Gold Winner Like a Motorcycle Silver Winner Sleepshaker Bronze Winner Chebucto The proudly loud rock quartet Like a Motorcycle can’t talk right now, because it’s all the way across the country making the follow-up to the award-winning High Hopes. And not just with any old producer—the band has teamed up with Howard Redekopp, the big-time […]
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Best Social Media Presence By An Artist / Band
Gold Winner Neon Dreams Silver Winner The Town Heroes Bronze Winner Like a Motorcycle Neon Dreams used to have someone on their team whose job it was to document the trio for social media. That’s shifted recently. “This past year we’ve been wanting to make our social media look raw with less thought behind it,” […]
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Your 2017 Music Nova Scotia award winners
A post shared by Port Cities (@port_cities) on Nov 5, 2017 at 5:39pm PST Another Nova Scotia Music Week has come to a close after a wild weather weekend in Truro, where the roving annual event is in the middle of a four-year stay. Harmerrific Port Cities walked away the biggest winners, with five of […]
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Twelve sunny long weekend picks
12 The Red Turtle film screening Thursday Hope Blooms hosts this sweet, outdoor screening of the Oscar-nominated cartoon that follows a shipwrecked man’s life-changing encounter with a red turtle. 11 the WORKS Thursday // Friday // Saturday Doug Bamford, a NSCAD ceramics technician with over two decades of experience, dives into ceramic artists’ obsession with […]
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GroundSwell Music Festival hits the ground running
GroundSwell Music Festival Mar 16-18 Various times and locations (see listings below) The stars have aligned for this year’s GroundSwell Music Festival. Celtic-tinged rock landing on St. Patrick’s weekend? It’s too perfect. With three nights of big ticket shows and lots of genres on offer (from Ria Mae’s power-pop to roots music from Rawlins Cross), […]
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Like a Motorcycle’s homecoming
Like a Motorcycle w/Keith Doom and the Wrecking Crew, Endless Nameless Saturday, November 26 at 10pm Gus’ Pub, 2605 Agricola Street $9/$13 Halifax punk-rock band, Like A Motorcycle, is ending its first international tour in support of its debut album at Gus’ Pub & Grill on Saturday. This September, Like a Motorcycle’s Jillian Comeau, Kim […]
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Best Artist / Band Most Likely To Make It Big
Gold Winner Neon Dreams Silver Winner Like A Motorcycle Bronze Winner Mo Kenney “Woo! Woo! Woo! What an honour,” exclaims the producer for Neon Dreams, Corey LeRue. “It feels great to be recognized in your hometown. It just feels great! It’s such an amazing honour! Thank you everyone who voted.” Over the last couple of […]
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Best Artist / Band To Get Trashed To
Gold Winner Dub Kartel Silver Winner Like A Motorcycle Bronze Winner The Stanfields “Fuck yeah! This category has a special place in our hearts,” says the dance-hall band’s guitarist Richard McNeil. “I think it’s because we get so trashed that we encourage everyone to get trashed, too. We’re a party band.” The seven-person unit is […]
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Best Artist / Band To Turn Up Loud
Gold Winner Dumpster Mummy Silver Winner Like A Motorcycle Bronze Winner Doom Machine See page TK for more.
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Best Music Video
Gold Winner Cam Smith, “Mad Crack” Silver Winner Like A Motorcycle, “Hands” Bronze Winner The Town Heroes, “Take On The World” Based on the 1987 horror melt-movie Street Trash, directed by Dave Hung and shot mostly at Pro Skates, Cam Smith’s “Mad Crack” is a masterpiece in no-budget cinema, incorporating professional visual and special effects […]
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Best Rock Artist / Band
Gold Winner Matt Mays Silver Winner Like A Motorcycle Bronze Winner Gloryhound The longtime prince of the City of Lakes has won multiple awards for his true blue Nova Scotian rock and roll. “It’s so awesome to win this award,” Mays says from France, where he’s putting the final touches on his next album, catching […]
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Best Punk Artist / Band
Gold Winner Outtacontroller Silver Winner The Scoop Outs Bronze Winner Like A Motorcycle Quintessential Ramones fans Outtacontroller don’t hold back on the A-stances and high jumps. It makes sense, because if you’re banging out super fast minute-long punk gems, you’d better have energy to spare. Outtacontroller don’t skimp on that. “We think energy makes any […]