On December 26, the first puck drops in the 2023 International Ice Hockey Federation men’s World Junior Championship, co-hosted by Halifax and Moncton, New Brunswick. Less than four weeks from now, the Maritimes will welcome fans and players from around the world, and millions of Canadians across the country will engage in the storied holiday […]
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Zaum town
Zaum Saturday December 9, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $12 The experimental doom duo Zaum is turning up the lights and bringing some friends on stage to wrap up a year of globe-trotting. Zaum has travelled the world in support of Eidolon, an album with two sprawling, dark, ambient and meditative tracks that […]
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Revolution now
Author and musician Jason Murray decided to write A Distorted Revolution—his part-memoir, part-rock bio about Moncton’s own Eric’s Trip—after seeing a poster of the band in Sydney, Australia on the wall of a record store, and talking to the staff about their love of the band from his own hometown. “After I left I started […]
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Horn tootin’
By day he’s our Senior Production Designer, but feed Loukas Crowther after midnight and he becomes Loukas Stilldrunk (not Lookas, as the video may otherwise suggest), DJ to the stars. Last weekend he went to Moncton for the RedBull Thre3style qualifiers with T-Woo, IV, Plaeboi and more. It looked awesome. Here’s a wee bit of […]
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Lady Gaga In Moncton?
my hair is like eggs. A former Coast co-worker and reputed Lady Gaga enthusiast Jordan Smith (hi Jordan) posted a link to his Facebook titled “Lady Gaga in Moncton Today??” The blog he linked to features two videos that seem to suggest that Ms. Germanotta herself was strolling through the Moncton airport today with two […]
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The Rebirth of Pervert
Pervert “Pervert was the only band I knew that didn’t have a Myspace,” says Kyle MacDonald. He’s the newest addition to the Moncton powergrunge ensemble, currently emerging from a yearlong hiatus. As a stalwart member of the Moncton music scene, MacDonald can lovingly trace the band’s history back to 2008 when it formed from the […]
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U2 comes to Moncton
BONO HUNGRY Oh hi guys. Happy Monday! So a number of sources have confirmed today that U2 is indeed playing Magnetic Hill on July 30th. And yep, The Arcade Fire are opening. Unfortunately pretty much all the hotels in Moncton are booked (people began booking when the rumours began circulating last week) so you should just go all Matt Foley on this business and park your van down by the river for the evening. gotta go get my frickin’ parkin’ spot! In an interesting but totally unrelated note, the dude who invented Le Blogotechque (the beautiful off-the-cuff band performances filmed
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Charmed by Kamalas
Playing the catchiest pop punk going in the Maritimes right now, Moncton’s The Kamalas come to Halifax fresh from a Quebec and Ontario tour, to release their self-titled debut album—following their enormously catchy demo from 2008—on Saturday at Club 1668 with ECT, Cuban Assassins and Dunce Club ($6, 10pm). Made up of Elle Shapiro (guitar), […]
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Moncton’s Messtival won’t tear up the Common
Myles Deck and the Fuzz are no strangers to messiness Photo: Rachel Rossiter Moncton has a good thing going on with outdoor shows. No one seems to put up a fuss and people can get as messy as they like. Which is why the Messtival on August 29 to 30 is going to be so […]
