1 Best of Halifax 2015 has landed. This year’s mega-survey has compiled our Best of Halifax Food, Music and City awards into one super ballot—and you can vote for your favourites starting today. Right now. Do it. PRO TIP: you don’t have to fill this whole thing out in one sitting—our voting site saves your […]
Best of Music
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How do you make the Best of Halifax better?
Dear readers, It’s time. This year, we’re changing our Best of Halifax Readers’ Choice awards. Since the debut of our readers’ choice survey in 1995—back when the ballots were handwritten and the winners only took up two pages in the paper—we’ve been trying out different ways to make the survey stronger. And with stronger came […]
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Vote in the Best of Halifax Readers’ Choice Music Awards!
Now’s your time to shine, folks. Let us know your favourites of 2013 in the Best of Halifax Readers’ Choice Music Awards survey (or BOHM, for ease). Click here and vote to your heart’s content! You could win a $1000 shopping spree at Long & McQuade just by voting! Poll is open until Sunday, February […]
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Your Best of Music 2013 results
You voted, campaigned, shared, convinced and possibly bribed (no judging—while we dutifully tallied your selections for the 2013 Best of Music issue. Here are your gold, silver and bronze winners for the cream of the crop in Halifax music, the final results of The Coast’s biggest Best of Music readers’ survey ever. Featuring interviews with […]
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Your ballot could win the grand prize in our 11th annual Best of Music readers’ survey
Four lucky winners have already won our weekly prizes of Grado headphones courtesy of Peak Audio—Rock Johnson, Troy Corbin, Hannah McLaren and Greg Farnell—but there is still time to enter your ballot to win the grand prize of a Pro-ject Debut III turntable, also from those nice folks at Peak Audio. Click here and vote […]
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Go forth and vote in the Best of Music readers’ survey!
It’s Best of Music time again! Time to support on your favourite local stars and enter in a draw to win the grand prize of a Pro-ject Debut III turntable or one of our four weekly prizes of Grado headphones courtesy of Peak Audio Click here to vote in the 11th annual Best of Music […]
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You Gotta Burp the Tupperware to Make It Talk
Sarah DeVenne Ladies love cool aliens Ever seen that movie Earth Girls Are Easy? Talking to Doctor Sung, who plays keyboards in Coast Best of Music Winner Tupperware Remix Party (and who periodically inhabits the body of Jorin Caldwell) I feel a little like I’m getting mash notes from Jeff Goldblum’s sexy alien character, Mac. […]
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Best Album
To say that response to Joel Plaskett’s ambitious triple album Three is positive is as big an understatement as Lady Gaga’s lightning- bolt headpiece. Shortlisted for the Polaris Prize, Plaskett now has a bunch of ECMAs and Best of Music awards to add to the mantle too. Recorded with “talented family and friends,” Three is […]
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Best Album Artwork
Last year marked Halifax crossing over to Black Moor and their debut The Conquering, on Best Label winner, Diminished Fifth. The metal band and its loud, energetic live show quickly became a favourite around town—even for those who’ve never rocked a fist before—performing at Megafest, Cole Harbour Harvest Festival and Monte’s in Dartmouth, where it […]