Washing Machine release w/Booji Boys, Surveillance, Valerie Thursday, April 5, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $7 Noel Macdonald would never say it, but Walk It Back, his first record with the new-wave inspired band Washing Machine, feels like a big deal. Macdonald has been playing in the local scene for years—with Moon, Long […]
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Wade through Nadah El Shazly’s marshland
Nadah El Shazly w/JOYFULTALK Saturday, March 31, 8:30pm Garrison Brewery, 1149 Marginal Road $20/pwyc When you have a debut album to release, how do you decide what direction to take? If you’re Cairo-based composer/singer Nadah El Shazly, the answer is simple: All of them. “Because it’s my first album, there are a lot of ideas […]
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The nature of Construction & Destruction
Construction & Destruction w/Julie Doiron, Jon McKiel Friday, March 30, 8pm Radstorm, 6050 Almon Street $10/pwyc Construction & Destruction might be among the most mythologized bands in this corner of the world, and it’s not hard to see why: For years, partners Colleen Collins and Dave Trenaman have been quietly making foggy, artful rock from […]
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Heaven for Real trips out with Live in Japan
Heaven for Real EP release w/Century Egg, Aquakultre Friday, March 30, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $10 Local experimental rock heroes Heaven For Real are emerging from a relatively quiet few months this week with a renewed energy and a brand-new tape, Live In Japan. The band, which currently features Mark Grundy, Scott […]
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Liam Corcoran builds Nevahland
Liam Corcoran w/Tyler Messick Friday, March 23, 10pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 Four years after the breakup of Charlottetown indie rock band Two Hours Traffic, frontperson Liam Corcoran tried something different for his debut solo album. “I’ve been writing songs since I was 14 and I’d become very sick of writing about myself,” […]
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Said the Whale’s song explosion
Into the Night Festival night two w/Said the Whale, The Town Heroes, Rain Over St. Ambrose and The Drug Rugs Saturday, March 17, 8:30pm Olympic Hall, 2304 Hunter Street $25-$45, tickethalifax.com When Vancouver’s Said the Whale headline the Into the Night festival on St. Patrick’s Day, it’ll be business as usual on a booze-soaked day […]
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Miesha Louie’s Girls trip
Miesha and the Spanks Thursday, March 15, 10pm Gus’ Pub, 2605 Agricola Street $Rockin for Dollar$ Monday, March 19, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street Miesha and the Spanks had already been on the road a week before their new album, Girls Girls Girls, even dropped. Released last Friday, it’s a 10-track blast of […]
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Rich Aucoin celebrates life
Rich Aucoin Hold EP release w/Chudi Harris Thursday, March 15, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gotttingen Street $15 After talking bit over the phone about his meditative songwriting method—a process influenced by his King’s philosophy degree—Rich Aucoin off-handedly sums up his artistic ethos in one succinct sentence: “You don’t have to wait around for a […]
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Moonwake is in the zone
Moonwake w/Aquakultre, Loveland Thursday, March 1, 9pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 For musician Braden Nelson, some of the most exciting sounds can emerge when people find themselves outside of their musical comfort zone. That was one of the premises behind his Asymmetry EP, which saw Nelson asking singers from a variety of genres […]
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Dean Jarvis, back home
African Nova Scotian Music Association awards show Saturday, February 24, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $15-$59 902-494-3820 People across the country celebrated as Toronto-born artist Alessia Cara won a Grammy last month. This month Nova Scotia will celebrate one of our own who was integral in that accomplishment, Cara’s music director Dean Jarvis. […]
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Lea Bertucci, sonic phenomenon
Lea Bertucci w/Taral Naik, Daniel MacNeil Friday, February 16, 7:30pm The Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis Street $20/pwyc/free under 19 It would be a fallacy to call composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Lea Bertucci merely a musician, because she’s so much more. “When people ask me what I do I say I’m an […]
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Hillsburn’s wilder heart
The town of Hillsburn is a tiny dot on the Bay of Fundy, outside Annapolis Royal, between two coves, Parkers and Delaps. Paul Aarntzen calls it “a little stretch of road” and it’s where he lived, “by myself with my dog for three years with no furniture,” after a wandering stretch in the US, living […]
