The Sorrys will play at Gus’ Pub on May 3 and they are hoping for a visit from a very special guest. Members of the group have been lobbying rock legend Alice Cooper—performing at the Metro Centre the same night—to attend their show afterwards and meet drummer Steve Baur. A Dalhousie University musicologist, Baur is […]
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Hardcore grip
Although local hardcore band The Hold makes its home on a label whose name symbolizes breaking up, there’s been a lot of marriage going on lately. The Hold’s KC Spidle—who happens to be a co-founder of the local independent label—and bassist Crystal Thili tied the knot on April 5. Ten days later they had a […]
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Screen saviours
ViewFinders attendees (and their parents), take note: this moviemaking business is a real, live career! Head to Park Lane at 6pm on April 20 for a screening of nine films by graduates of NSCAD’s film program. They include documentaries by Grant Bagnell (DOA: Depiction of Addiction) and Courtney O’Hearn (House of Blues); dramas from Cailin […]
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Come what Mays
For those who have picked up Sam Roberts’ latest, Chemical City, and haven’t read the liner notes yet, I’ll save you some work. Matt Mays appears on track five, “Uprising Down Under,” which he recorded with his buddy last year during Australia’s beautifully warm winter months. “I went to Australia and went surfing for a […]
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Jon Epworth’s second act
Jon Epworth doesn’t want to talk about his alter egos. He’d rather not talk about his various musical incarnations or how he spreads himself perhaps a little too thin. By now, the concept’s boring. This is just his life. Epworth states it simply: “I do a lot of stuff.” But it’s a little hard to […]
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Midnight Massive
Break out the party hats, streamers and birthday cake: From modest beginnings to three-floor parties and jammed clubs, dance music fans will celebrate the 11th anniversary of Massive Productions, a local company that has been bringing top-name DJs to Halifax for over a decade. More than a birthday party, the show at Rain this Friday […]
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We’re watching
Upstart company Le Theatre de Boheme is close to a year old now, so they thought they’d celebrate the anniversary with an easy adaptation of 1984. “1984 doesn’t exactly fall into the mandate of the company,” says director David Connellan, laughing wearily on a break at the Khyber. “We’re more minimalist.” The production features more […]
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Great Plains flying
Momentum in support of alternative rockers Great Plains is building faster than the trio can keep up. The band, just returning from its first Maritime tour with Down with the Butterfly and Jenn Grant, has accepted an offer to head back out on the road in Quebec and Ontario the first week of May. “It’s […]
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Koala’s beats
Kid Koala possesses a short attention span. That’s not a knock—he freely admits he has an overactive mind—but it goes a long way to explain his creative process. Kid Koala (AKA Eric San) is a man who can ingest much more information than the common person and make it into something exciting and original. At […]
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A breath of canned air
“It’s so fuckin’ great out here,” says Ben Mulroney to anyone in earshot near the corner of Argyle and Carmichael in downtown Halifax. It is fuckin’ great out here. It’s Thursday, March 30 at 10 in the morning, and spring-like weather has come early, though only a fool would suggest it will stay. I am […]
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Short shorts
A handful of new filmmakers will screen their works on Friday—or, in Variety-speak, Digitial Doc Denizens Drop Debuts—as part of a journalism school workshop taught by noted local movie maven Sylvia Hamilton. “The one that I did is about band names,” says King’s student Karley Tabak of the tentatively titled Name, which she made with […]
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The hockey song
There was certainly no shortage of chirping between The NHL All-Stars and The Rockers before the Juno Cup hockey game on March 31. Animosity was high as the two clubs prepared to face off in this year’s installment of a fierce rivalry some compare in passion to that of the Sens and Leafs in recent […]