This morning, Halifax’s newest indie-pop/mandopop band Century Egg released Mountain God, a four-track EP of rock songs gorgeously sung in both Mandarin and English. Fronted by illustrator and video game designer Shane Keyu Song—with Nick Dourado (Special Costello) on guitar, Tri Le (Surveillance) on drums and Robert Drisdelle on bass—the band’s aesthetics and these four tracks […]
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Video of the day: Cousins, “Mess”
Right in time for lunch, Cousins‘ newest video, for “Mess”, off the upcoming The Halls of Wickwire (May 13 on Hand Drawn Dracula), for your viewing pleasure. Directed by Neal Moignard, a dog eats a tongue in it. Now you have been warned. Related Stories
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Video of the day: COUSINS, “WHAT’S YOUR NAME?”
The video “WHAT’S YOUR NAME?” (from COUSINS’ upcoming LP The Halls Of Wickwire) evokes a lot of nostalgia, sweet summertime feelings of goofing off, causing a ruckus and getting a buzz on. Should you be shooting off fireworks willy-nilly in a bunker somewhere? Likely not, but you don’t own me, you’re not my real dad, […]
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NSMW: Friday night lights
Feeling sufficiently chagrined about missing the first day of Nova Scotia Music Week (a gal’s gotta work), Allison and I set out for Liverpool with a great travel companion, the writer, journalist and smooth radio voice, Stephanie Domet. I refrained from singing Beyoncé’s “Halo” at top volume in honour of Halo 4 being released, but […]
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Sappyfest Number Seven
This weekend, car loads of compatriots, wagons of wonderful merchants, vans full of families and campers full of campers made their way to Sackville, New Brunswick to take part in the seventh annual Sappyfest: an independent music festival that takes place over three days in the heart of the heart of the heart of the […]
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NXNE Day 2: Puffy Shoes
Woke up on Thursday feeling a little fuzzy, but there was another Cold Warps show at 2pm so there was no time to dither around, moaning. We headed down to JangBang Bar and Grill, a tiny little spot that serves Korean tacos. There we sat in a fog of booze sweat and found a clutch […]
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New Cousins video
Directed by Brendan Dunlop and featuring a bunch of folks living the dream and pretending to be Cousins, this great video for “Speech” will make you smile or die trying. COUSINS – Speech from Brendan Dunlop on Vimeo.
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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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Halifax heads to Sled Island
gianna lauren It’s officially summer touring season, with a whole cluster of Halifax bands headed all over which where. The latest event is Sled Island, which has been producing an increasingly bomb lineup of musical talent from across Canada and the world for about five years now. This year’s festival runs from June 22 – […]
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Cousins, Teenanger, Crocodiles
Saturday the Halifax Pop Explosion NXNE Showcase (Dance Movie, Glory Glory, Jon Mckiel and Cousins) went down in a wonderfully cold goth bar on Queen, The Velvet Underground. Dance Movie played to a mostly Haligonian crowd. I made only minimal mistakes on bass. Everyone else made no mistakes. I had great visits with family and […]
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HPX NXNE Showcase
Hi Toronto! Four great bands from Halifax are coming to play an NXNE show at the Velvet Underground (510 Queen St West) this Saturday, presented by the Halifax Pop Explosion. Dance Movie kicks off the night at 8pm, followed by Glory Glory (9pm) Jon McKiel (10pm) and Cousins (11pm). Many Halifax types will be in […]
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Friday Five: Pool Party Rock Steady
will james quall make a guest appearance in your weekend? The Scene and Heard Suggested Weekend Guide for May 6 -9: 1) Come home from work tonight, do your relaxing Friday thing, whatever it may be (drinking beer in the backyard, playing Call of Duty: Black Ops, writing in your diary, making dinner, snorting bath salts.) 2) Then put this song on. TIME TO FREAK. 3) Wake up the next morning and there’s weird cups all over your apartment with gross booze and ooze and wet fruit in them, your cat is hiding, and when you have a shower, a