In 2005, Chad Peck (Kestrels, We Need Secrets) founded Noyes Records, now based just outside of Truro. Since then, Noyes has released music from some of the best indie bands of all genres, from Montreal’s Play Guitar to Austin’s Ringo Deathstarr. Peck celebrates the anniversary with greatest hits tape, Come on Feel the Noyes, and […]
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See Bonesaw
“Crapshoot” is a pretty fair and diplomatic way of describing work in the service industry, especially so when there’s a strong possibility your boss will leaf through the local alt-weekly and read an article about your band. “You have those days,” says Bonesaw guitarist Sam Beeley, “where you just want to come home and sit […]
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Find you in the cypher
Last March, Martez Wiggins, AKA Woozy Blanks, looked around the cozy space of Alteregos on Gottingen Street and realized it was the perfect spot to bring together HRM’s hip-hop communities through freestyle rap events known as cyphers. With DJ and producer Lindell Smith, an engineer at Centreline Studio in Uniacke Square, the duo’s monthly R.A.W. […]
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Counting Crows
Adam Duritz reckons you have a 50 to 60 percent chance of hearing “Round Here” or “Mr. Jones” at tonight’s show. The Counting Crows leader reveals the seven-piece has nearly 90 songs in rotation on its cross-Canada tour, ending this weekend in St. John’s, so deep cuts are just as likely as the hits to […]
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Bye bye Billie Dre and the Poor Boys
Pour out a little donair sauce for Billie Dre and the Poor Boys this weekend—the Halifax rock trio is calling it quits. After releasing Garlic Fingers and following their friends TWRP and We’re Doomed! to Toronto last year, the high-energy outfit—singer-guitarist William Dray, bassist Corey Henderson and drummer Dylan Ryan—is slowing to a natural stop. […]
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The Spot shines
Halifax has a notoriously hard climate for all-ages music fans, and when music and art are your lifeline to mental health, finding a safe space with understanding people becomes crucial. The Spot, run by Youth Art Connection and Connections Halifax with space donated by the city, is a free program offered to local priority youth, […]
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Where I work: Gianna Lauren
WHO ARE YOU? An observer, a people-person, coffee nut, wisecracker, audiophile and I’m scared of stepping on sewer grates. When I was in my late teens I reached this harmony with myself, a clarity of being, so to speak, and suddenly understood deep-down who I was. And I feel lucky for that. But years later […]
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Desi Gordon’s expanding acoustic vibes
For the last few years, singer-songwriter Desi Gordon has been toiling away on the south shore writing love tunes between tours as a vocalist for fellow shore sweetheart Jennah Barry. On Saturday, Gordon’s songs make their Halifax debut with intense, ’80s-inspired instrumentation by Jay Crocker (Ghostkeeper) and Dice E. Parks (Joyful Talk), which take her […]
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Arrhythmia nation
Hip-hop and spoken word artist Hermitofthewoods might not be the first artist who springs to mind for improvised jazz, but that’s part of what excites jazz musicians Tim Crofts, Norm Adams and D’Arcy Gray about their upcoming collaboration, Arrhythmia, the final concert of suddenlyLISTEN’s 2014/15 main series. “Every year I look for interesting artists that […]
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Hands of the sacred
It’s been 24 years since setar player Kiya Tabassian, famous for his skill on the Persian instrument, met his world-renowned mentor: master of the spiked-fiddle, the kamancheh, Kayhan Kalhor. Their training would only last one year, but “He always stayed as a master for me, as a model for me,” says Tabassian. Now, he’ll have […]
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Just SPEW it
“Anything that pisses us off will inspire new material. From our own destruction of our environment for economic gains, televangelists like Peter Popoff or the fact that Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is probably going to make money. But [we’re] just saying it how we see it, not being preachy, it’s up to you to […]
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Space Age time
“We certainly love a good melody,” says The Space Age’s Andy Patil. “But we really love the urgency and immediacy of heavier genres.” With Greg Fry (The Heavy Blinkers) and Roger Nelson, The Space Age celebrates a new vinyl seven-inch on Friday at Gus’ Pub, the band’s first release since 2011. Produced by AA Wallace […]