in a while: “GET READY FOR THE STEVE MILLER BAND… ‘It’s just one of the best concerts I’ve seen in my life. It’s classic Steve Miller. The shades, the guitars, the riffs, the endless hits, some […]
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East Coast Music Association Announces 2010 Awards nominations
Joel Plaskett killed it with eight music nominations, In-Flight Safety, Classified snag six nominations each Artist and industry award nominations were announced today at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre for the 2010 East Coast Music Awards, Festival and Conference, to be held March 4-7 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The industry awards will be presented […]