Print these posters and put them up today. Illustration Mike Holmes
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Beyond measure
The truly great rock stars possess a particular type of intensity. It’s as if those who are capable of making thousands of spectators swoon at their feet are meant to act a little differently than the rest of the populace, by their own rules. Emily Haines, of the acclaimed band Metric, is one of those […]
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Folk remedies
Billy Bragg is fresh from a dip in the sea, and ready to talk. Not a huge surprise—the British musician is as famous for his humourous, jagged political riffs as he is for charmingly poetic folk songs infused with genuine punk sensibility. Now he’s ready to talk about a new project. After returning home from […]
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Collective class
It’s early September, and by all accounts The Hourglass Class should be no more. When the band formed four months ago to perform a last-minute show, it was with the assumption that its lifespan would be limited, due to several members’ intentions to leave the city in the fall. When the show was a success […]
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Majestic mystery tour
Brian O’Reilly is showing off what he calls his “apartment.” Standing in the kitchen of Just Friends collective co-founders Dave Ewenson and Brent Randall, Their Majesties’ frontman points out a sleeping bag rolled up at one end of the kitchen pantry. “That’s my bedroom,” he says. “That’s the computer room, that’s the living room”—an unplugged […]
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Rose is Rose
Rose Cousins feels like throwing up. Although she has years of experience under her belt, she’s feeling a bit queasy with all that’s going on in her life surrounding the upcoming release of her first full-length album, If You Were for Me. “It’s exciting but it’s also overwhelming,” the 29-year-old singer-songwriter says. “One, with the […]
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Rogue wave
The last time Luke Doucet was spotted among the streets of his hometown was during the Junos frenzy. Now the handsomely boyish troubadour returns for a solo stint at Stage 9 on August 26. “It certainly will be a less chaotic affair than the Junos, though that was a good chaos,” says Doucet, calling from […]
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Alternative CKDUniverse
This year CKDU turns 20. Two decades of FM broadcasting after a start on closed-circuit radio hooked up to Dalhousie University residences. Like most campus/community stations across Canada, CKDU lasts because of volunteers. Each September, with the flood of new students on campus, people keep making the climb to the fourth floor of Dalhousie University’s […]
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Making the band
Breaking into any music scene, to the uninitiated, is like inventing the wheel. Meeting people, finding gigs, booking studios and getting press takes a lot of time and energy, especially if a person is not familiar with the region. Luckily, Halifax is the hub of the Maritime scene, with a great music community and plenty […]
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On the road again
It’s inevitable that a singer-songwriter from Winnipeg will have to get used to being on the road in order to further his or her career. Of course, travelling to new places is bound to turn up some strange situations, especially when a journalist is trying to track you down for a last minute interview. “I’m […]
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No compromises
The last song on NOFX’s latest full-length, Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing, begins with: “We’re the band with our own label/That’s money under the table, that’s answering to no one/But still, other bands just love to hate us/Talking shit behind us, but smiling to our face.” NOFX is a band that writes its own ticket. It’s […]
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Stance up
Fuck The Stance. The slogan has been showing up on curb-sides and mail boxes around the city. Directed at Halifax-based rockers The Stance, it would seem the up and coming band has found some vocal opposition right out of the gate. “Someone else made it, they don’t like us,” says singer Mark MacAulay. “It’s so […]