Jason McGerr doesn’t care that there’s a band practicing in the next room. He’s ready with his weapon of choice: his drums. “I’m sittin’ behind them right now, if you wanna compete,” he says. “Put me on speakerphone and we’ll see who’s louder.” McGerr is on the line from his Seattle studio, Two Sticks, where […]
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Running with River Water
“At the very beginning of the month,” says Josh Dean of this February, “I was waiting to pick up my fiancée. She got off in a couple hours, and in the meantime I wrote three songs and threw them on the internet. I didn’t post them under my name, and no one knew who it […]
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Disturbed drops into the Forum
photo Michael Montes Remember Disturbed? Relive your past on May 30 when the Chicago quartet rocks the Forum (nice to see shows there again!). Tix on sale Friday here and here.
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John Fogerty ahoy
Those of you waiting on the big concert announcement this week can re-commence worrying about this alleged storm: John Forgerty will be in town May 18. Make it an early father’s day present, unless you did that last year when Forgerty played with the Eagles in Moncton. Tix go live Saturday at the usual places.
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And did we mention…more wins?
That new president of theirs really is bridging the gap between our nations—despite the notable qualifier of being Canadian, three local dudes have picked up prizes in the 10th annual Great American Song Contest. David Myles snaked first place in the acoustic category for live clapganza/singalong “When it Comes My Turn.” Joel Plaskett was tops […]
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Nerd Army powers up
“I’m a pretty big video game junkie,” says James O’Toole, bassist for Nintendo soundtrack resurrectors Nerd Army. “I encouraged the guys to get into it and they liked how it was kind of challenging and bizarre. We started playing a few gigs and it snowballed from there.” That snowball picked up a self-titled 2008 record, […]
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More wins!
Why is this man smiling? Because his talents have made him $1,000US richer! (That’s $1,272.24CDN, at press time.) The winning week continues! First we’ll take you back to Canadian Music Week, where DJ Cosmo nabbed first place in the finals of a competition that crawled across 10 Canadian cities in a month. Judges included Kanye‘s […]
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Symphony NS’s new season
Owen Pallett stands by the water without a coat to get a feel for Halifax in October. Which is when he’ll be here to play with the Symphony. Here are some key shows from Symphony Nova Scotia‘s freshly launched 2009-10 season. The blessing/curse with knowing a whole year in advance is you find yourself saying […]
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Matt Mays wins an indie
photo Scott MacIntyre Canadian Music Week wrapped up yesterday in Toronto, and we’re sure the Sonic Entertainment Group had a time at The Indies, the annual awards ceremony/schmooze fest we’ve never been able to get into. Matt Mays and El Torpedo picked up Favourite Rock Artist, and Sonic mates hey rosetta nabbed Favourite Album for […]
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Priestess rocks the CoGro
Montreal rawk outfit Priestess—the press release calls them “Guitar Hero 3 rockers” which is probably not a band-sanctioned tag—will blow the coconuts out the grove on April 17. And on April 18, they’ll perform for the kids at The Pavilion (at 2pm!). Iron Giant opens. Tickets for both shows are on sale now here.
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George-Michael Bluth vs. the World
This week’s New York mag has a Q&A with actor Mark Webber who is currently in Toronto filming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which has two Halifax connections: “Scott Pilgrim” is a seminal Plumtree song (super-duper bonus fact: Singer-guitarist Carla Gillis once worked at The Coast. Collecting bills. Of course!) and the author of the […]
