DJ Okay TK (formerly Plaeboi) took to the DJ mines to make this perfect Friday desk jam of Yoncé’s “7/11”. Please enjoy and don’t you drop that alcohol:
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Video: Hillsburn, “Farther In The Fire”
Folk-pop Hillsburn bring it in a new video for “Farther In The Fire”, a track off its 2014 self-titled EP. Shot by Mat Barkley at BADFUN Media, “Farther In The Fire” is intense and goosebump-inducing. But you can see for yourself with one click. Hillsburn (self-titled EP) by Hillsburn Related Stories
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A Cold Smoke 2015 playlist
It’s slippery as all hell outside—all the better to slide your ass down to the Marquee Ballroom tomorrow night for two floors of good vibes and music (Saturday, January 10, 2015, 9pm, $15/$20, see the event link for ticket retailers). Featuring Dub Kartel, Cam Smith, Coyote, Glory Glory, Ambition, Floodland, Trees Speak Breeze, StahMeNah VyBz […]
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What was your best (or worst) live music moment of 2014?
Let’s go for a walk down memory lane together, shall we? While you’re sitting at home making your 2015 New Year’s Resolutions to not procrastinate as much, why not waste some time thinking about the best times you sloshed beer on your going out shoes while swaying at a show? “Cam Smith’s screening of ‘Turbo’ […]
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Who is Miri Ben-Ari? A guide
Halifax has decided to bring Miri Ben-Ari to town for the Grand Parade NYE celebration. Keep in mind, this celebration will not be televised or streamed because it’s almost 2015 and soon we will all be taking CultureTabs™ (BACK OFF IT’S MY INVENTION) anyway so who needs TV. But who is Miri Ben-Ari, and why […]
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Listen to the best albums of 2014
Reading about music is like dancing about architecture—it’s really awesome and interesting. If you haven’t read about the Coast’s best albums of 2014 yet, as chosen by Adria Young, Doug Taylor, David Dahms and myself, I encourage you do so. But while you do so, click play on this playlist of songs and judge our […]
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Review: Tales of A Charlie Brown Christmas
While the temperature dropped below freezing, and snowflakes danced atop Citadel Hill, a nearly sold out crowd gathered to warm their cockles at Spatz Theatre for The Halifax Jazz Festival presentation of Tales of A Charlie Brown Christmas, featuring the Jerry Granelli Trio and the Vivace Children’s Choir Sunday afternoon and evening. As the only […]
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A Friday night
Picture this like Sliding Doors, you pick one option, meet the person of your dreams, start your own PR firm. You pick another and you’re headed out to San Francisco on your own, something that didn’t happen in the film Sliding Doors but maybe should have? Option 1: Matthew Samways, Unreal Thought, DJ Brett Wagg […]
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For the love of Jenn Grant
Last night Jenn Grant outshone the moon with her constellation of songs. After a long cross-country album release tour, and her third sold-out show in a row at The Carleton, her latest, Compostela, positions Grant amongst the brightest map of stars in the night sky. Warming the hour with their sturdy Cape Breton hearts, Villages—a […]
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Beauty at the Sarah McLachlan show
Music has a transformative quality. It’s like time travel. Last night at Sarah McLachlan’s two-act concert at Scotiabank Centre (formerly known as the Metro Centre), I returned to my teenage years, nostalgia-soaked. A time when I quaked with aliveness and felt raw yearning for experience, I wanted the moon, stars and whole night sky to […]
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Celebrating 10 years with the Halifax Summer Opera Festival
It’s been a decade since Nina Scott-Stoddart and Tara Scott first came up with the idea to create an annual workshop for aspiring young opera singers. Since then, Halifax audiences have been entertained by 17 fully-staged operas. This year, more than 80 performers from Canada and the U.S. are taking part in three main stage […]
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LISTEN: Kirsten Olivia’s T.H.A.N.
Kirsten Olivia will be all over stages this weekend for the Halifax Jazz Fest, showing off her powerful R&B chops, but if you’re too scared of the hurricane (be brave) then you can cop a solid dose of Olivia by downloading her brand new EP, T.H.A.N. today, right here. Olivia’s focused on the present these […]
