Here’s a local connection: yesterday, sister-singer duo Chloe x Halle released a video for “Drop”, directed by Halifax’s Andrew Hines. It’s an absolutely stunning visual that complements an incredibly stunning song. Last year, after millions of views on their homemade Youtube videos, and a gorgeous cover of Beyoncé’s “Pretty Hurts”, Chloe and Halle Bailey were signed to Bey’s new label Parkwood Entertainment. You […]
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Top Five: What electronic artist AA Wallace misses about Halifax
Former Halifax-based electronic musician AA Wallace returns from Toronto on Saturday to shake up The Seahorse (2037 Gottingen, 10pm, $12) with dance-party cone-heads Tupper Ware Remix Party. It’s going to be all kinds of crazy, especially since Wallace just released his second party album In Alpha Zones, an 11-track synth-pop romp on Culvert Music. For his homecoming, Wallace tells […]
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Detroit’s Royce da 5’9” coming to Halifax on his Canadian tour
Detroit rap heavyweight Royce da 5’9” is coming to Halifax in May! The friend of Eminem (freminem?) from their duo Bad Meets Evil went on to work with some of the biggest names in hip-hop from Big Sean to TechN9ne to Common and more. His new album, Layers, will be out on April 15 and he continues to […]
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Songs to celebrate the life and music of Jay Smith
While on tour with Matt Mays in Edmonton, struggling with depression and addictions, Cape Breton songwriter and legendary Rock Ranger James ‘Jay’ Smith took his own life on March 27, 2013. Musical communities across Canada collectively mourned the loss of one of Nova Scotia’s greatest rock musicians, known as the lead of Sydney’s Rock Ranger, as […]
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Halifax rockers The Everywheres are on Broad City tonight
Tonight on MUCH (11pm AST), a little ditty called “Watch It Grow” by Halifax psych-rockers The Everywheres will have 10 or so glorious seconds of airtime on one of the most popular comedy shows in America. Yeah, that’s right: The Everywheres will be on Broad City. The Everywheres LP by The Everywheres “This really is […]
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Hamilton punk band TV Freaks in Halifax for two shows only
If you’re a fan of The Stooges, Sub Pop‘s Pissed Jeans, Black Flag or any good punk music at all, then you only have two chances to see TV Freaks this week and you better take them both. From Hamilton, I’ve spied that the band is here recording music over at Fun Dog. They play tonight at Plan B (2180 Gottingen Street, 8pm, […]
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Watch: hot new hip-hop video from Halifax’s Ben Francis
Now here’s a young dream-team. If you haven’t heard of 18-year-old rapper Ben Francis yet, this is your chance to vibe on some seriously hot new hip-hop from one of Halifax’s up and comers. Below, watch his new video for “That Something,” filmed and directed by Moose Media‘s Brendan Lyle (@MooseCanFly), another up and comer (he’s […]
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Garrison’s Backlot Bash with July Talk, Three Sheet and more
Gear up to get beer’d up: this Friday, March 11, tickets go on sale for Garrison Brewing’s second annual Backlot Bash, featuring musical performances from Toronto blues rockers July Talk, Halifax rappers Three Sheet, ECMA winners Alert the Medic and local upstarts The Brood at the all-night, open-air parking lot party festival in support of the Ecology […]
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Tribute band Wildest Dreams pick fave Taylor Swift songs
Tonight, Halifax’s will be treated to the third Taylor Swift Tribute Night with 10-piece band Wildest Dreams and special guest vocalists. It’s possible after tonight that they will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever be getting back together. So just in case, you better bundle yourself up and head to The Marquee (2037 Gottingen Street, 10pm, $10) […]
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Watch the teaser pitch for BA Johnston’s Ham Jam
Hamilton’s own “trash troubadour,” the beloved longtime Gus’ Pub staple, former Haligonian and 2015 Polaris Music Prize nominee (Shit Sucks), BA Johnston just dropped a teaser pitch for an online web-series starring himself! And it goes something like this: “BA is enlisted by the fictional Hamilton Tourism Action Committee to produce tourism videos to promote the city. […]
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We’ve got the full Gridlock Festival lineup right here, right now
The full line-up for Halifax’s newest music explosion, Gridlock Festival, is out today and The Coast has it all right here, right now. From July 8 to July 10, Halifax is going to see some of the U.S. and Canada’s hottest electro-pop and rock bands play the Citadel High grounds, and Stillwell Beer as the bar sponsor. […]
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Listen to this Oscars-inspired beat tape by 75 Crates
In case you don’t know (somehow?), it’s Oscar Weekend—this Sunday is the biggest annual night in the film industry and the 88th annual Academy Awards, hosted by Chris Rock, will take place in Hollywood at the Dolby Theatre. #OscarSoWhite or not, millions of people will sit through three-hours-plus of schmoozing and inside jokes as some of the year’s movie blockbusters […]
