Second World Collective official launch w/Keys N Krates, gLAdiator, Sleepy Tom Saturday, January 24 at 9pm Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $35 www.secondworldcollective.com Toronto’s Keys N Krates walks the line between rap and trap, and that’s mostly because it’s not easy to describe what type of music they play. A live band playing electronic on […]
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In the Dead of Winter 2015
With three nights (and one afternoon) of gentle shows to ease the pain of a 5pm sunset, the ninth annual In the Dead of Winter Festival comes when you need it most. Get your tickets while you can and read our features on Alana Yorke, Owen Pallett and musician’s picks of the festival. CLICK HERE […]
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In their Prine
Christmas in Prison: A Tribute to John Prine Saturday, December 27, 7pm King’s College Chapel 6350 Coburg Road $10 Sunday, December 28, 8:30pm The Carleton 1685 Argyle Street $10 adv/$15 door “It was based on this John Prine meltdown thing, it’d be late-night, three o’clock in the morning and we’d all see: ‘Anyone got a […]
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Rich Aucoin wants to believe
“In times like this, I want to be a believer,” sings Rich Aucoin on the second track of Ephemeral, his second LP and one of the best records of 2014. Over 50 people and three choirs contributed to the album, which was recorded in Montreal, Toronto and Halifax and which also merges the energy of […]
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TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2014
picks by David Dahms Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 (Sony) Big K.R.I.T. Cadillactica (Universal) Cadillactica is a planet in a solar system near Earth’s. It was created by the 808. Big K.R.I.T is both supreme god and an everyman. He created this world and gave the people free will. Bass is the universal […]
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Montauk via Fort Mac
“I’ve been slightly intoxicated and requested ‘Barrett’s Privateers’ before,” says Cape Breton-born Fort McMurray transplant Carman MacDonald. “What can I say? It happens.” That’s not to say it happens often. For MacDonald, waves of homesickness aren’t as common as you’d think. An amateur bodybuilder, metal vocalist for the band Montauk and plumber who has made […]
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HMC’s something borrowed
For more info on how to contribute to the library, visit thehmc.ca. In 1872, Irish conductor Patrick Gilmore led a mammoth ensemble of 2000 instrumentalists to commemorate the end of the Franco-Prussian war, a spectacle that was at that time the largest gathering of musicians in recorded history. In a cavernous basketball court-turned-concert hall on […]
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Jenn Grant’s star power
Jenn Grant December 2-4, 8pm The Carleton Music Bar & Grill, 1685 Argyle Street $20/$15 “I wanted to make an album that had some subtleties and groove, and I also wanted it to be a really enjoyable listening experience for people, so it’s been really enjoyable to play it,” says Jenn Grant, one of Halifax’s […]
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Always Neverlove
Buck 65 Saturday, November 29 Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $27/$32 Buck 65’s new album, Neverlove, features raspy shrieked choruses and raw rhymes about divorce—and that’s only on the opening track. Beginning with “Gates of Hell,” the Mount Uniacke-bred MC, AKA Rich Terfry, howls his lyrics, thanks to a friend who recommended scream therapy for […]
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Where we practice: The Brood
WHO THEY ARE Seamus Erskine, Billy Taylor-Habib and Siobhan Martin brought their Zappa-influenced experimental sound to Halifax from Toronto in November 2013 and promptly recorded an EP, the profoundly prog All Debit No Credit, with Joel Ryerson. Adding Matt Gallant on drums for live shows, The Brood became Casino Nova Scotia’s band-in-residence after winning a […]
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La Ribera
2014 SOCAN Songwriting Award winner Alejandra Ribera’s music career is a tale of slow-burning success. After releasing her demo, Navigator, in 2009, she was discovered by CBC during a stint as artist-in-residence at The Cameron House. It took several years for her debut full length, La Boca (Pheromone Recordings), produced by Jean Massicotte, to be […]
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Howse of love
Musician Roger Howse has been a staple on stages in Halifax for years, burning up blues riffs and providing the soundtrack for many whiskey-soaked evenings. But like any good blues musician, Howse’s life has had some trouble. Coping with depression, anxiety and physical illness, including a hand injury that inhibited his masterful slide playing, Howse […]