Snotty Nose Rez Kids w/DJ Kookum, Lex Leosis Friday, May 24, 9pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15, showpass.com F rom the jump, Snotty Nose Rez Kids grab your ears and attention. Even the name of the British Columbia-based hip hop duo acts like a sharp finger-snap, making the listener confront their internalized racism the […]
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Pledge allegiance to The Sorority
The Sorority w/Nausikaa, DJ Tranzishen Friday, March 8, 9pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15 adv/$20 door, eventbrite.com Though only a group since 2016, the story of hip hop outfit The Sorority has reached origin myth status: Four rappers—all seasoned solo acts—meet and perform together as part of an International Women’s Day cypher. The chemistry […]
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Best Place To Dance
Gold Winner The Seahorse Tavern Silver Winner Reflections Cabaret Bronze Winner Midtown-Boomers Tavern & Lounge If you’ve never felt the ceiling of The Seahorse drip on your shoulder thanks to the condensation of hundreds of hot (literally) bodies dancing like nobody’s watching, you haven’t lived. The up-close-and-personal vibe of this cave-like bar has decades of […]
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Ms. Banks is on fire
Ms. Banks w/Beach Season, PLAYSW/MUSIC, Thrillah & Jay Mayne, Maje, Malcolm London, Devonteé Friday, October 20, 10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15 The rapper Ms. Banks comes with confidence and swagger all wrapped in a British accent. Her rhymes are politically charged, fully feminist and viciously delivered—disarmingly, thrillingly so. The south London woman Vice […]
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Sa-Roc with you
Sa-Roc w/Ghettosocks, Uncle Fester, Shevy Price, Realeyez, Kxng Wooz, Iyari, DJ Anderoc, DJ Fadzwa Friday, June 9 at 10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $9 After a seemingly endless winter and spring, you no doubt need a blast of heat that warms you from head to toe, lifts your spirits and makes you say, “hell […]
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Welcome Shift From Tha 902
RiFF RAFF w/Shift From Tha 902, F8FUL, Relly, Panda Gang, Peter Jackson, DJ Afterthought, Rude Dowg, Pineo & Loeb Tuesday, May 9, 9pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street riffraffhalifax2017.eventbrite.ca Todd Googoo, AKA Shift From Tha 902—a hip hop artist from We’koqma’q First Nations, is speaking from his hotel room in Saint John, up from Cape […]
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Going way Underground
Staying Underground residency Friday April 13 & 20, 9pm Alteregos Cafe, 2193 Gottingen Street RHONDA, Pleasure Forever, All Black Everything with Alfalfa Brown Friday April 7, 10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street Pop-up shop with Alfalfa Brown Tuesday April 11, 6-8pm Lost & Found, 2383 Agricola Street “The best comment I heard was that […]
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Best Open Mic Night
Gold Winner Danny Banfield, Freeman’s Little New York, Sackville Silver Winner Rockbottom Brew Pub Bronze Winner Rockin’ For Dollars, Reflections Cabaret Danny Banfield, the affable host of your choice for Best Open Mic Night, is grateful for the win. Usually, Banfield spends his time making others sound good—that’s what a good open mic host does, […]
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Best Place To Dance
Gold Winner Reflections Cabaret Silver Winner Pacifico Bronze Winner Midtown-Boomers Tavern & Lounge No labels, no rules and unstoppable dance parties are what Reflections is, and has been, about since it opened in 1996. An inclusive dance club from the get-go, Refs is host to drag shows, theme nights, banging DJs, Halifax Pop Explosion showcases […]
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City Natives drop lyrics to inspire
City Natives w/Quake Matthews, Jay Mayne Friday, October 21, 11:10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15 Since playing Halifax Pop Explosion in 2014, City Natives released a pair of albums and won e East Coast Music and Indigenous Music Awards, and this summer toured the Maritimes with A Tribe Called Red. The hip-hop collective of […]
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Hannah Georgas lets it flow
Hannah Georgas w/Petra Glynt Friday, October 21, 11pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $15 w/Basia Bulat, Schmeids Puls Saturday, October 22, 8pm The Marquee Club, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 “I heard somebody say this quote that resonated with me for some reason,” says Hannah Georgas. “‘When you turn on a tap for the first time […]
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Harrison’s PMA
Harrison w/Eddy, Chastity, Holy Fuck Thursday, October 20, 10:30pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15 Harrison w/Matty Galaxy Friday, October 21 at 1:30am Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15 When Toronto producer Harrison goes on tour, he can be found binge-watching episodes of Seinfeld while travelling. While he finds comfort in the show about nothing, […]