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April Assault VI emerges from the broken, burning earth this weekend to lay waste to Dartmouth’s unsuspecting masses and raise money for cancer research at the same time. Ten bands over two days are ready to pummel your soul with their dark rituals, including the Best of Music’s winners Black Moor and Orchid’s Curse, who […]

“I don’t know if I have any ancient tone secrets,” says Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi on the phone from London. “But we basically went in and did it like the early days.” Iommi’s discussing the recording of Black Sabbath’s latest album, 13, with producer Rick Rubin. “He saw us doing the album basically like the […]

On April 4, guitar superhero Yellow Jacket Avenger (Geoffrey Pye) will play The Seahorse exactly six years after a Seahorse show in 2008, proving that, yes, time is a flat circle. With Chris Pennell (Joel Plaskett Emergency) and Nathan Doucet (Heaven for Real), Yellow Jacket’s revolution (his first Halifax gig since 2011) also brings a […]

The critically acclaimed Whitby, Ontario band Protest The Hero sounds like eight or nine classically trained honeybees playing fingerpick guitar solos at the same time. Sometimes one of the bees is also wailing and sometimes one of the bees is shouting or dying. The intricate, hardcore influenced brand of metal will be on display during […]

It’s pouring outside, but all seven members of Dub Kartel happily pile into a small room with a long table, all smiles, maybe or maybe not hungover. Tonight is the video release for “PayDay”–directed by Jeff Miller, featuring a day in the life of percussionist Badger Stout, struggling to cobble together his rent for vocalist/roommate […]

“I was into music since I was a kid, listening to all the rappers, especially Biggie, watching Michael Jackson videos. I always wanted to be on stage and be that guy,” says Daniel “Thrillah” Kane, the man behind the best local single, the sublime “Drop That” with collaborator Matty Boh, and your pick for best […]

Magda Giannikou is a Greek woman, who sings in French, who went to school in Boston and lives in New York. Her band members come from Argentina and Japan. The music she composes, that they make together as Banda Magda, is sweet, twee, densely arranged jaunty other-worldly pop, the kind of thing you can imagine […]

“You just gotta be tired and ready to snooze,” says Nigel Chapman, one of the masterminds behind Halifax and Montreal’s Nap Eyes, “A good nap can be the best.” After a year of tinkering, Nap Eyes releases the full length Whine of the Mystic on Montreal’s Plastic Factory Records on March 25. Releasing EPs since […]

As part of JazzEast’s upcoming Out Like a Lion festival, Gottingen Street’s The Nook will play host to the E.S.T. Tribute Band, a three-man effort dedicated to covering and re-interpreting the sounds of the late Swedish group the Esbjörn Svensson Trio. “It’s funny to be doing this tribute concert to E.S.T. because no one knows […]