For the past six years, Chantal Kreviazuk took a break from her role as one of Canada’s foremost singer-songwriters. Instead, she was busy penning hits for the likes of Drake and Carrie Underwood—all while raising her three sons and getting lost in the joys of motherhood that she says bring new authenticity into her life. […]
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Walrus brings home a new EP
The members of Halifax’s Walrus are wedged into a cafe booth that’s almost shaking with laughter. Jordan Murphy, the group’s drummer, is talking about the time one of their teenage band practices got a little too rowdy. “Remember the time we broke dad’s guitar and blamed Keith? For sure we weren’t taking the heat on […]
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Top 12 ways to rock the weekend
12. Green/Environmental › Halifax Seed Celebrates 150 Years. Friday, June 3-Saturday June 4. Halifax Seed celebrates 150 years in business with a two-day birthday party full of workshops, demos, snacks and cake. 11. Summer Festivals › 10th Annual Lebanese Cedar Festival. Thursday, June 2-Sunday, June 5. The Lebanese Cedar Festival is four full days of Lebanese food, music, church tours, […]
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12 ways to have an awesome weekend
It’s a rough-and-tumble weekend with roller derby, feminist punk, Monster Jam and wrestling on the go. Get out and play–but consider wearing kneepads. 12. OBEY Convention › Nadja, Sound of the Mountain, Cloaked Figure. Thursday, May 26, 7:30pm. Toronto-grown, Berlin-based dreamsludge duo Nadja juxtapose elements of shoegaze, metal, ambient music and doom for a transcendental […]
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A dozen awesome ways to spend your Victoria Day weekend
Whether you’re after a new tattoo, chamber music or a parrot’s birthday party this Victoria Day weekend, The Coast has got you covered. This handy guide includes a dozen things to get out to see and do. 12. Sports › Scotiabank Blue Nose Marathon. May 20-22 Huff and puff, but cross the finish line! This […]
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Your Coast-approved guide to an awesome weekend
10. DJ › Cosplay Dance Party. Saturday, May 14, 10pm. This monthly dance party is the geekiest, freakiest fete around with cyborgs, aliens, Pokemon and anime characters bumping and grinding. 9. Spring Festivals › East Coast Guitar Festival. Saturday, May 14. The East Coast Guitar Festival is back with all the strumming, shredding and noodling […]
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Your top 10 awesome weekend events
Snow showers may have put a damper on this week, but the weekend’s looking hot as hell. 10. Live Music › Russian Roulette IV. Friday, April 29, 9pm. In-Flight Safety’s John Mullane hosts this randomly-ordered rock roster. Set times are determined by spinning the big wheel, leaving bands scrambling for the stage. This iteration features […]
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Top 10 reasons to leave the house this weekend
10. 2016 Starfish Student Art Awards. Thursday, April 21, 7-9pm. The Starfish Student Art Awards celebrate the excellence of NSCAD’s best and brightest, incorporating an art exhibition, glitzy gala and art sale of student works. Of the 10 student finalists, only one will emerge the Starfish grand prize winner. 9. Smartphone Film Festival. Friday, April […]
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New EP from Halifax’s “multi-race rainbow band” Century Egg
This morning, Halifax’s newest indie-pop/mandopop band Century Egg released Mountain God, a four-track EP of rock songs gorgeously sung in both Mandarin and English. Fronted by illustrator and video game designer Shane Keyu Song—with Nick Dourado (Special Costello) on guitar, Tri Le (Surveillance) on drums and Robert Drisdelle on bass—the band’s aesthetics and these four tracks […]
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Manifest destiny: NSCC music business students strut their stuff
“The Halifax music industry is overflowing with incredible, underrated musicians who are yet to be discovered,” says Emma Cassidy, one of the 21 students in this year’s edition of the Nova Scotia Community College‘s Music Business Program. Tonight at The Marquee and The Seahorse (2037 Gottingen Street, 10pm, $8/$5), students in the program are putting on […]
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Justin McGrath (Walrus) interviews Kurt Inder
Today for The Scene Blog, I’ve asked Justin McGrath (Walrus, The Age) to interview Kurt Inder, the frontman of the Halifax pop-noodle band of the same name. Indebted to the lo-fi jazz-jizz sounds of Mac DeMarco and beyond, I first saw Kurt Inder last summer at The Khyber, featuring one of our favourite drummers Bianca Palmer (Vulva Culture) and […]
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Reverse engineering Buck 65
Seven years ago, Buck 65 and Symphony Nova Scotia delivered a legendary concert of orchestral hip-hop. They’re plotting another this weekend, and The Coast caught up with Buck 65 to chat about how he’s been prepping and if that night seven years ago can possibly be topped. How did you decide what new songs to […]