Dog Day w/Shotgun Jimmie, The Skeletones Four, Reversing Falls, Old and Weird Friday, October 21, Gus’ Pub, 9pm, $10 Friday’s Pigeon Row Showcase is going to be a doozy. To celebrate the fifth year of being a rootin’-tootin’ promotin’ machine, Pigeon Row gathered some of their favourites to make a very sweet lineup. If you […]
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One Hundred Dollars’ story time
One Hundred Dollars believes in storytelling. For the past five years, the Toronto band has relayed the tales of troubled souls, urban decay and social inequity with a rich and heartfelt alt-country sensibility. The mind behind these stories is lead singer-lyricist Simone Schmidt, who first began composing songs for the band with musician Ian Russell […]
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That’s Rich
The release show of Rich Aucoin’s long-awaited We’re All Dying To Live is almost upon us, but there’s something else he’s been waiting nearly as long for. “I’ve had this bottle of pop in my fridge for like two years that I’ve been saving as a champagne sort of thing,” says Halifax’s effervescent king of […]
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Born again
I like the way electro-dance pop outfit Born Gold does things. Learning that the flamboyant electronica act (formerly named Gobble Gobble) is heading to Halifax for this year’s Pop Explosion, I discover that the group is unwilling to do interviews and generally works with journalists by providing them poems and horoscopes. Kind of an unorthodox […]
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House party
Bloodhouse is a band that makes you feel good about humanity. Alex Mitchell, Brendan Neima and Gabe Wallot-Beale are three buddies more interested in hanging out together than getting uptight about the business of being a band like a bunch of nerds. They started playing together as a two-piece in a hall 20 minutes outside […]
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BRAIDS get tighter
Imagine if buddies, and BRAIDS members, Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Austin Tufts, Katie Lee and Taylor Smith never decided to move their butts to from Calgary to Montreal. Their Polaris shortlisted experimental pop record Native Speaker wouldn’t have been Native Speaker and, maybe, it wouldn’t have even been on that list. “When we realized that we had […]
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Daily Picks: Friday
DOG DAY w/Shotgun Jimmie, The Skeletones Four, Reversing Falls, Old and Weird Friday, October 21, Gus’ Pub, 9pm, $10 Friday’s Pigeon Row Showcase is going to be a doozy. To celebrate the fifth year of being a rootin’-tootin’ promotin’ machine, Pigeon Row gathered some of their favourites to make a very sweet lineup. If you […]
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Sappyfest 2011, Day 3:
As the final day of this little festival commences, people recede into the shade under the only tree near the Town Bandstand where Toronto’s Lisa Bolzikovic begins quietly. The sky is intensely blue and the shade offers very little respite from the scorching sun. After a few sullen numbers unaccompanied, Bozikovic is backed by three […]
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Sappyfest 2011, Day 2:
Fair readers, I must admit, yesterday I was lead astray. I did not see all there was to see. But I swear, it’s not entirely my fault. Weekends such as this make itineraries entirely foolhardy. Either way, I do still feel like I got a full day of festival and then some, but I did […]
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Sappyfest 2011, Day 1:
I arrived in Sackville around 5:30pm; The highway was full of cars, and we spot a few familiar faces along the way and one back window sign proclaiming ‘Sappy-Dappy-Doo!’). With just enough time to head to the local liquor shop and to direct a few fellow passengers to a vacant lot to set up a […]
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Sappy Preamble:
What else could you possibly be doing aside from seeing Charles Bradley in Sackville, New Brunny?
Not much, really.
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The Pharcyde’s bizarre ride
Like most music nerds who make a profession on music created by other people, I studied music in high school, particularly jazz guitar. At the time, I didn’t really know any jazz musicians, or at least I thought I didn’t. That was until I started running through songs from some of the greats that I […]
