Treat your eyeballs to some awesome art this weekend with a host of new shows, listen to stories from Africa at a dessert-included fundraiser, drop in to the Cannabis Sessions and don’t miss Juice Girls’ epic shoegaze pop. The Cannabis Sessions Saturday The Coast presents this one-day series of discussions that’ll help you demystify recreational […]
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The energy of Jean-Michel Blais
Jean-Michel Blais w/Paper Beat Scissors Saturday, April 6, 7pm St. Matthew’s Church, 1479 Barrington Street $33 adv/$38 doors, sonicconcerts.com It’s early on a weekend morning and Jean-Michel Blais is already buzzing with energy. When Blais first picks up the phone, he’s in the middle of packing up boxes of merch for a jaunt from Montreal […]
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Sam Wilson’s strings and a heartbeat
Sam Wilson Groundless Apprehensions release Sunday, April 7, 6:30pm 1313 Hollis, 1313 Hollis Street $10 The jazz guitarist Sam Wilson, a St. FX music grad, is just 25 but she moves through music like an old soul. Her favourite guitarists are Americans like the octogenarian Kenny Burrell and the late Michael Hedges and Jim Hall; […]
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Canadian Club
Social Smokers Club releases The Woods w/No, It’s Fine., Good Dear Good and Sore Loser Friday, April 5, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $8 Social Smokers Club started off as a high school English project about a book. It’s led to songs and booked shows around the Maritimes. When guitarist William Robbins and […]
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Watch the trailer for Jason Eisener’s new wrestling series
Viceland has dropped the trailer for its new wrestling doc series Dark Side of the Ring. Conceived by Dartmouth’s own Jason Eisener with Evan Husney, each episode follows, 30 For 30-style, a veteran wrestler including Bret Hart, Randy “Macho Man” Savage and The Fabulous Moolah. Dark Side of the Ring premieres Wednesday, April 10 for fancy cable-havers. Related […]
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Feast upon the (Burger) weekend with these Sure Things
Burger Week has finally arrived, so this weekend is the time to patty on and chow down. What to do in between meals? Try catching a soon-to-be-classic road flick, peeping Jordan Bennett’s much-lauded art show before it wraps, watch some vintage cartoons with a live soundtrack and more. Halifax Burger Week 2019 Thursday, Friday, Saturday, […]
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Wintersleep covers ground
Wintersleep w/Moon Logic Saturday, March 30, 10pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $33 sonicconcerts.com A decade after the hit single “Weighty Ghost,” Wintersleep found itself with another massive hit on its hands with “Amerika,” from 2016’s The Great Detachment. But heading back into the studio to make the followup record, it was business as […]
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Jazz Fest announces First Aid Kit and Bahamas in first round of headliners
We were a little worried when the Halifax Jazz Festival was still conspicuously silent this week, having announced its big gets in January of previous years. But it was all for naught—today HJF made its initial lineup announcement, and it was worth the wait. Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit will headline the waterfront stage […]
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Thrush Hermit returns September 28
Halifax faves Thrush Hermit will reunite this fall in honour of the 20th anniversary of their 1999 album Clayton Park, which will be released on vinyl for Record Store Day on April 13. Tickets for the September 28 show at The Marquee are available now for $44 right here. Don’t sleep!
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Spring into the weekend with these Sure Things
Spring is officially here so let’s bounce off the couch and head out to all sorts of fun events like the Pakistan Food Festival, Neptune’s creative re-telling of King Lear and a hot lineup of local bands-to-watch at Gus’ Pub. Fresh Looks Fashion Show Saturday The creative minds behind the White Rabbit Arts Festival brings […]
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Villages’ trad pride
Villages w/Thomas Stajcer Friday, March 22, 7pm & 10pm Good Robot Brewing Company, 2736 Robie Street $20-$45 W hen the members of Mardeen left Cape Breton after high school and formed an indie-rock band, the music associated with their island home was the opposite of what they wanted to play. “We totally rebelled against traditional […]
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Ralph’s Good time
Ralph w/Scott Helman and Myles Castello Friday, March 22, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $33 W hat does it take to be labelled a “good girl?” If you ask Canadian pop star Ralph, currently on a nationwide tour with Scott Helman, it’s as simple as throwing on a cheap street-market charm with the […]