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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4 Important Halifax Artists According to Aux.Tv
So this popped up on my Twitter feed today (I’m tweeting like a motherfucker these days because I’m giving up Facebook, which is like giving up smoking and becoming addicted to jelly beans) – Aux.tv has unveiled their “4 Halifax Bands You Should Check Out” list. The people that they have gotten behind are Rich […]
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Seth Smith’s New Problems
Dog Day frontman Seth Smith has made a solo album and he is sharing it with us through an online stream. Pretty neat. You can listen here. But wait! There’s more! A video for the song “Transformer” awaits your hungry eyes below. It is romantic and sort of sad and sweet.
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Slate Pacific makes waves
Funswick Slate Pacific makes waves Fredericton’s Slate Pacific found shelter in creating their latest musical harbour, the EP Safe Passage. It’s “the idea that everything ends up OK,” says guitarist/vocalist Logan Hawkes. “That there’s a perpetual connection, responsibility even, between the living and the dead—the dead and the dying. The title was meant to be […]
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So Rick White and the Superfantastics walk into a schoolhouse…
As we speak, the Superfantastics are in Rick White‘s home studio in Elder, Ontario (recording home of Dog Day‘s Elder Schoolhouse LP) making some sweet music. How will the Superfantastic’s sunny pop sensibilities match up with White’s dark, ethereal tendencies? Pretty well, it appears. “So far, these recordings are exactly what i always thought the […]
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Halifax Scene Recipe Zine gets in the kitchen with some of your favourite locals
If you blinked, you may have missed Kelly Zwicker’s Halifax Scene Recipe Zine at the Halifax Zine Fair during HPX. The zine, filled with recipes from excellent locals like Dog Day, Windom Earle, Envision, BA Johnston, York Redoubt and more, sold out quickly, but there are more on the way. The zine was a labour […]
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HPX: Saturday night is for hometown heros, ghosts and rocking out
Running between folk and rock and rainstorms on the last night of the 2009 Pop Explosion.
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Dog Day 12″ pre order on now
Click here for all the info. Divorce Records have just announced a pre-order for the new Dog Day 12″ recorded by Rick White. It’s an edition of 400, so you can be one of the lucky few.
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Fall music review
September Releases York Redoubt, s/t (Noyes/Hot Money) After a coast-to-coast summer tour, including a coveted slot at Calgary’s Sled Island Festival, York Redoubt releases its self-titled full-length. Recorded by uber-engineers Charles Austin and Dave Ewenson, this fantastic album is full of sonic surprises, melding noise, harmonies and ragged lo-fi goodness. September 5 at The Seahorse […]
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Rick White’s noise
When Rick White steps onto a stage, the first thing you notice is his guitar. It’s a well-worn acoustic with a cosmic scene adorning its body—acrylic paint swirls from the sound hole, spreading brilliantly outward. As White and his guitar settle into a chair at the main tent before his suppertime set at this year’s […]
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Dog Day focuses on new album, Concentration
A shrink-wrapped copy of Concentration sits on the table in the kitchen rented by Nancy Urich and Seth Smith, one half of Dog Day, the record’s author. Its release is in a few days and not all of the band, all of whom are here, have seen it. Urich banters with Smith, her husband, about […]
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Dog Day
Though necessary in life, an act of concentration carries with it the risk of obsession and overreaction. We are each the author of our own doing and undoing. Be aware or beware what happens if you’re not. This is what Dog Day’s second full-length, Concentration, tells us. And the band tells it in more simply […]
