Since his days with Dartmouth alt-country quintet The Guthries, Matt Mays has been among the most widely familiar and embraced musicians in Halifax. Due to geographic reasons, however, making the next step in his career and avoiding artistic purgatory meant the 26-year-old was faced with considerable time away from family and his oldest fan base. […]
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Gabe on
To the average person, Gabe Minnikin hasn’t changed much. He’s still the same friendly, deep-voiced, long-haired musician he always was. But over the course of a conversation, it’s apparent there’s something different about the ex-Guthries singer-songwriter, who recently returned from a year-and-a-half sojourn in Manchester, England. Although his eyes retain the look of someone who […]
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Dishing
Just when you thought flying Air Canada couldn’t get any worse, the latest issue of enRoute twists the knife. The same month AC announces you have to pay for meals on all North American routes, the in-flight magazine comes out with its annual Food Issue. Nothing like making hungry travellers read mouth-watering descriptions of Canada’s […]
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Cuff stuff
Oshawa alt-country darlings Cuff the Duke’s lone Halifax show in August was so successful they will be doing double duty this time around. The pair of performances on November 18 and 19 at Stage Nine will also be purposefully dissimilar, which frontman Wayne Petti says will make it worth forking out the $15 to attend […]
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In a fix
Angela Weal has been trying for five months to get her front and back doors fixed. Despite repeated promises, her landlord simply wouldn’t do the repairs. So Weal went to the city and the province for help. After months of phone calls, a hearing, and three separate orders to repair (all of which expired, with […]
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Stage developments
Quake It’s hard out here for a kid. Sometimes it’s tough being the new kid. And when you’re the new kid in an MC battle, expect to hear about it. Especially when you’re a 16-year-old high school student. “They say stuff like, ‘Go back to playing with Fisher-Price,’” says Matt Arab, AKA MC Quake, about […]
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One year later…
Apt Also known as Dave Plowman, MC Apt left Halifax for greener pastures in Toronto this fall to attend sound engineering school. The intellectual rapper officially released the semi-concept album Canvastripper — inspired by reading Dante’s Inferno as a university student — early in the year. Apt has been back in Halifax for shows in […]
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Hardcore icon
In life, there are cycles that are constant. Snakes shed their skin four to eight times a year, birds migrate north annually and roughly every two to three years Walter Schreifels starts a hugely influential and underappreciated band and puts out a seminal release. In Halifax to perform a solo show with friends and collaborators […]
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Blue Steele
Singer/guitarist Keri Steele has difficulty staying comfortable in a band for very long. She started the new age folk group Imaginary Heaven when she was still in her teens, making three albums before moving to Toronto and forming melodic loop-based female quartet Hush Hush. A pair of records later, Steele has once again switched gears, […]
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Groud Dwell
The Pocket Dwellers rumble through the mountains of Montana following a show in Tofino, BC. “It’s beautiful and desolate, man,” observes MC/vocalist NiGel (AKA Nigel Williams). The rocky landscape hurtling past Williams’s window couldn’t be more appropriate considering the shout-out he gives on “Stop,” the first track of the band’s new album, PD-Atrics: “This is […]
