Ryan MacGrath is sick. You can see it before you’re even close enough to say hi, as he makes his way up the moderate incline of Blowers Street, offering a restrained wave. “My bones hurt,” he says, with a hint of real worry in his voice—that voice—as he settles into a chair overlooking a Grafton […]
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Had me at screwdriver fight
Q My partner spends a good deal of time seeking out pictures of very young girls to masturbate to. Nothing illegal, he says, but still… He admits to having a 20-year-plus addiction to porn, and with that particular addiction, he says, comes the need to continue upping the taboo factor in order to get off. […]
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Returned to sender
Q My boss lives and works in a different city, but most of her mail arrives at my office because it is the company’s official address. I routinely open mail and packages addressed to her. Usually they contain documents for me to handle or software for me to install, but today I opened a package […]
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The prehistory of sex
Q My husband of eight years confessed to wanting to watch me with another man. I asked if he meant it. He said yes. I asked if he wanted me to set it up. He said yes. I found a guy, and he agreed to a full STD screening—at my husband’s suggestion and our expense—so […]
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Ways to flip your off-switch on
Q I’m a woman in my 20s, and I’ve been dating the love of my life for two years now. We are incredibly happy except for—guess!—we have different sex drives. When we first started dating, I initiated sex all the time and enjoyed it, but as soon as I started on birth control, my libido […]
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The Caravan
Known for outlandish acoustic hip-hop covers of “Mama Said Knock You Out,” The Caravan has been silently gaining a cult following and is now putting its debut album, Emerald City, out on wax June 12 at the Seahorse—fronted by NSLC employee/potential Playgirl cover model Kyle Mckenna, with Freddie Prinze Jr. look-alike Mark Bachynski on the […]
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Long, Long, Long
Long, Long, Long can’t sit still. They’ve barely played their second show, and they’re already working on their second release and preparing for a mid-June tour. After three of four band members began building a reputation across Canada as York Redoubt last year, the band’s sudden split late in the fall left plenty of disappointed […]
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The Cold Warps
Here’s a conundrum: You and your friends start a band. You make punk that spangles, with romantic snappy hooks that echo in the brain for days. You do a small tour, you release a tape and suddenly everyone is in love with you. Crowds throng your shows, each person banging into the other, clutching each […]
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Heather and Chelsea Edgett
It doesn’t get any sweeter than Heather and Chelsea Edgett. The twosome embodies love, togetherness and matrimony. Both are songwriters in their own light. Having met via MySpace, Chelsea chased Heather to Los Angeles where the two of them cultivated their craft and said their vows. Due to Proposition 8 they had to head back […]
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Micro Organs
Jenny Gillespie (also of Meat Curtains) first began performing solo under the name Oil Spills and Microrganisms in 2008, but has since switched to the shorter Micro Organs. She teamed up with drummer Mathieu Blanchard in October of last year—“I thought you were good, I wanted to play with you,” Blanchard pipes up from behind, […]
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Mydriasis
Mydriasis is one of those bands where the “new” status is a little amorphous: They’ve been jamming in various incarnations for the past two years, and three members—Mike Atwell, Mitch Henshaw and Jeff Morrison—have played together for years. But after going through three bass players and two singers, guitarist Henshaw says that the pieces finally […]
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The Rockin’ Apostles
If the rockabilly scene in Halifax could be likened to a growing baby, the three men in The Rockin’ Apostles are the ones to rear it. When veteran player Carey Beck moved to Halifax after years doing rockabilly on the road, he found two like-minded souls in Fabian O’Brien and Craig Hamlin. The three began […]
