Yo dawg I heard you liked pictures of over-the-top tour vans, so here’s one right here. See it in person Sunday at the Toothy Moose with your favourites Jay Mayne, Cam Smith and Kayo. Here’s a song: And a nice laugh:
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See it all this Saturday at Sad Rad
Here’s where you should be on Saturday, November 24 (at 9pm with 6 spare dollars). Such a wide sampling of wonderful talent, sodas, couches, arcade games, pals in my favourite place in the city, Sad Rad (5820 Young Street). Don’t miss this please. It’s a crazy mix of genres, which rarely happens to this degree. […]
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BYE LOCALS!
When I first heard popular music/skateboarding messageboard halifaxlocals.com was shutting down I was like Then I was like Then I went back and read a bunch of old pms and I was like Also read a bunch of lovey dovey “I’ll miss you locals” threads and was like Realizing that all my stupid posts would […]
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Mixtape mania
We can still stake a claim on ol’ Ryan Hemsworth as a local treasure, right? Sure we can, especially when he’s giving away free downloads of all his 2012 mixtapes on Twitter. That’s a lot of listening! Click and enjoy.
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RiFF RAFF in Halifax on January 11
Great news this morning via The New Halifax: “Very Happy To Announce the First Show of 2013 for Us….. The Rap Game Ken Griffey Jr……. RIFF RAFF January 11th Full Details Coming Soon……” Yahoo! My favourite weird and amazing looking person RiFF RAFF! He doesn’t take kindly to being teased on Twitter but why would […]
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Go see Hoax tonight!
You have one last chance to get your mind blown into tiny, tiny pieces by Massachusetts’ punishing hardcore superpower Hoax so I don’t want to hear any lame excuses about how you missed the boat. Last night’s Gus’ Pub show was insane, don’t miss them tonight at Sad Rad (7pm, $8 with Dyscontrol, The I […]
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NSMW: ladies who brunch
After dropping some ‘bows to get to the coffee station we (myself and the Music Nova Scotia Award nominated media profesh Stephanie Johns, NBD) perched ourselves in the back of the Atlantic Room for the brunch portion of the awards. The morning kicked off with Willie Stratton ensuring the crowd rubbed the sleep out of […]
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NSMW: S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y, NIGHT
After some post-Dixie Lee downtime/singalongs in cabin 23, Stephanie, Tara and I set out for a much-needed beach stroll during which we were greeted by the cutest black bunny (AKA Patches) doing some upward facing dog-style stretching. We took a little time to air ourselves out while enjoying the freaking amazing White Point vista and […]
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NSMW: Friday night lights
Feeling sufficiently chagrined about missing the first day of Nova Scotia Music Week (a gal’s gotta work), Allison and I set out for Liverpool with a great travel companion, the writer, journalist and smooth radio voice, Stephanie Domet. I refrained from singing Beyoncé’s “Halo” at top volume in honour of Halo 4 being released, but […]
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Paper Beat Scissors surprise show tonight
Tonight at Gus’ Pub, European jet setter Paper Beat Scissors jumps out from behind a curtain and surprises everyone with a secret show featuring a lot of cool instruments. “It’s gonna be a very special show with a seven-piece (bassoon, euphonium, violin, guitar, bass, drums) PBS lineup in preparation for NSMW,” PBS’ Tim Crabtree says. […]
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The Herbaliser and Teenburger make use of those Halifax zombies
Keep that Halloween feeling going with The Herbaliser’s third single from their latest album There Were Seven, “March Of The Dead Things”, featuring Halifax/Toronto duo Teenburger (Ghettosocks and Timbuktu). Directed by filmmaker Caley MacLennan and featuring a killer cast of local zombie enthusiasts pulled together “viral flash mob” style in a matter of hours, the […]
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Hemsworth the wait
Fresh from being winked at saucily by The Guardian—the British news site cited him as the band of the day on Monday, lavishing praise on his “woozy/hazy with a side order of slurry/blurred” style—former Haligonian Ryan Hemsworth makes a quick visit home this week, opening for Zeds Dead at the Palace on October 30 (with […]
