This past humid Saturday afternoon, a bunch of Halifax bands carried gear, a generator and sweet summer snacks to the old lookout on the Polly’s Cove Trail, a rugged path with a beautiful view of Peggy’s Cove. Organized by Matt Peters, the Polly’s Cove Summer Show featured eight sets of folk, rock, sludge and electronica on rock […]
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New Local Trax
outtacontroller Something is in the air, because all this new music is coming out all of a sudden. Pretty neat. Some of these tunes are free and some of them will be on sale at various shows and the like shortly. Have a listen, have a taste, get in the Chrizzy spirit and buy something. […]
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HPX 2011: Thursday
I’m exhausted today and will try to keep it short. Went to a new Russian place for breakfast and someone from my party ordered borscht for breakfast, and I found this totally disgusting. And oh hey look, it’s Quaker Parents and Bloodhouse at the Coast HPX party. If you missed this, you missed free beers […]
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HPX 2011: Wednesday
After watching what is singlehandedly the most disgusting Kenny vs. Spenny episode of all time, we took off, still gagging, to CKDU for the first free lobby show of the year featuring the Weekend Dads and Cold Warps. The bands calmed my nausea and provided a welcome kick in the face. Cold Warps tried a […]
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No Reason for a Dead Leslie Nielsen
In some aspects 2010 was a pretty lame year, particularly when you consider that it was capped by the death of Lt. Frank Drebin. Anyway, I think we all need good music to chase away the annihilating frost of seasonal depression. I have a feeling the second annual No Reason for the Season show at […]
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The Return of Monotonix
photo stolen from digbeth.org I know it’s barely Halloween but there’s an early Christmas prezzie on the horizon for all you fans of Israeli stoner/freak-rock. The terrors from Tel Aviv, Monotonix, will be returning to Halifax on December 12th to the Seahorse to presumably blow your faces off with their hairy-chested little antics. Fun to […]
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Bloodhouse, Quivers, Grown-ups
This Tuesday night will be a difficult one for you. You will have some choices to make. Continuing on the endless train of gushery for Bloodhouse, I’d just like to politely remind you, once, unassumingly, but fervently, that the band is playing at Gus’ tonight with Calgary’s The Grown-Ups and new/old sweethearts Quivers. 10pm, cheap […]
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New Free Music-a-Rama
Breaking news, ya maroons: People in the city are doing interesting things and giving you their music for free. Let’s run it down, shall we? First we have the city’s great white garage hopes The Baketones and the release of the first of five cover albums. Each band member gets to pick three cover songs […]
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5 Questions: Bloodhouse
You may recognize Bloodhouse from the majority of my answers in the Coast’s Best of Music survey, but if you didn’t catch my personal ballot, please click the handy highlighted link to transport yourself to a shack in the woods swirling with pot smoke and fantasy hockey league stats. They are playing a show on […]
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The Gideons take to the streets: Oxford Street double album release this Friday at the Khyber
Free love with the Gideons The Gideons bid you all farewell this week (well, there will be one last New Year’s bash for you to drown your sorrows at), but they aren’t leaving you empty handed. They have a limited 150 copies of their vinyl only double LP, Oxford Street, the band is also giving […]
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Bloodhouse cut it short
Alexander Mitchell (Tomcat Combat) started Bloodhouse in the winter of 2008, when he was living outside of the city and bored. “I had never composed songs before so it was nice to be able to develop a catalogue of super-short songs. I am in no way a guitar player so the simpler the song, the […]