Cultural Festivals

Olenka Krakus says she writes more when she’s alone. So on this eastern tour with her Autumn Lovers, new songs might not come as easily as they did the last time she was in town when she wrote a one while walking through the north end. But that’s OK, the once literature student has a […]

The passion of flamenco dance and music is displayed in every pose, gesture and facial expression in the collection Seeking Duende: Halifax Flamenco. On the heels of the upcoming Atlantic Flamenco festival, photographers from across Nova Scotia sought to find the duende (soul) of their subjects with varying success. Each photographer takes a different stance […]

Dog Day w/Shotgun Jimmie, The Skeletones Four, Reversing Falls, Old and Weird Friday, October 21, Gus’ Pub, 9pm, $10 Friday’s Pigeon Row Showcase is going to be a doozy. To celebrate the fifth year of being a rootin’-tootin’ promotin’ machine, Pigeon Row gathered some of their favourites to make a very sweet lineup. If you […]

The release show of Rich Aucoin’s long-awaited We’re All Dying To Live is almost upon us, but there’s something else he’s been waiting nearly as long for. “I’ve had this bottle of pop in my fridge for like two years that I’ve been saving as a champagne sort of thing,” says Halifax’s effervescent king of […]

I like the way electro-dance pop outfit Born Gold does things. Learning that the flamboyant electronica act (formerly named Gobble Gobble) is heading to Halifax for this year’s Pop Explosion, I discover that the group is unwilling to do interviews and generally works with journalists by providing them poems and horoscopes. Kind of an unorthodox […]

Bloodhouse is a band that makes you feel good about humanity. Alex Mitchell, Brendan Neima and Gabe Wallot-Beale are three buddies more interested in hanging out together than getting uptight about the business of being a band like a bunch of nerds. They started playing together as a two-piece in a hall 20 minutes outside […]

Imagine if buddies, and BRAIDS members, Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Austin Tufts, Katie Lee and Taylor Smith never decided to move their butts to from Calgary to Montreal. Their Polaris shortlisted experimental pop record Native Speaker wouldn’t have been Native Speaker and, maybe, it wouldn’t have even been on that list. “When we realized that we had […]

One Hundred Dollars believes in storytelling. For the past five years, the Toronto band has relayed the tales of troubled souls, urban decay and social inequity with a rich and heartfelt alt-country sensibility. The mind behind these stories is lead singer-lyricist Simone Schmidt, who first began composing songs for the band with musician Ian Russell […]

DOG DAY w/Shotgun Jimmie, The Skeletones Four, Reversing Falls, Old and Weird Friday, October 21, Gus’ Pub, 9pm, $10 Friday’s Pigeon Row Showcase is going to be a doozy. To celebrate the fifth year of being a rootin’-tootin’ promotin’ machine, Pigeon Row gathered some of their favourites to make a very sweet lineup. If you […]