Arts and Crafts have assembled a tour of Canada’s finest bearded musicians. Vancouver’s Dan Mangan and Blacksmith, Calgary’s Astral Swans, and Toronto’s Hayden are scruffily heading across the country to perform at the Rebecca Cohn February 18. Multiple Juno Award winner and twice listed Polaris Music Prize listed nominee Mangan has transformed his solo moniker […]
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CMW: Thanks for nothing, airplanes.
Canadian Music Week 2012 (now called Slacker Canadian Music Week, for a reason unknown to me) features a smorgasbord of local Halifax talent. Our hometown gals and guys done us proud, and I intended on bringing you proof of their accomplishments from the front lines. Friday was planned as such: 10:40 a.m. Arrival 12:00 p.m. […]
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Dan the man
A lot’s changed since the last time Dan Mangan rolled through Halifax. In October 2009, the gravelly-voiced singer was still pretty obscure. His sophomore album Nice, Nice, Very Nice had dropped only three months prior. And the fact that he came all the way from Vancouver for the Halifax Pop Explosion and sold out The […]
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Dan Mangan is Coming
yes, i’ll have what he’s having. Vancouver singer-songwriter, Polaris Prize-short-lister and general all-around babe-meister Dan Mangan will be bringing his charms to the Seahorse on April 22, much to the delight of many in the Coast offices and, I suspect, many others in this city. His last show in ’09 sold out! Don’t sleep on […]
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Hpx Night Four: Eddie Orso and Dan Mangan
Teddy bear Dan Mangan enthralls a packed Company House. I never thought I would see the Company House turn away patrons, and yet at capacity, with people packed shoulder to shoulder, they did so last night. It was by far the most surprising show of this year’s pop explosion. By the time Eddie Orso took […]