Sam Wilson Groundless Apprehensions release Sunday, April 7, 6:30pm 1313 Hollis, 1313 Hollis Street $10 The jazz guitarist Sam Wilson, a St. FX music grad, is just 25 but she moves through music like an old soul. Her favourite guitarists are Americans like the octogenarian Kenny Burrell and the late Michael Hedges and Jim Hall; […]
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Canadian Club
Social Smokers Club releases The Woods w/No, It’s Fine., Good Dear Good and Sore Loser Friday, April 5, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $8 Social Smokers Club started off as a high school English project about a book. It’s led to songs and booked shows around the Maritimes. When guitarist William Robbins and […]
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Wintersleep covers ground
Wintersleep w/Moon Logic Saturday, March 30, 10pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $33 sonicconcerts.com A decade after the hit single “Weighty Ghost,” Wintersleep found itself with another massive hit on its hands with “Amerika,” from 2016’s The Great Detachment. But heading back into the studio to make the followup record, it was business as […]
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Villages’ trad pride
Villages w/Thomas Stajcer Friday, March 22, 7pm & 10pm Good Robot Brewing Company, 2736 Robie Street $20-$45 W hen the members of Mardeen left Cape Breton after high school and formed an indie-rock band, the music associated with their island home was the opposite of what they wanted to play. “We totally rebelled against traditional […]
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Ralph’s Good time
Ralph w/Scott Helman and Myles Castello Friday, March 22, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $33 W hat does it take to be labelled a “good girl?” If you ask Canadian pop star Ralph, currently on a nationwide tour with Scott Helman, it’s as simple as throwing on a cheap street-market charm with the […]
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Pledge allegiance to The Sorority
The Sorority w/Nausikaa, DJ Tranzishen Friday, March 8, 9pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15 adv/$20 door, eventbrite.com Though only a group since 2016, the story of hip hop outfit The Sorority has reached origin myth status: Four rappers—all seasoned solo acts—meet and perform together as part of an International Women’s Day cypher. The chemistry […]
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Unchained Melodies
Jon Samuel Dead Melodies release w/Museum Pieces, Shadow Folk Friday, February 1, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $6 In a world of single-use plastic, how do you make something that lasts? In an endless sea of music, how do you craft a song that’ll not only stand out, but stand the test of […]
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Sincerely, Dan Mangan
Dan Mangan w/Matt Holubowski Friday, January 24, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $39 adv/$44 show “When you’re making records you kind of just follow your gut. It happened to take me back in this direction that’s a little more direct, a little more sincere,” says Dan Mangan of his fifth, most tender album […]
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IDOW’s Songs of the times
In the Dead of Winter January 24-26 inthedeadofwinter.com In hindsight, the birth of the In the Dead of Winter festival in 2006 feels like a perfect storm of talent and timing. Heather Gibson hosted the first event at the Khyber Club on Barrington with Jill Barber, Rose Cousins, Amelia Curran and Jenn Grant—names that now […]
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Listening deep with Joe McPhee
“Possible, poetic, hypothesis—it’s all po.” Underground jazz legend Joe McPhee is listing a string of words connected through the phonetic sound “po”—a reminder, he says, of the creative possibilities of approaching the world from a slightly different angle. McPhee, 79, attributes the theory to the philosopher Edward De Bono, whose book Lateral Thinking: A Textbook […]
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In the air there’s a feeling of Villages
“A lot of people love it, and we love it for sure,” says Villages’ Matt Ellis, of a little holiday called Christmas. “It’s a vibe around this feeling, and what creates that feeling is the music. Aside from the music it’s celebrating and gathering.” Ellis and the rest of the Villages—his brother Travis, Jon Pearo […]
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Bend the River’s Long Night coming
Bend the River EP release show Thursday, December 6, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $10-$18 “He’s just got this energy—it’s really intense. He knows music really well, inside and out. He brings such a a history, it’s always there, right at the forefront of what he’s doing,” says Ronok Sarkar. “It was a […]
