Haviah Mighty w/Just John x Dom Dias, Hua Li, Yohvn Blvck Sat Oct 26 The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street, 9-11pm $15/$20 “T he past year has been a bit of a blur,” says Brampton, Ontario’s Haviah Mighty—and if you’ve been paying attention to Canadian music in 2019, it’s abundantly clear why that might be […]
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Howling PUP
PUP w/Weakened Friends, OUTTACONTROLLER Fri Oct 25, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street Sold out Toronto four-piece punk outfit PUP is going to tear up the Marquee Ballroom at Halifax Pop Explosion, and we’re sorry you couldn’t get tickets. This Halifax stop on the Morbid Stuff tour will be the band’s third time playing […]
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Cassie Josephine is Only Half Blue, but all brilliant
Driftwood People w/Alexandria Maillot, Cassie Josephine & The Cry If I Want To’s Fri Oct 25, 8pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 C assie Josephine—the eponymous leader of Cassie Josephine & The Cry If I Want To’s—has a record both lovely and vulnerable in 2018’s Only Half Blue. Written in the months preceding her […]
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Walrus works it out
Diet Cig w/Walrus, Luna Li, Diamondtown Sat Oct 26, 9:15pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street C ool To Who, the latest full-length album from local band Walrus, opens with a soft, electronic beat that blossoms into warm synths that recall Soft Bulletin-era Flaming Lips in their simple spaciness. “Feels good to breathe again,” frontman […]
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Guy Paul Thibault’s trance to the top
W hen Guy Paul Thibault hits the stage, he goes into what can only be described as a self-induced trance. The singer-songwriter can crank out as many as 150 songs during a performance without stopping—not even for water. “I’m not big on taking breaks,” Thibault reflects on his extreme, if not dehydrating, commitment to giving his […]
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The Halifax Queer Ensemble is here to play
Since its inception just months ago, the Halifax Queer Ensemble has been on its come up, rise, ascension, crescendo—basically, doing very well. Having been chosen as the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, its success continues as the group of instrumentalists takes up space in the traditionally exclusive world of classical music. […]
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To a T.
T. Thomason w/Zamani, X Thu Oct 3, 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $12/$15 There’s a moment on track six of T. Thomason’s new, eponymous album that bobs across the listener’s consciousness. It is equal parts siren song and buyer beware. “Queen of hearts, I’m the King of Spades, always digging my own […]
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Radstorm forever
Some places are so special, an entire community forms around it. Radstorm is one of these places. A volunteer-run, not-for- profit all-ages community space, Radstorm has hosted wild and wonderful music, comedy, art and activist events—highlighting queer and youth-centred creative programs—for the past 15 years. Its resources include over 7000 zines in the Anchor Archive Zine Library […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Live music calendar
SEPTEMBER Vortex w/Enemy Designed, Ignightor Gus’ Pub, 2605 Agricola Street, $8, Sep 20,10pm Kids Losing Sleep w/Social Smokers Club, Izra Fitch The local four-piece Kids Losing Sleep calls its brand of Warped Tour-inspired punk “heartbreak you can dance to.” Gus’ Pub 2605 Agricola Street, $8, Sep 21, 10pm NAMU Prismatic Arts Festival brings this traditional […]
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Fall Art Preview: Devarrow contemplates adulthood versus #adulting
The questions pondered on the upcoming Devarrow album are more than just hashtag millennial problems. When indie folk singer-songwriter Graham Ereaux started recording songs for a new Devarrow LP, the original plan was to create a narrative-based record built around a person moving from small town to big city and the often conflicting concepts of […]
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Damhnait Doyle finds—and raises—her true voice
Damhnait Doyle & The Halifax All-Stars w/Opening Song Circle feat. Alejandro Escovedo, Catherine MacLellan, Matthew Sweet Fri, Aug 30, 8pm Sweet The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street Sweet $50 D amhnait Doyle is ready to reintroduce herself. The self-described “mid-level Canadian musician” has been at it since 1996, landing on Much Music in her mid-teens with […]
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The Maes continue to “fall head over heels, cart over wheels” for folk music
Phoebe Bridgers Tribute w/The Maes Thu Aug 29, 10:30pm Good Robot Brewing Co., 2736 Robie Street With harmonies as vast as the Outback sky, Australia’s The Maes trace a finger along the lines of ’70s folk: The new self-titled record by the now-duo of sisters Maggie and Elsie Rigby is, as Maggie puts it, “a […]
