Gabrielle Papillon w/Gianna Lauren Nov 30 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street 7pm $25 Gabrielle Papillon will take you on a journey through social anxiety to a new kind of bravery with her art-pop album Shout. “If you start off at the beginning of the record,” Papillon says, “that song is like anxiety brain.” She’s […]
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Christina Martin knows it’s a Wonderful Lie
Christina Martin & Dale Murray Nov 29 The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street 7pm $17.50/$20 Sometimes Christina Martin doesn’t feel like talking about it. “And my husband’s amazing,” she says. “He’s like, ‘Why not? Yeah, we need to talk about this. We need to do this.’” It’s a difficult subject. “We lost our brother Stephane to […]
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Ben Rogers’ Wildfire burns bright
The album art for Ben Rogers’ latest LP, Wildfire, testifies to the record’s origin story as it depicts a piano engulfed in flame. The fire gulps air, spreading out of the frame, white hot against a cool blue background. “After the last record, I just felt a natural shift, just steered away from that genre,” […]
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The wonder of Whoop-Szo
Whoop-Szo w/Motherhood, Valerie Nov 28 The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street 9pm-midnight $10 Adam Sturgeon doesn’t know, exactly, what it means to be a warrior. His grungy band Whoop-Szo—which sounds as if a folky Dave Grohl decided to make shoegaze-streaked metal—wrestles with this question throughout the 10-track effort Warrior Down, but it’s still murky: “I […]
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Neon Dreams on
Loud Luxury w/Neon Dreams, Fama, Karate Kactus Tue, Nov 26, 7pm Cunard Centre, 961 Marginal Road $41.50-$52.50 This has been more than just a coming out year for Halifax’s Neon Dreams. After 2019 witnessed the release of the band’s debut full-length album (that’d be the long-awaited Sweet Dreams Till Sundown) hits like “High School Dropout,” […]
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The eternal sunshine of Judee Sill
Chasin’ The Sun: A Tribute to Judee Sill Sat, Nov 23, 8pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street $20 O n the 40th anniversary of her death, Halifax musicians will gather at the Art Bar to celebrate the life and music of Judee Sill. Part of the class of long-haired 1970s singer-songwriters, Sill wrote […]
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Dinuk Wijeratne stays wylin’
Dinuk Wijeratne Trio Fri Nov 22, 7:30pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road $15-$35 P ianist-conductor-composer-genre-obliterating Dinuk Wijeratne returns to Halifax this weekend for a trio concert at the Paul O’Regan Hall. Wijeratne will be joined by jazz drummer and world percussionist Nick Halley and jazz artist Tom Easley on bass. […]
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Ten questions with New Hermitage
The four-piece ambient, improvised music group New Hermitage has been melting brains and building mazes of sound since 2017. The basis of what unfolds before your ears and eyes onstage is a Ray Bradbury-sounding experiment, described in the band’s press release as follows: “New Hermitage imagines a future in which pollution has decimated the population of […]
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Moonwake’s shifting tide
Moonwake w/Elise Besler at Inventions 2019 Nov 15-17, 7pm Christ Church, 61 Dundas St, Dartmouth $15 Moonwake will make your spirit rise and fall like the tide when it performs with an orchestra and a choir. The band is slated to play November 15, 16 and 17 for Inventions, the annual musician-combining event put on […]
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Show review: Rebecca Thomas and Symphony Nova Scotia reach farther together
Symphony Nova Scotia presented ‘Melody and Poetry With Rebecca Thomas’ in its Masterworks Series on Nov 7. The concert blended melodic classical repertoire (think Mozart Symphony No.34 in C major and Brahms Symphony No.2 in D major) with We’re Not Done Drumming, a new poetic and musical collaboration between poet Rebecca Thomas and composer Laura […]
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Review: Don’t sleep on the lullaby folk of Ostrea Lake
Don’t Sway Above Me, the debut full length album from Halifax band Ostrea Lake, is an ethereal collection of indie folk from the forest floor—though a careful listener may notice the bugs crawling underneath the foliage. The album is a sombre exploration of natural landscapes. Lakes, trees and fire are featured in song titles—but also […]