There are very few eternal truths in this world. You shouldn’t be a dick to animals, shows don’t start at 10pm and the internet is the shittiest place to hang out (thanks Be Bad). But there’s maybe one more beyond those: Truro has housed some of the most wildly inspiring, chaotic and punishing music this […]
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Get Transfixed Tonight
You may remember Matt Samways from the great, dead Truro noise band PIG. Tonight at Lost and Found he’ll be debuting a new project with Ian Phillips called TRANSFIXED. Basically he takes the parts I actually like about industrial music – hollow vocals and chugging tempos – and spreads them on a soft, minimal sound […]
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PIG NO MORE
“what’s kept you together all these years?” “stonehenge” For the past three years, PIG has been a lynchpin in Truro’s burgeoning music scene. The band, who sort of defy description—-Weird Canada calls them “adjective-punk,” which works for me—-experiment with drone and noise in a purely uncalculated and intuitive way. This becomes twice as scary when you realize most of them are just barely out of high school. When we heard the band was finished, we were bummed, but we also know that their sound and attitude will live on in other realms. We emailed Tyler Fleck, who confirms: “I think
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Montreal’s Barn Burner seek brewsky, fair maiden
Gordon Ball Da Burners Montreal’s Barn Burner ride into town on a wave of sick riffage for the Pop Explosion, and they guarantee you will be pulled into their undertow (October 20 at Gus’ Pub with PIG, Straight Reads the Line and Architects. 9:30pm, $8/$10). Kevin Keegan (guitar, vocals) paints a rather atmospheric picture into […]
