The craziest thing about CocaineGate 2005 is not that Kate Moss does cocaine. (Girl, please! Even if she weren’t a model, her boyfriend, Pete Doherty, is an honest-to-goodness crackhead!) It’s not even that she was photographed doing so (which was awesome). It’s that the waste-of-life fashion industry is pretending that this is an isolated case, […]
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Bragg brings the rock
A steady succession of Halifax ex-pats have been playing in clubs around the city for the past month, and October is starting off no different. Mt. Pearl, Newfoundland’s Mark Bragg will return to promote his sophomore album, Bear Music, on October 2 at Gus’ Pub. “I moved to Toronto after Halifax, but didn’t enjoy it […]
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Tried and Trews
The last time The Coast spoke with Antigonish natives The Trews, it was December of 2004. They were heading home to Canada for the holidays following 10 days of demo sessions in Austin, Texas with their friend and collaborator Gordie Johnson (Grady, ex-Big Sugar), who also produced the band’s gold-selling smash, House of Ill Fame. […]
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Shacked up
Tom Wilson and Bob Lanois will forever be distinguished as founding fathers of their hometown’s rich and influential musical history. Citing the differences in their reputations, however, one could accurately describe the Hamilton, Ontario, natives’ recent collaboration as surprising. Wilson is known as the notorious party animal behind several critically acclaimed roots-rock projects including Junkhouse […]
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4,827 kilometres
Ontario writer and Exclaim! editor Jason Schneider — who co-wrote the essential Canadian rock music tome Have Not Been the Same with Michael Barclay and Ian Andrew Jack — has just released his debut novel, 3,000 Miles, on ECW Press. It follows a handful of Quebecois teens in the aftermath of Kurt Cobain’s suicide as […]
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Murph no slow one
It will be almost three years to the day since Sloan last played an open show in the streets they called home when they perform at the McInnes Room on September 23. Now residing in Toronto for the better half of a decade, Chris Murphy reassures that despite their absence, the band has kept a […]
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Lockdown at City Hall
At about a quarter to six on the average Tuesday evening, you will find a small collection of city staff and councillors milling about the front steps of city hall (and the surrounding parking lot) grabbing a final few puffs on their cigarettes before heading inside to do the business of the municipality. And occasionaly, […]
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Stills standing
A band releases a great record and tours its collective ass off, playing its music to thousands of eventual converts and achieving the status of a band with a bright future. But over the thousands of traveled miles and similar sounding records being produced by sound-alike acts, the group starts to question itself and the […]
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The big sell
So, crybaby, can’t score tickets to your fav-ourite band’s sold-out show? The big night’s approaching and you’re empty handed and broken hearted? Chin up, kid—you don’t have to miss out, you just have to get creative. Some tried and true methods include buying tickets on eBay (or from dodgy-looking men near the venue); being the […]
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Sleater-Kinney saves the world
I’ve just caught shit from the drummer of Sleater-Kinney. In asking Janet Weiss about the state of women in music, I should have known better and she lets me know it. “How do you feel about men in music?” Weiss fires back. “I feel like you’re putting me in the ghetto just asking that question. […]
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The outsiders
“I was up at 3am one morning and was really bored so I just decided to send some of our songs to Jeffery at Art & Crafts,” says Adam Nimmo, drummer for The Most Serene Republic. “He got back to me the next day and was really excited about what he heard. The rest, as […]
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Anniversary horribilis
There are plenty of things to hate about the glossy publication that comes inside the massive Sunday edition of the New York Times. For starters, it’s attached to the Times, which any Coast reader knows is leading the corporate right-wing media conspiracy. (Pity those conservatives who think the Times is the official newsletter of the […]
