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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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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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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No Problem (New Music 2016)
“Our biggest problem is that I’m too funny, it’s hard for everyone to concentrate,” says Daniel Crowther, songwriter and singer of Halifax four-piece No Problem, which just finished a tour to Ontario, played Flourish Festival and put out a first full-length, The Honestly Hour. “My biggest problem is listening to other people chew,” says Mitchell […]
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Laurenn Marchand (New Music 2016)
“I do write a lot about myself, but I love writing story songs,” says folk songwriter Laurenn Marchand, a graduate of music from St. FX and music therapy at Acadia. “Working as a music therapist outside of performance, I have the opportunity to engage with a lot of older people and I love writing songs […]
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Strongboy (New Music 2016)
“It’s groovy, wacky and noisy in the right places,” says Brett Jarret, vocalist and guitarist of lazy pop indie-rock band Strongboy. Along with Seamus O’Neill, Alex Sheppard and Tyler Popwell, the four best friends from Cape Breton are anything but traditional Island fare, with their modern indie-pop flourishes and jizz-jazzy reverbs. Strongboy is currently working […]
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Willem Paynter (New Music 2016)
After playing bass as a hired gun with almost every gigging jazz musician in the Maritimes, St. FX jazz graduate Willem Paynter released City Grit, his debut record of original music (and one jazz standard), in December. “It can be considered hard-bop, a direct descendent of bebop, but there’s a lot of funk, groove, blues […]