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Four years after moving to Quebec City, Mary Beth Carty is returning to Halifax to release a CD with her (romantic and musical) partner Gabriel F. Ouellette. Carty brings the Bette and Ouellette brings the Wallet to Bette & Wallet, a bilingual duo driven by accordion, violin and Ouellette’s stomping feet. Carty (The Johnson Sisters) […]

Dichotomy, duality, twofold—there is something about the power of two. Christina Martin has tapped into this division on her sophomore album, Two Hearts. She celebrates the release on May 30 at FRED. “The title track ‘Two Hearts’ is specifically about having faith on a confusing journey to find that type of love that makes you […]

When Nadja arrive in Halifax on Friday, May 23 (with Vancouver’s Shearing Pinx) as part of the Obey Convention music festival, it will mark the first time the lauded and well-travelled Toronto ambient doom-noise duo has appeared in this city. Made up of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff, Nadja started off as Baker’s solo studio […]

Over the centuries, Paris has inspired many great thinkers—Simone de Beauvoir, Gertrude Stein and T.S. Eliot. Recently,Canadian songwriters such as Feist, Hawksley Workman and Sarah Slean have been drawn to its omnipresent glow. Slean blames the City of Light for her latest effort, The Baroness. She’ll share her secrets and reasoning at the Rebecca Cohn […]

Matt King is looking forward to eating better this time around when he and the other fellows in dd/mm/yyyy go on tour.The drummer and his bandmates are piling into a minivan and driving across the continent as they hit up the west and east coasts of Canada and the United States, including an all-ages show […]

Dean Fertita has done a lot in his musical lifetime. He founded The Waxwings, a Detroit rock group whose song “Fragile Girl” was covered by fellow Motor city maniacs The White Stripes. He’s also toured as a member of Jack White’s “other band,” The Raconteurs. But, he says, nothing compares to his current assignment as […]

Over the past four years, Rob Dyer has grown Skate 4 Cancer from a skateboard trip inspired by Terry Fox to a music tour that has featured City and Colour and Protest the Hero. While on tour, Dyer gives talks at high schools and Flash presentations during concerts about the importance of disease prevention through […]

“I wish I’d had this CD out a year ago,” says Pat Deighan, on the phone from Charlottetown, PEI. He’s referring to his new record, In a Fever, In a Dream, which he debuted in his home province last Saturday. He’s bringing it to The Seahorse Tavern on Saturday night. In a Fever, In a […]

Apparently Iceland is not that far removed from Halifax. According to Plants and Animals’s lead vocalist and guitarist, Warren Spicer, the country with the chilly name has weather like Halifax in December. His Montreal-based band is back in North American waters after playing Iceland Airwaves, a music festival in Reykjavik. “It was like summer camp. […]

Chris Luedecke is a little concerned that his lyrical affection for bacon might be his epitaph. He can imagine the news anchor announcing, “As Old Man Luedecke once said , ‘If I’m not mistaken, the answer is bacon.’” That concern is but one of the inspirations keeping Luedecke writing new material, though he’s not avoiding […]

Buck 65 is feeling a little scared at the moment. On the phone from his home in Toronto, the Mount Uniacke native is on a brief tour stop before returning to Halifax to perform with Symphony Nova Scotia on April 18. The gig is part of the symphony’s popular Maritime Pop series. “It’s totally insane,” […]

Growing up to be like our parents isn’t necessarily something children dream of. The inevitable moment when we realize there’s more of our parents in our make-up than we’d care to admit is usually more burdensome than inspirational. On his 2004 album, Feelin’ Kinda Patton, comedian Patton Oswalt has a bit about his preferred style […]