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Having spent nearly half of his life as a professional musician, Hayden knows a thing or two about life on the road—passing through the vast and varied communities of suburbs, cities, sleepy towns and the desolate miles in-between. The ever-longing Paul Hayden Desser (known simply as Hayden), recently returned from a European stint to be […]

Diana Ross. Michael Jackson. Gwen Stefani. They’re all artists who achieved success within a group and then leveraged that success to catapult themselves to superstardom. In-Flight Safety’s Daniel Ledwell is about to join the ranks of these performers. He drops his first solo record, Two Over Seven, on January 29, with a show the next […]

Kingston, Jamaica, can be a rough place, and the music industry there is no exception. It is, after all, where Peter Tosh once attempted to appropriate Keith Richard’s house in his absence, with the reggae legend phoning the rock legend to tell him, as the story goes: “Don’t come here, mon, I got my machine […]

Holy Fuck are an unorthodox band. There’s the name, the lack of lyrics, the improvised studio sessions and the revolving-door rhythm section (which has included members from stylistically divergent groups like Blue Rodeo and Wintersleep). And somehow, the band, playing Saturday at the Marquee, even found themselves touring as underground rapper Beans’s backing band. Though […]

Clearly, The Attic isn’t the first—and it’s certainly not the last—Halifax venue to shut down. The Halifax music scene is cyclical in nature and it’s quite possible that The Attic, an important part of that scene for almost a decade, became a casualty of one of its lulls.It was during one of those lulls that […]

Part marsupial, part herbivore: all koala. Montreal’s musical mastermind Eric San (AKA Kid Koala) is in the midst of a whirlwind tour, making pit-stops everywhere from Randwick, Australia to Bordeaux, France. Derived from Greek, the scientific name for koala is phascolarctos cinereus and translates to “pouch bear.” Kid Koala promises to bare all on January […]

Pianist and psychotherapist Marilyn Lerner merges her two professional pursuits in a show with the New Upstream Ensemble, premiering this weekend at the James Dunn Theatre. Lerner’s composition—combining written score and improvisation—is called Ding un Sich, a phrase taken from psychotherapy. Translated from German, the phrase means “the thing itself,” explains Lerner, from home in […]