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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Torso Plays in Korea
Ian Chiasson Sato Yuki and Kinki Iori (foreground) Last Sunday (May 29) South Korean noise fans got a wee taste of Halifax when Torso (aka Sandy Saunders) played a show at a bar called Strange Fruit (love that) in Seoul (he was in the city to visit some friends). He was joined on the bill […]
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Do the Busk-a-Busk
Shannon Webb-CampbellRia Mae will charm you at Backpackers Unless there are good sandwiches available, press conferences in general are pretty boring. Even when they involve fun, ostensibly joyful things, everyone seems bored and tense and most likely are wishing they could whip out double entendres and amusing prattle like the Beatles did in 1964. Music Nova Scotia have chosen a different tack in announcing their 70 showcase artists for Nova Scotia Music Week this November in Yarmouth: they’re getting a cluster of MNS artists to spread the news via song, on the streets. This Tuesday, from 11:30-1:30pm, they’ll be performing
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Hey Fun Boys, Get a Room
erik southey (i think?) blurry dreams The Awesome Grown-Up Rainbow Party occupy an odd place in the Halifax music scene, if you ask drummer Michel Ungurain. “We’re not quite straight-up punk and not quite rock n’ roll,” he says. “It can be the trickiest thing.” Also, their name, while hilarious, often leads to confusion. “People […]
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Hell yes: 3 Inches of Blood return
Everyone’s favorite orc-slayers 3 Inches of Blood are coming to Halifax in…you guessed it. May. AWRITE! With special guests Barnburner and Goat Whore. Saturday May 8th, The Paragon Theatre, $13/$15/$20, 10pm.Buy your tickets at.ticketpro.ca, call 1-888-311-9090 or visit an outlet.
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Take Your Sweetie for some hot Rock Lobster Action
A number of reliable-to-semi-drunken sources have informed me that tickets for the B-52’s March 19 and 20 gig are being sold as 2 for 1. So $70 will slide you and your dancing partner nicely into the Love Shack…..ugh, that sounded so gross. Tickets are at ticketatlantic.com.
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Happy Green Dorkface Day
Since I’m at work and can’t drink, I thought I’d share a little ditty that’s giving me a dance party at my desk. In fact, it’s making me go Gaga. May I present the Pomplamoose cover of the Lady Gaga/Beyonce ditty, Telephone. Complete with skinny man dancing! I love Gaga, I love cutesy dorks, I […]
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I HATE MY BROTHER
I HATE HIM I HATE HIM SO FUCKING MUCH!!!! HE’S SUCH A FUCKING LOSER!!! ALL HE DOES IS SKATEBOARD ALL FUCKING DAY AND WATCH SKATEBOARDING VIDEOS AND LOOK AT SKATEBOARDING PICTURES AND WASTE HIS LIFE!!! HE’S AS SKINNY AS A POLE AND DOESN’T EVEN FEED HIMSELF!! HE LOAFS ALL DAY LONG WHEN HE’S NOT SKATEBOARDING […]
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Pow! Splatch! Kerbloosh!
the only good reason i can think of to be running down one of the busiest streets in Halifax at lunch time in a ultra tight ultra revealing “lemon” outfit is that you’re a super hero on your way to fight crime. NOTE: your powers of transparency seem to be malfunctioning, as you ran right […]