Let’s make a promise. Let’s promise to see one/35/all 101 of the new projects from this epic new music list this year. Want to see these new acts mapped out by genre? Check it. You’ve got lots of time—365 days, and at least some of those days are weekends. After all, the sheer creativity and […]
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Afraaz Mulji: Piano prodigy
Worlds Apart: Afraaz Mulji Saturday, June 17 at 7pm Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, 6199 Chebucto Road $25 ceciliaconcerts.ca If it makes noise, chances are Afraaz Mulji can play it. Now 18, the Tanzanian-born musician took up the tabla (a type of Indian drum) at age three. These days, he focuses on percussion as well […]
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Noisography’s perfect 10
Tiffany Naugler and Dan Nightingale would “bend over backwards” for music in Halifax. They are the co-founders of the blog and media company Noisography, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Before smartphones and social media, Naugler and Nightingale were lugging cameras to shows, hoping to capture a candid moment to share with fans online. […]
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Walrus levels up with Family Hangover
Family Hangover Friday, June 9 walrustheband.bandcamp.com The rock band Walrus, which makes woozy, trippy throwback music, has been building its recorded output steadily for the past five years. The quartet started small, song by song, with split tapes, expanded to the EP format with Glam Returns in 2014, followed by another four songs a year […]
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The beat of Mobius Percussion
Mobius Percussion Thursday, June 1 at 7pm Sir James Dunn Theatre, 6101 University Avenue $35 The Mobius Percussion group is often described as a chamber music quartet, but to hear them perform is to know they don’t fit squarely into any box. “We are all over the map,” says member Mika Godbole. The quartet, which […]
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Revolution now
Author and musician Jason Murray decided to write A Distorted Revolution—his part-memoir, part-rock bio about Moncton’s own Eric’s Trip—after seeing a poster of the band in Sydney, Australia on the wall of a record store, and talking to the staff about their love of the band from his own hometown. “After I left I started […]
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Sa-Roc with you
Sa-Roc w/Ghettosocks, Uncle Fester, Shevy Price, Realeyez, Kxng Wooz, Iyari, DJ Anderoc, DJ Fadzwa Friday, June 9 at 10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $9 After a seemingly endless winter and spring, you no doubt need a blast of heat that warms you from head to toe, lifts your spirits and makes you say, “hell […]
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OBEY bites
Laraaji Here’s something you need to experience: Twinkling, cyclical zither music from the world’s most interesting man, Laraaji—Eno collaborator, comedian, actor, New York fixture, multi-instrumentalist, meditation master, cool person. Sunday, 7:30pm, Fort Massey United Church; Laughter Meditation Workshop Sunday, 2pm, Halifax Central Library, pre-registration required 902-490-5700 OBABY with The Magic Project This year’s installment of […]
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Track by track: Rabies, What You Know About Me
Rabies w/Geil Friday, May 26, 6pm Halifax North Memorial Library garage 2285 Gottingen Street free, all-ages Rabies’ infectious pop can’t be denied. Rachel Fry’s powerful voice, mixed with harmonies from bassist Bria Cherise Miller and synth player Jeremy Costello, with a backing beat by Fry’s Surveillance bandmate Dave Burns, creates a heavenly mixture—satisfyingly dramatic and lots […]
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OBEY X marks the spot
At the beginning of last year’s OBEY Convention, current OBEY creative director Andrew Patterson stood in front of a crowd gathered in the Halifax Central Library to deliver a set of opening remarks. Among punks, seniors, library babies and intrigued onlookers, Patterson shared a few words about his experience teaching poetry workshops to high school […]
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MAJE in charge
MAJE w/Pelada, FET.NAT, DJ Shyshaya Saturday, May 27, 10pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $20/$25 Hip hop artist Michael Alexander Jerome Earle, AKA MAJE, is having a year. After a brief period of laying low, MAJE is back in full force. With an album on the horizon, a laundry list of upcoming collaborations and […]
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Senyawa’s chemical compound
“A literal translation of the word senyawa would be ‘chemical compound’. It’s used to describe when two or more different elements combine and create something new. In this case it is my partner Wukir Suryadi and I who are the two different chemical elements. He stands for nature—which is represented by his bamboo instrument—and I […]
