Gold Winner Diminished Fifth Records Silver Winner Sonic Records Bronze Winner Acadian Embassy D5R head honcho Josh Hogan has been plugging away on his metal grind for a while, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed, by the voters in this survey especially. “It’s a huge honour for the fifth year in a row to be voted […]
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ECMA 2011 Nominees Announced
Complete list below. Take a look, give high-fives to your favorites, etc.Congrats! ECMA 2011 MUSIC & INDUSTRY AWARD NOMINEES|MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS: Alternative Recording of the Year Pathological Lovers – Calling all FavoursRacoon Bandit — CampcraftRuth Minnikin – Depend on ThisRyan MacGrath – Cooper Hatch ParisSlowcoaster – The Darkest of DiscosWintersleep – New Inheritors Blues Recording of the Year John Campbelljohn – Good to GoMatt Andersen – PiggybackRoss Neilsen & The Sufferin’ Bastards — RedemptionScott Parsons – Live at Mahogany HallThe Dungaree Brothers with The Hupman Brothers Band – The South Mountain Swamp Rock OperaThom Swift – Blue Sky Day Children’s
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Best Record Label
“We’ve been steadily growing, but the bottom line is that we’re still young,” says Josh Hogan. Though Diminished Fifth is still a young label, its name has quickly become synonymous with the best in east coast metal, including our Loudest Band winner Black Moor. For now, it’s Hogan running D5R, with partners who deal in […]
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Halifax cognoscenti talk about genres/bands they’re excited to see in Halifax these days
Secret Colours HOT MONEY RECORDS: Mike WrightI’ve been feeling really excited about bands from Halifax lately, there seem to be a lot of motivated people recording and releasing. Some bands I can’t wait to hear more from are Bloodhouse, Cold Warps, Bad Vibrations (Husband + Knife, Air/Fire), The Lodge, Gamma Gamma Rays, Cat Bag, Dog […]
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Decade in review: music scene, not a machine
Ten years is an awfully long period of time to cover, at least in the life of the average Halifax musician. Because of our diverse scene, turnover is high—Halifax could be named the call centre of Canadian music scenes. From the end of the 1990s’ “new Seattle” to a new mecca for weird punk, local […]
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Pick up Black Moor’s The Conquering Saturday at Monte’s
Dartmouth’s metal moguls Black Moor release their long-awaited album, The Conquering, at Monte’s Bar and Grill this Saturday ($6adv/$8door, 10pm. With Orchid’s Curse and Death Valley Driver). “I really can’t even express how stoked we are to finally get this album out to the public,” says Rob Nickerson (bass). The Conquering is being released through […]
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Black Moor on Diminished Fifth Records
Nova Scotian thrashers Black Moor plan to release their much anticipated new album The Conquering on Diminished Fifth Records. The album is slated to come out Tuesday, August 25. Black Moor recently won the Molson Canadian Rocks Battle of the Bands in Nova Scotia and were much-supported finalists in the regional contest to open for […]