Music Festivals

“I’m really superstitious,” says Jennah Barry. “If some little weird thing is going on in the day or someone walks downstairs or if I’m around someone, or I’m around the wrong person, I’ll stop. Solo, alone. Because that’s important to me—if I can’t play the songs solo I won’t be comfortable playing them at all.” […]

“The majority of our album is tortured, yeah. I think that’s fair to say.”   Nick Vallee keeps it real while describing his band, Folly and the Hunter’s upcoming album Tragic Care. The new LP builds upon its sophomore effort Residents‘ indie-folk roots. Now signed to Outside Music (Jill Barber, Sloan, The Besnard Lakes), get […]

Too often the idea of a folk musician conjures up a sullen, road-weary traveller, filtering life’s injustices through cigarette-scorched songs. This is not the case with Winnipeg’s JP Hoe. Though the young singer-songwriter is influenced by the greats (“Bob, Neil and Joni put an acoustic guitar in my hand,” he says), Hoe has carved out […]

The Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman is working, she promises. The main page of her site features the cover of her last critically acclaimed album, All of it was Mine with two sentences underneath: “Still out on You’ve Changed Records. Making another record, don’t worry.” But much like doting mothers who don’t believe that winter coat […]

w/INSTRUMENTS Friday, October 19, St. Matthew’s Church, 1479 Barrington Street, 8pm, $25 The Yamantaka // Sonic Titan story begins in much the same way it continues today: in the shared space between music and art. “The first time I met Alaska, we were in art school, in this interdisciplinary class, and she had built this […]

w/Billie Dre and the Poor Boys, The Belle Comedians, The Novaks Friday, October 19 at The Marquee Club, 2037 Gottingen Street, 9:30pm Deer Tick got labeled with the “alt-country” moniker early in its career, but the band’s real sound, most would argue, is the rock and roll of its raucous, alcohol-fuelled live shows. “It can […]

w/Stratejackets, Hip Club Groove, Cool Blue Halo Saturday, October 20 at The Marquee Club, 2037 Gottingen Street, 9:30pm Remember staying up for MuchEast on Sunday nights, thumb hovering over the Record button on your VCR in case a favourite video came on? Remember buying seven inches at Sam’s on Barrington or Dischord on Granville, reading […]

w/The Group Sound, Cold Warps, Black Lips Saturday, October 20 at Olympic Community Hall, 2304 Hunter Street, 8pm, $25 Technology is a bitch, and no one knows that better than Monomyth. Their new tape, a hotly anticipated cluster of plastic, electromagnetic tape and pop, has hit a minor snag. “The tape is being delayed due […]

w/Barlow, Code Orange Kids, Ceremony and secret guest Saturday, October 20 at The Pavilion, 5816 Cogswell Street, 5:30pm, $15 Bane takes you right back to the (somewhat earnest) days of your youth, when you were fitter, more attractive, healthier, way angrier and only needed three chords for the rest of your life. Unlike your lazy […]

w/Vixens, Word on the Street, Napalm Raid Saturday, October 20 at Michael’s Bar and Grill, 6100 Young Street, 10pm, $15 Career Suicide’s last Halifax visit was raucous and unforgettable, resulting in a bit of broken glass, a lot of hoarse vocal chords and a long-lasting feeling of punk satisfaction. For a band that’s been around […]