Gold Winner Freeman’s Little New York, Sackville Silver Winner Oasis Bronze Winner Gottijam, Menz & Mollyz Bar Danny Banfield’s been making live music happen at Freeman’s for four years, but his open jam history dates back much further. “The seed of it was at the old North End Pub, the North End Jam from 2005 […]
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The best place to be in Halifax, each night of the week
A fun thing you’ll learn in your mandatory Psychology 101 course is that in your early 20s, your brain is super-soft—as impressionable as a Memory Foam mattress. You want to drink up as many experiences as life can give you—the same way a Memory Foam mattress will drink up any beer you spill on your […]
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Award-winning comedian Tom Hearn tells us a joke
Aug 16-17, 9pm Menz & Mollyz Bar, 2182 Gottingen Street $10/$12 We asked Toronto-based, Canadian Comedy Award-winning laugh-bringer Tom Hearn to tell us a good one before he brings his travelling solo sketch comedy show Slang to Menz & Mollyz this weekend. Hearn mentions the show sees Halifax drag queens Shayla Shenanigans, Brooke Rivers and […]
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Nyssa dials up the heat this Hot Girl Summer
Nyssa w/Loveland, Yohvn Blvck Wed, Aug 7, 9pm Menz & Mollyz Bar, 2182 Gottingen Street Rock and roll is not dead—at least when Nyssa is on stage. “I try to be more rock-and-roll on stage than soft-spoken,” says Nyssa Rosaleen, the solo star of the danceable glam rock project simply called Nyssa. “There’s a lot […]
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Nyssa dials up the heat this Hot Girl Summer
Nyssa w/Loveland, Yohvn Blvck Wed, Aug 7, 9pm Menz & Mollyz Bar, 2182 Gottingen Street Rock and roll is not dead—at least when Nyssa is on stage. “I try to be more rock-and-roll on stage than soft-spoken,” says Nyssa Rosaleen, the solo star of the danceable glam rock project simply called Nyssa. “There’s a lot […]
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Halifax, meet Hedwig
Just in time for Pride, Halifax audiences will have a chance to wig out and enjoy what Rolling Stone has dubbed “the best rock musical ever.” The Tony Award-winning Hedwig and the Angry Inch, written by John Cameron Mitchell with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, follows the story of Hedwig Robinson, a genderqueer singer […]
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Best Karaoke Night
Gold Winner Laurie the Guy at Lion’s Head Tavern Silver Winner Dave Smith at Oasis Bronze Winner DJ Master and DJ Bear 777 at Menz & Mollyz Bar The next time you go see Laurie The Guy (AKA Laurie Goulding), bring him a box of cookies, would ya? This is the sixth consecutive time the […]
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X-Plycit and Mackie are on the come-up
X-Plycit & Mackie 902 Lit Tour w/Stack Loot Divide, Kam Speech, Scence, The UnderDogs, Connor Moore, J-Pimpin, CHELL, Devon Paul Muzik Thursday, June 28, 8pm Menz & Mollyz, 2182 Gottingen Street $10 Halifax is going to be lit when rappers X-Plycit and Mackie take to the stage at Menz and Mollyz tonight, giving the city […]
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Chicago Producer RP Boo’s dancing drive
RP Boo w/Thrillah, EDDY/BUDI, DJ Goldilocks Friday, March 3, 10pm Menz & Mollyz Bar, 2182 Gottingen Street $20 OBEY Convention has been at the forefront of presenting underground music and art in Halifax for years, as each spring its namesake festival lines up artists that cross genre lines and push the boundaries of sound and […]
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Weekend Dads making it big in Europe, not here at home
Weekend Dads EP release party w/Crossed Wires, Dyscontrol and Noise Policy Friday, June 24, 10pm Menz & Molly Bar, 2182 Gottingen Street $5/$7 James Clobbertson, vocalist/bassist of Halifax’s punk-rock four piece The Weekend Dads, is sipping a large, inky-coloured Americano in a coffee shop. Dressed in a total rocker’s uniform—black jeans with a black t-shirt […]
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Marie Davidson, electro poet
“I find inspiration in my everyday life,” says Montreal composer, poet and synth-artist Marie Davidson. “I often take notes of thoughts I’ve had or things that people say to me. If you come close to me, you might end up in a song.” Since the release of her debut LP Perte d’identité in 2014, Davidson […]
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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 […]