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Life is measured in more than the quantity of years spent on Earth. There are qualities to be considered too, says artist/producer Daniel Lanois, in a broad conversation on the phone from Los Angeles. “What wisdom comes your way and for what reasons, it’s not just age. It’s the blows along the way,” he says, […]

TUESDAY Emm Gryner The Music Room (6181 Lady Hammond), 9:30pm, $15 Emm Gryner is one of those musicians who can make people collapse from the power of her blinding, all-encompassing coolness. Most of you know bits and pieces of the Gryner lore: She started her own label at 23, she played keys in David Bowie’s […]

Andrew MacGregor’s been loving the last year he’s spent in Truemanville, a small community in Cumberland county that’s a short drive from the New Brunswick border. Chances are he’s the only experimental guitar slinger living there—let alone one to have recorded with a member of Sonic Youth and release a boatload of CD-Rs, LPs, CDs […]

You could say Justin Karas’ career in music was predestined. He bought his first keyboard—one he still uses when performing with Fall Horsie—with money saved from his career as a child model for Zellers catalogues. “I don’t know why I even mentioned that,” he says with a laugh, reflecting on his past career sporting the […]

After a turbulent year of touring, relocation and band reconstruction, The Grass are back in Dartmouth with a fresh perspective on their music, two talented new members and a much anticipated CD release: Rogue Waves.The Grass are a much different band than they were a year ago. After an unsuccessful move to Ottawa hindered their […]

There’s little sitting room in Peter Allen’s office on the fifth floor of the Dalhousie Arts Centre. The piano, a Yamaha C7, takes up most of the space, pinning desk with computer and a couple of chairs against the near wall. Besides teaching piano in Dalhousie’s music program, the Halifax-born-and-raised Allen is an accomplished composer […]

The scene: Guelph, July 2006. The Toronto mega-band Broken Social Scene is onstage at Hillside, the yearly music festival held at the Guelph Lake Conservation Area. I’m cold and tired after two shitty nights spent folded up in a friend’s pup tent like a lawn chair. Blinking and shuddering near the stage, I stare up […]

It’s hard to relive the thrill of witnessing the wild antics of born showman B.A. Johnston for the first time. He’s like James Brown on a shoestring budget, where the shoestring is re-used every gig. There are costume changes, funky aromas, pools of sweat, playful confrontations with the audience and spastic verging-on-rhythmic dance moves. And […]

Dartmouth is going to get down and dirty this weekend at the first Great Atlantic Blues & Beyond Festival, which brings together a whole lotta musicians from here and around the world, including big names like Edgar Winter and his brother Johnny. But if you’re in desperate need of soul, look no further than Bettye […]

Kathleen Edwards hasn’t spent much time in her garden this past summer. She’s been on the road since February with her latest, Asking for Flowers. She’ll plead for a few stemmed-petals at The Seahorse Tavern, with her special guest Jim Bryson, on September 15. “I’m a bit of a gardening freak,” says Edwards, calling from […]