1. Catherine Martin Series: The Spirit of Annie Mae: Tonight (Wednesday, July 25) at 7, there will be a screening of Martin’s documentary about Anna Mae Aquash, who was the highest ranking woman in the American Indian Movement. Part of the Snapshot exhibit at the Khyber, this is definitely a must-see at the Museum of […]
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AGNS’ Children’s Festival Celebrates Music and Art
http://www.partneringfirstsolutions.ca drumming workshops! This Sunday, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia will be combining a variety of musical and artistic activities for the kiddies as part of their Children’s Festival celebrating International Children’s Day. The 10th annual gallery-wide festival is titled “Art Beat” and will explore how music and rhythm make us creative. A diverse […]
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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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LLTQ Music Sampler
Whoa, it’s almost time for Long Live the Queen. The festival organizers have once again put together a mix tape of songs by fest participants for your listening/downloading enjoyment. The Chitz, Crosss, D’EON, Doldrums, Envision, Gianna Lauren, Mayor McCa, Old Man Luedecke, The Prospector’s Union, Rattail, Rebekah Higgs, Rituals, Silly Kissers, Sister, The Taste, and Brandon Dramatic have all contributed songs. You can download the sampler here – password is “longlive2011.” Additional hot tip: If you need more of The Chitz, they’ve made their entire discography available for download here.
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Juliette Lewis is Coming
her + gilbert grape = best couple It is my natural inclination to ruthlessly mock actors and actresses who also “make music” (Minnie Driver? Billy Bob Thorton? Instant hilarity!) but for some reason I can’t do it with Juliette Lewis. It might have something to do with the fact that some of her songs with her rock band, the Licks, are kind of good. Witness the video below. While there is no doubt the video itself is completely ridiculous, it also shows that she has a good raspy kinda-rock voice. She also seems really weird. Hooray! She’ll be at the
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Four winter stars
Gianna Lauren Gianna Lauren is made for winter, or so she says. “Months’ worth of armchair time, reading and drinking tea,” she says. “The winter season forces you to relax and get creative with yourself.” On her album Fist Through a Heart, Lauren is a bit of a mystery. She’s part wallflower, part rocker, all […]
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John K. Samson loves his Winnipeg
A< relationship to a city is complicated, a matter of love and hate. This, John K. Samson knows well. Examining his own city, Winnipeg—and with that lens, the archetypal Canadian city—has been a career-spanning project of The Weakerthans founder and singer and now solo artist, releasing late last year his first in a suite of […]
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R.E.M.
R.E.M. remembers with this two-disc live album (plus DVD), recorded during a five-night stand at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in 2007, before the release and tour for the outstanding Accelerate. Along with strong, strident versions of the new songs, they dig deep into album tracks from the first decade of the band, especially the […]
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The Gideons
Holy shit, The Gideons! The Halifax quintet’s spirited, joyful double album Oxford Street is perhaps the most ambitious local endeavour of the year—and the most successful. They have tethered their fun messiness without sacrificing any exuberance. It’s almost stressful finding a favourite song because you’ll have so many. “I Will Take You To The Ivory […]
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Super Shad
In an age where Paris Hilton wins her celebrity with poorly filmed pornography and you need a reality TV show to become a rock star, it is refreshing to meet a man whose art speaks for itself. To truly understand the greatness of Shad, come out to the Paragon on Thursday and watch as the […]
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Smokin’ bluegrass
The band, made up of Amy Lounder (fiddle, vocals), Ben Sichel (guitar, vocals), Jason Dionne (percussion, vocals), Dave Ron (mandolin, vocals) and Graham Kerr (double bass, fingertaps), normally plays for contra dances—a style where dancers line up parallel to each other and execute dance steps as instructed by a caller, with a live band to […]
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Fun with Fantods
Unsatisfied with their previous three studio albums, The Fantods lugged recording equipment through subzero temperatures and slushy puddles down stairs to the Blue Moon Bistro last January to record their latest album, Ride the Moose, during a free show. “It was just surprising how a live recording could be exactly what we wanted,” says drummer […]