This is that time between the wind-down of summer and the gear-up for fall when most galleries don’t have openings as they switch between exhibition seasons. So we want to shine a light on some of the summer shows you need to catch before they close this week. The huge Aboriginal show Snapshot closes at […]
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Kim Harris says otherwise
“I released it digitally last year and I used it mainly like a demo,” says Kim Harris of her six-song folk debut She’d Say Otherwise. “I was living in Amherst and I never got the chance to have a release show.” Now that she’s back in the city, she’s rectifying that situation with an all-star […]
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Molly Rankin’s quiet ascension
Molly Rankin is a curious case. Though bred in Cape Breton— she’s the daughter of the late John Morris, a Rankin Rankin—and educated at Dalhousie, Rankin is considered by the fine people of Charlottetown to be theirs. It was there, in 2010, that she made a record called She with her boyfriend, ex-Two Hours Traffic guitarist […]
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The Queen of Versailles
Sometimes the universe just hands you a gift: When Lauren Greenfield begins filming the Siegels, David and Jacqueline (he’s a time share baron, she is his 30 years younger wife and mother of seven of his children), it’s because they’re constructing their own version of Versailles in Florida—90,000 square feet, the largest house in America. […]
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Celeste and Jesse Forever
Though of pure Hollywood lineage and opportunity, Rashida Jones has instead taken a cue from her Parks and Recreation castmate Amy Poehler and made her own work, co-writing and starring in this sharp romantic comedy. After a beautiful opening credits sequence of their relationship, we meet Celeste (Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg, restrained) a few […]
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The Nature of Christopher Wright
Eau Claire, Wisconsin is now known as “the place Bon Iver is from” but this folk trio has been in operation since before all of that business. Formed in 2004 by brothers Jon and Jason Sunde and Jesse Edgington, the trio plays pastoral folk in the vein of The Low Anthem and Fleet Foxes—you may […]
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High Fiver
[iamge-1] “A band’s like a nice functioning organism until it’s not and it kind of needs a break,” says Simone Schmidt, leader of Toronto alt-country outfit One Hundred Dollars, which is on hiatus. “A lot of times the market or something external dictates whether a band continues or keeps working, but you can’t let that […]
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$Rockin 4 Dollar$ turns 7
“As a resident drunk and sound tech I figured I could combine those two talents and join the team,” says Adrian Bruhm, who began spending his Monday nights hosting band battles at Reflections about five years ago. $Rockin’ 4 Dollar$—originally conceived by Craig Hamlin, who’s still involved, and Jon Epworth —launched its weekly open-mic-with-a-prize format back […]
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Instruments play again
Six weeks ago, Pigeon Row’s Select Series released How Did We Even Get Here?, a free digital compilation of local music of genres with “post” in front of them, including Kuato, VKNGS, Union of the Snake and two of the bands on this show, Force Field and Instruments. The rarely seen latter band’s contribution is […]
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Parks and recreation
The Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council’s 35th annual summer show is taking over Victoria Park this weekend. “In a time when the way that people are finding things they love is very different than 35 years ago,” says NSDCC’s program coordinator Julie Rosvall. “Thirty-five years ago you would have 100 exhibitors and 20,000 people would […]
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Campbell’s homecoming
“I am pretty sure the horse of my broken heart is dead, and I should stop beating it,” says Amy Campbell, laughing. Known for her very sad folk songs, solo and in Stumble, the Nova Scotia native got married in 2010, so one would suspect it was harder to conjure up the sadder moments on […]
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Mad Tricks
In Rolling Stone‘s summer tour round-up earlier this season, it was this band that said it would play anytime, anywhere, which is the logic behind, one guesses, using its break from a national Aerosmith tour to play Casino Nova Scotia. (The band made this declaration even after the stage collapsed beneath its members in Ottawa […]