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 […]
OBEY Convention
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OBEY Convention announces first wave of 2019 lineup
Promising “a four-day narrative of radical sounding, a forward-thinking festival like no other,” OBEY rings in year 12 from May 30 to June 2 in a host of venues around town. The date announcement also featured a teaser of its lineup, which includes New York’s Eartheater, who has a Robyn aesthetic and—according to the fest— […]
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OBEY Convention XI reveals full roster
OBEY Convention is always a head trip. The three-day fest, held the weekend of May 24, calls itself “Atlantic Canada’s most adventurous music festival”—a title it lives up to beautifully as it repeatedly exposes Halifax to sounds newly invented, or that few of us knew existed. This week, the fest announced the full list of […]
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Wade through Nadah El Shazly’s marshland
Nadah El Shazly w/JOYFULTALK Saturday, March 31, 8:30pm Garrison Brewery, 1149 Marginal Road $20/pwyc When you have a debut album to release, how do you decide what direction to take? If you’re Cairo-based composer/singer Nadah El Shazly, the answer is simple: All of them. “Because it’s my first album, there are a lot of ideas […]
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OBEY Convention announces lineup
OBEY’s back to make your May long weekend wildly, wonderfully weird with sonic stylings like your ears have never heard before. The four-day sound and music fest boasts uber-dancable Kudro beats courtesy of Portugal’s Nídia, emotional catharsis with the energy-cleansing rhythms of duo ONO and classical lute playing by Chinese literati-inspired Liu Fang. Rounding out […]
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The year in music
Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals at Halifax Jazz Festival Watching Anderson .Paak, one of the hottest current R&B artists, alternate between jumping around the stage to hyping the crowd from behind a drum kit seemed too good to actually be happening in Halifax. The crowd ate it up, singing along with every word and […]
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A look back at OBEY X
Photographer Meg Yoshida was in OBEY Convention mode all weekend long, and we get to reap the benefits. Take a detailed trip down memory lane at the fun, wonderful and varied events that OBEY Convention’s 10th year provided. all photos by Meg Yoshida. Related Stories
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A look back at OBEY X
Photographer Meg Yoshida was in OBEY Convention mode all weekend long, and we get to reap the benefits. Take a detailed trip down memory lane at the fun, wonderful and varied events that OBEY Convention’s 10th year provided. all photos by Meg Yoshida.
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Ten unmissable weekend picks
10 Monster Jam Saturday // Sunday The jacked-up celebration of jacked-up trucks turns 25 this year, spending three days rolling around Scotia Speedworld with the biggest names in big trucks—like Grave-Digger, Northern Nightmare and Black Stallion. 9 Zomkeys comic book reading Saturday Hot off a debut at Ottawa Comiccon, comic writer Josh Stafford shares snippets […]
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Track by track: Rabies, What You Know About Me
Rabies w/Geil Friday, May 26, 6pm Halifax North Memorial Library garage 2285 Gottingen Street free, all-ages Rabies’ infectious pop can’t be denied. Rachel Fry’s powerful voice, mixed with harmonies from bassist Bria Cherise Miller and synth player Jeremy Costello, with a backing beat by Fry’s Surveillance bandmate Dave Burns, creates a heavenly mixture—satisfyingly dramatic and lots […]
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OBEY X marks the spot
At the beginning of last year’s OBEY Convention, current OBEY creative director Andrew Patterson stood in front of a crowd gathered in the Halifax Central Library to deliver a set of opening remarks. Among punks, seniors, library babies and intrigued onlookers, Patterson shared a few words about his experience teaching poetry workshops to high school […]
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MAJE in charge
MAJE w/Pelada, FET.NAT, DJ Shyshaya Saturday, May 27, 10pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $20/$25 Hip hop artist Michael Alexander Jerome Earle, AKA MAJE, is having a year. After a brief period of laying low, MAJE is back in full force. With an album on the horizon, a laundry list of upcoming collaborations and […]