It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. Imagine if Tegan and Sara left the land of slick pop, […]
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The best albums of 2022: Aquakultre’s Don’t Trip
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. First, there’s the irresistible boom-bap of the backbeat tapping at your […]
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The best albums of 2022: Willie Stratton’s Drugstore Dreamin’
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. I’m not alone in my love of Drugstore Dreamin’, the retro, […]
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The best albums of 2022: Washing Machine’s Cheat The Pattern
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. A group of Halifax music scenesters who also populate the lineups of […]
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The best albums of 2022: Pale Ache’s Mourning as a Metaphor
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. There’s a scene in the later half of season three of […]
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The best albums of 2022: Blue Lobelia’s Resilient Moon
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. Imagine if Lana Del Rey lived in a lighthouse, basing her […]
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12 concerts to look forward to in 2023
Perhaps you’re on the hunt for a last-minute gift for the music lover on your list. Or maybe you’re just in need of a little something to look forward to after the holiday season ends, a promissory note-to-self for the gray days of January and February. Either way, Halifax has you covered: Next year promises […]
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Two of the buzziest names in Canadian pop are headlining Halifax’s free New Year’s Eve show
If you still don’t have plans for New Year’s Eve, HRM has you covered. The city has long played host to the best party in town by sending off the year with a live showcase at Grand Parade square—and 2022’s slip into 2023 proves no different: Today, it was announced that Juno-winning pop-rocker JJ Wilde […]
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A tale of two Christmas albums
When it comes to setting the tone for the most wonderful time of the year, the soundtrack is key. (I mean, what are you gonna do? Decorate the tree in silence?) A good holiday album evokes equal parts joy and wistfulness, it makes room for all the big feelings of another year’s end and it […]
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Jah’Mila moved from Jamaica to Halifax to make the perfect reggae album
The cinematic drum-thumping that opens Roots Girl, the debut LP of Halifax’s preeminent reggae artist Jah’Mila, feels like the opening black screen before an epic movie’s beginning. It’s a signal of something you can’t help but sit up straighter for, spine aligned with anticipation. It’s a heralding, matched by slowly chanted lyrics that feel equal […]
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Scene stars debut two ways to help the next generation of Halifax musicians
When Paul Murphy kept hearing albums-in-progress from friends and peers that didn’t have music industry backing, the solution became obvious: “I was like ‘Man if we just had a label, we could help out and put this out’,” the Wintersleep front person and musician behind the project Postdata explains, speaking with The Coast by phone. […]
