Ghettosocks and Muneshine (pictured above) are entering the town between the peaks with their new rap group—Twin Peaks. “We’ve completed recording and are in the process of mixing a 15-song rap album that loosely fuses David Lynch’s work (i.e. Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, etc.) with braggadocious rhymes, over an assortment of original […]
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Codapop Studios CD release
“When you say ‘Codapop,’ it’s like there’s a big question mark behind it,” says Tammy Milbury, the business developer of newly formed Codapop Studios, which is owned by Milbury’s partner, Doug Taylor. The studio, located in Taylor’s basement, was actually built two years ago but Milbury says it hasn’t been public until just this January. […]
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Postdata’s family ties
In summers, the Murphy family would drive from Yarmouth to Antigonish to visit the maternal grandparents. They piled into the station wagon and went from the bottom to the top of this province—its mainland, at least. “It was a bit of a drive,” recalls Paul Murphy from Montreal, where Wintersleep, the band for which he […]
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Sans AIDS at the Wardroom
Sans AIDS is Edmontonian Peter Sagar, playing lo-fi, mellow guitar and drums with an alluring bedroom-recording quality. The project originated last summer when Sagar’s other band, Outdoor Miners, a “noisier” group, was scheduled for a tour. “Our guitarist had to get surgery and we cancelled the tour. I was bored, so I started this,” he […]
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Bahamas’s island life
Afie Jurvanen is a big believer in happy accidents. He abides by the philosophy that nothing too good comes from trying too hard, and he’s managed to ride this laidback wave from the basements of Barrie, Ontario, to some of the music world’s biggest stages as a touring guitarist for Feist. Jurvanen, who’s also played […]
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Home companions: Construction & Deconstruction
Even though Construction & Deconstruction may bring to mind philosophical theories, the band’s name is more pragmatic. “We bought an old farmhouse in a hamlet of houses on the Bay of Fundy and have been fixing it up ever since,” says David Trenaman. “We’ve been righting it by moving it onto a foundation, adding and […]
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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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Rave review
With roughly 100 kids armed with Red Bull in a fume-filled military bunker, no one would confuse the January 30 rave at York Redoubt with a scene from Go. But for a party with near-fatal consequences, the Facebook group memorializing the rave has a surprisingly optimistic tone. “It was sketchy, yes it was dangerous, yes […]
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Watt and the Glory
As one of Halifax’s busiest producers, Andrew Watt has birthed many artists in this city. Backed by Glory Glory Man United, Watt’s new solo album release, First Day of Summer Life, reminds us this musical midwife makes his own music too. “I’ve worked with hundreds of musicians, many of them friends or almost family and […]
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Crazy for Carnaval
If your life’s been colourless and cold these February days, Saturday’s your chance to uncover any sequins and feathers you have tucked away and wear them to the sixth annual Brazilian Carnaval. It’s the third year Laura (Lulu) Healy is hosting the event (with help from volunteers, and added co-presenter JazzEast), as festival founders Paula […]
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Olympic medal music
Athletes train their entire lives to compete in the Olympics. While local musicians may not have the same sort of extensive physical training, they certainly have to make sure they are in shape to make the 6,148-kilometre stretch between Halifax and Vancouver. Instead of hopping on a plane, Jenn Grant and company—Kinley Dowling, Sean MacGillivray, […]
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Shauntay Grant: record breaker
Sometimes when you hear a voice, that voice sinks into your soul. That’s how it is with Shauntay Grant. This Halifax performer captivates an audience the moment she starts to perform. Grant’s no stranger to the public: She’s Halifax’s poet laureate, had shows on CBC Radio, performed her spoken word and music at venues across […]
