Lea Bertucci w/Taral Naik, Daniel MacNeil Friday, February 16, 7:30pm The Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis Street $20/pwyc/free under 19 It would be a fallacy to call composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Lea Bertucci merely a musician, because she’s so much more. “When people ask me what I do I say I’m an […]
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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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OBEY CONVENTION 5!
May 31 to June 3, Halifax turns into a beautiful cacophony of damaged music and art thanks to DIVORCE Records‘ OBEY Convention. The fifth year of the outsider music festival includes New York’s electro-pop futurist Gary War (Sacred Bones/Spectral Spools), San Francisco’s acoustic guitar master Bill Orcutt (Edition Mego, Palilalia), and from New York, pop-noise […]
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Download The Free Obey Sampler
nan goldinThis photo, “French Chris on Convertible” has nothing to do with OBEY whatsoever but if you’re lucky, you might end the weekend looking like French Chris. The Obey Convention kicks off today with my favorite local band Bad Vibrations 7″ release show with Fuck Montreal, L/P and Moncton punks The Robins, who haven’t played in Halifax since the ’80s. Prepare yourself with this free sampler.
