From the out-to-please-nobody energy of staying-in anthem “I Need To Go Home” to the brute squall that is “You’re Not 23 Anymore”, Mobina Galore doesn’t give a fuck what you think. What do drummer Marcia Hanson and guitarist Jenna Priestner care about? Crafting punched-up rock songs they describe as “vocally aggressive power chord punk.” The result […]
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LISTEN TO THIS: DK and Ghettosocks deliver golden-age hip hop vibes with “Reflections”
A blue sky, dotted with cumulus clouds, spins lazily by overhead, as if you’re out for a summer drive with your best friends—or you suddenly found your arms were replaced by wings and you needed to test ‘em out. Ghettosocks (real name Darren Pyper), the venerable Halifax MC, comes into view, towering over the frame. […]
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A feast of Transfiguration Day’s tunes
Transfiguration Day at King’s Chapel Sunday, August 6, 7:30pm King’s College Chapel, 6350 Coburg Road free This coming weekend, the members of Transfiguration Day mark their first anniversary of performing together as a musical group. The name comes from the Feast of the Transfiguration: A Christian festival celebrated on August 6, commemorating the transfiguration of […]
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Westvilladelphia, born and raised
If you zipped through our New Music playlist with ease, we have a little something extra for your ears. Andrew Johnson—a Westville-born hip hop artist who goes by the name Anewbis—just launched his debut album. Johnson first hit the stage last September, opening for Quake Matthews and Kayo at The Commune in New Glasgow. Johnson’s […]
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Listen to this year’s New Music
Update: Apparently there’s so much new music happening in Halifax, it broke the internet. Or at least the massive list of bands and embedded songs is so info-packed, it’s really good at breaking web browsers. Phone-based browsers especially. So we’ve added some options to get you into our annual New Music Issue as smoothly as […]
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Whoa, that’s a lot of music: New Music 2017 mapped out
What are music genres, anyway? Well in this instance, they’re a handy way to lump together the more-than-100 artists from the 2017 New Music Issue into a beautiful A Beautiful Mind-style map. Related Stories
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Find your new favourite musician: 101 new local acts to see and hear
Let’s make a promise. Let’s promise to see one/35/all 101 of the new projects from this epic new music list this year. Want to see these new acts mapped out by genre? Check it. You’ve got lots of time—365 days, and at least some of those days are weekends. After all, the sheer creativity and […]
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Perfect for reading on a phone, the text of 101 New Music Issue acts
Let’s make a promise. Let’s promise to see one/35/all 101 of the new projects from this epic new music list this year. Want to see these new acts mapped out by genre? Check it. You’ve got lots of time—365 days, and at least some of those days are weekends. After all, the sheer creativity and […]
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Hello Delaware (New Music 2016)
This is what inspires Dana Beeler, the vocalist and guitarist of new rock-based outfit Hello Delaware: “Shitty dudes, shitty breakups and t-shirts with fun sayings on them. I was sick of being pigeonholed as a sad-sack songwriter,” she says of her days performing as Dana Beeler, onstage with a guitar. “But I’m not sad, I’m […]
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Boogie Boys (New Music 2016)
“Me and Steve wanted to start something poppy but still have it be punk and fast,” says guitarist Cody Googoo (Alienation, Unreal Thought) of his collaborator Steve Earle. Joined by Bloodhouse’s Alex Mitchell (vocals), Justin Crowe (drums) and Adam LeDrew (bass, formerly Walrus), Booji Boys released an energetic post-punk demo of six songs last month. […]
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Cabot (New Music 2016)
As a member of the Halifax Music Co-op, Wesley Smith approached fellow member and vocalist Julia Cunningham once he launched his electronic music project, Cabot, with electronic producer Brant Hunter, also known as Feels (a member of the Murmurs arts and music collective). “I knew I wanted to work with a female singer, so I […]
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Century Egg (New Music 2016)
Over coffee and snacks in the room where they recorded their debut EP Mountain God, the four members of Mandarin-pop indie-rock band Century Egg show me how to eat a Tim Tam Slam. Just take the chocolate-coated biscuit, make a straw by biting both ends, slurp your coffee through it and eat it all at once. Like […]