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Mötley Crüe is evil. At least that’s what I thought when I first saw the band’s poster in a Circus magazine 20 years ago. The gritted-teeth poses, Mad Max-inspired leathers and blood-soaked satanic imagery frightened my young, Anglican Church-going mind, and I quickly retreated to the safe confines of a Bon Jovi article. My friend […]

Old Man Luedecke is a banjo-hammering songster who looks like Santa Claus might have in his late 20s. He’s very in touch with his roots. He just released his new record, Hinterland, and he’s gracing us with a CD release show at Ginger’s on Saturday, March 4.  “The new record has been in stores for […]

One glance at the man on stage—strange electronic noise-making boxes in front of him, frizzy curly hair in all directions—and it’s easy to understand why Todd Drootin, AKA Books on Tape, gets more than a few looks. It’s especially true once the sounds start. The cold and steady drum machine, the odd snippet from a […]

Reading the lavish amounts of positive press Toronto-based rock group From Fiction has been receiving around Southern Ontario, one can easily develop the impression the band is really something. And perhaps it is. Maybe the quartet is that band you’ve been waiting to rescue you from your musical doldrums. Maybe these guys will restore your […]

A dance floor filled with throbbing, sweaty and pink dancers. No, it’s not a case of food colouring exploding under the disco ball. It’s what organizers of the Chicks with Decks event want to see this weekend at Club Rain. The bill features the best female DJs in Atlantic Canada as well as national talent […]

As the season of discontent rolls through town, there is a bright spot—one that’s created not by a SAD therapy lamp, but through the sweet sound of voices. The In the Dead of Winter festival, running from February 17 to 19 at The Khyber Club, joins 18 artists who refuse to be bullied by one […]

The love song. It is the single most powerful form of expression in musical language. Don’t believe me? Case in point: Chris Martin, a lanky, crook-toothed Brit fresh out of university transformed into a sensitive heartthrob with “Yellow,” a cleverly sappy song that compared the colour of the stars to being in love. From your […]

At this point in time you could say Canadian song has reached a pinnacle—Leonard Cohen shedding tears as he considered his own journey up the tower of song during his recent induction in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. It was a lovely moment for a highly deserving artist and exemplar to younger artists everywhere. […]

Best Canadian Male MusicianBest Local Male Musician Best Local Album La De DaJoel Plaskett Joel Plaskett indirectly made a long-term investment to receive at least some Best of Music votes when he wrote “Love This Town,” a song about his love for his hometown Halifax. “It used to be the question, ‘Do you know Sloan?’” […]

Don’t feel bad if you don’t know about Andrea Curry. The shy, soft-spoken 25-year-old admits that she’s been under the radar on the local singer-songwriter scene. But that could change after the East Coast Music Awards take place later this month in Charlottetown. The Cape Breton-raised, Halifax-based musician is up for three awards: female artist […]

Gyms make a racket. Whirring machines, feet pounding, weights clanging and thudding on the floor, fans overhead. Few people notice unless they’re the few without the popular aural accessory, the digital music player. “I usually like to listen to more exciting music, stuff that pumps you up,” says Matt Conway, a 19-year-old kinesiology student at […]

The Halifax hard rock scene just got better. After a line-up shuffle, various part-time jobs to pay for recording and years of songwriting, the members of Big Game Hunt are set to unleash their debut of accomplished, riff-filled stoner rock, The Gods Drink Whiskey, on an unsuspecting public this Friday night. “The boy bands when […]