Cold Smoke w/Dub Kartel, Walrus, Century Egg, Jelly, Alfie, Like A Motorcycle, Ghettosocks, Pineo & Loeb, Bosby, Tomatron, Woozy, Tachichi, The Sensi, Zora the Sultan Friday, January 13, 10pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $15 Baby, it’s cold outside, but the stages inside the Marquee and Seahorse Tavern are about to get toasty on […]
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Wintersleep get ready to rock The Marquee
It’s been a good year to be in Wintersleep. The band members spent 2016 headlining Gridlock festival, dropping an album that was also totally jaw-dropping (more on that in a second) and, now, will be celebrating all those wins with a big show at The Marquee. Hitting the stage January 14 and 15 with their […]
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Big in Japan—and Halifax
David Romero Friday, November 4, 9pm Saturday, November 5, 1pm $15-$40 Thirty-two years ago David Romero was at home in Andalusia, located in southern Spain. His mother was in the kitchen singing along to flamenco music. Romero began dancing, and didn’t stop. Now an accomplished flamenco dancer based in Barcelona, Romero was a featured artist […]
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Voivod returns to ‘80s roots
Voivod w/Black Moor, Scumgrief, Geil Thursday, October 20, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 With over 30 years together, Quebec sci-fi thrash metal band Voivod is still going strong. The band has gone through some changes along the way–after guitarist Denis “Piggy” D’Amour passed away from colon cancer in 2005, the group said […]
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“If you like The Beach Boys, you’ll probably like TUNS”
TUNS w/Partner, Monomyth, Century Egg Friday, October 21, midnight The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 The members of the pop-rock group TUNS were friends first, which is probably why their debut, self-titled record feels as familiar and tasty as a sonic slice of vanilla cake. Or, as Mike O’Neill says about the “vocally driven pop” […]
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Wild Geil
Geil w/ Scumgrief, Black Moor, Voivod Thursday, October 20, 9pm The Marquee Club, 2037 Gottingen Street, $25 As a journalist, I report the facts. Here’s one: Geil makes the best punk songs around. Made up of four friends—vocalist Jessi Talbot, guitarist Ben Brennan, bassist Tri Le and drummer Aaron Burke—the band started off as a […]
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PUP patrol
PUP w/White Lung, Greys, Pkew Pkew Pkew Wednesday, October 19, 8pm The Marquee Club 2037 Gottingen Street $25 “My body has no clue what time zone it’s in,” says Stefan Babcock, on the line Thanksgiving morning, the day after he arrived home in Toronto from a surprisingly successful tour of Australia. PUP, the punk band […]
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All 164 Sloan songs ranked worst to best
Sloan made me want to be in a band. From the first time I watched them on MuchMusic (“The Other Man”—still my favourite music video) to seeing them play Twice Removed at the Marquee, I was enamoured. During my Masters at Dalhousie, under the guidance of Dr. J (shout out to Jacqueline Warwick!) I examined […]
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The Trews announce TIME CAPSULE tour
While rockers The Trews never exactly went away, they definitely went quiet for awhile, shuffling their lineup and moving to the big smoke, making some re-imagine the Antigonish musicians as a Toronto band. These changes, combined with a national tour bringing the boys back to Nova Scotia this December, make it feel safe to say […]
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Jimmy Swift Band’s brief break from retirement
The Jimmy Swift Band walked the line between rock and electronica (or, as they often call it, “rocktronica”) from the late ‘90s until their official breakup in 2011. When they announced their last hurrah tour in 2014 (crowned with a prime slot at Evolve festival), fans figured they’d seen the last of the Halifax-based musicians. […]
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Sloan brings One Chord To Another home Oct 7
Halifax-born pop rock band Sloan has made a long career mixing punk-tinged vocals, sharp guitar lines and frothy, light melodies. With over 25 years in the music game, it feels safe to say they cinched Canadian Icon status long ago. If remembering that long ago makes you feel nostalgic, you’re not alone. It seems Sloan […]
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Mykki Blanco, Coast cover grrl
In contemporary art and culture, we are constantly striving to challenge and renegotiate accepted conventions and expectations. But Mykki Blanco, the Orange County rapper, poet, activist and actor—also queer, non-binary, HIV-positive and influenced by Riot Grrls—is the supreme being of artistic change in 2016. In her ascent as the most prominent figure in underground rap, […]