Gold Winner Rose Cousins Silver Winner Kim Harris Bronze Winner Quiet Parade “Maybe you can feel all the feelings in the songs when it’s quieter, you can feel them to the fullest—my songs have a lot of feelings,” Cousins muses about her second-year-in-a-row gold win for Best Artist To Enjoy Quietly. She’s “avoiding packing for […]
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Quiet Parade’s holiday playlist
The industrious elves in Quiet Parade are putting out a Christmas EP, Christmas Through the Fog, on December 2, and celebrating this fact with a release show December 3 (7:30pm doors, 8pm start at the Timber Lounge, 2712 Agricola Street. $7. With guest Norma MacDonald). You may be only three advent doors in, but the […]
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Quiet Parade breaks out the fog rock
Members of Halifax’s Quiet Parade have difficulty defining their sound—and that’s how they like it. “Often, the term that I give our band is ‘fog rock,’” says frontperson and lyricist Trevor Murphy in a phone interview ahead of Thursday’s IDOW show. The group mixes sad and hopeful lyrics with airy instrumentals to create a sound […]
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Listen to our playlist full of In the Dead of Winter artists
The Coast’s IN THE DEAD OF WINTER Playlist WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO MEET IN DREAMS? by TYLER MESSICK Loyalty by The Weather Station Even (single) by Dark for Dark Days Of Heaven by Steven Lambke Windows – Single by Gianna Lauren Quiet Parade by Quiet Parade People by The Burning Hell Big Volcano, Small […]
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Best Artist / Band To Enjoy Quietly
Gold Winner Jenn Grant Silver Winner Quiet Parade Bronze Winner Kim Harris
 “Thanks for this special treat award,” says Jenn Grant. “You are correct! I’m not a super-loud singer, I like my monitors loud to hear myself, but I like my rehearsals to be really, really quiet, and this is a rare delicacy, like tiramisu […]
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Introducing The Acadian Embassy
In the midst of a pretty shitty week for Halifax’s music community, it’s nice to see new ventures rise from the ashes. Trevor Murphy and Josh “Pinky” Pothier are both staples of the scene, as well as longtime roommates/bandmates. In the wake of the demise of their band, The Establishment, the pair decided to launch […]
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TONIGHT: Nick Cave, MC5 and Marilyn Manson
I don’t think this photo is sexy in the least. KNUCKLE BITE! The Fantods are doing a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds tribute this Thursday at Gus’ (along with The Grass as the MC5 and Quiet Parade doing Marilyn Manson.) Nick Cave in any incarnation is sort of like catnip for me—-he makes me feel wild and roll around a lot on the floor, mewling. I will be there, up front, singing with full-throated and embarrassing passion. You should be too.
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Fall music review
September Releases York Redoubt, s/t (Noyes/Hot Money) After a coast-to-coast summer tour, including a coveted slot at Calgary’s Sled Island Festival, York Redoubt releases its self-titled full-length. Recorded by uber-engineers Charles Austin and Dave Ewenson, this fantastic album is full of sonic surprises, melding noise, harmonies and ragged lo-fi goodness. September 5 at The Seahorse […]