Lush psychedelic soundscapes. Funky melodies. Lyrics describing heartbreak and healing. Mat Elliott’s newest EP has it all. The Truro native has found inspiration across the musical spectrum for his debut record, from Tom Mirsch to Still Woozy. And yet, South Endings is truly all his own as the singer-songwriter reminiscences of a past relationship […]
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The best albums of 2022: Jah’Mila’s Roots Girl
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. The average theatre stage is 35 feet deep, but for singer-songwriter […]
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The best albums of 2022: Maura Whitman’s Introspection
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. Imagine if Alessia Cara swapped some of the smoke from her […]
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The best albums of 2022: Gina Burgess’s Isnow
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. There is a strain of music criticism that says nothing is […]
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The best albums of 2022: Pillow Fite’s Flutter
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. Imagine if Tegan and Sara left the land of slick pop, […]
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The best albums of 2022: Aquakultre’s Don’t Trip
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. First, there’s the irresistible boom-bap of the backbeat tapping at your […]
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The best albums of 2022: Willie Stratton’s Drugstore Dreamin’
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. I’m not alone in my love of Drugstore Dreamin’, the retro, […]
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The best albums of 2022: Washing Machine’s Cheat The Pattern
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. A group of Halifax music scenesters who also populate the lineups of […]
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The best albums of 2022: Pale Ache’s Mourning as a Metaphor
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. There’s a scene in the later half of season three of […]
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The best albums of 2022: Blue Lobelia’s Resilient Moon
It’s been a big year in local music, with countless new releases from newcomers and scene veterans alike. As we look back on 2022, The Coast is naming its top 10 albums of the year (in no particular order). Peep the full list here. Imagine if Lana Del Rey lived in a lighthouse, basing her […]
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Obsolete no longer
After ten years on Agricola Street, Obsolete Records was booted from its ramshackle storefront last fall in the most anticlimactic way possible. “Someone was parking out back, and drove into some support beam,” says Obsolete owner Ian Fraser. “And the building’s owner decided to just tear it all down.” The news wasn’t a total surprise: […]
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Angel Bat Dawid soars
Angel Bat Dawid w/NAT Chantel, New Hermitage Sat Jan 25, 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $20/PWYC When she was young, Angel Bat Dawid went with her father to watch the 1984 Mozart biopic Amadeus. It was there that everything clicked for her: she wanted to be a musician. “I remember sitting in […]
