The Marquee Ballroom

This is the time of year when you haul out memories of heat waves and sleeping on top of your sheets, not under all of the blankets you possess, hot water bottles embraced like childhood teddy bears. Desperately attempting to push realities of wet socks and numb noses out of the foreground with fantasies of […]

Paul Murphy was jostled in his seat, like an LP scratched by a frantic DJ, as Metro Transit route 80 lurched from stop to stop on the way from his Bedford home to downtown Halifax. At the time, the late 1990s, his turntable technique was as unrefined as that skittish bus route. But the aspiring […]

“When we started out, we didn’t have any big goals,” says Liam Corcoran, vocalists and guitarist for Two Hours Traffic. “We were at UPEI and just wanted to write some songs and play our own music in Charlottetown.” He had no idea what the next decade would bring: “It all came as a surprise to […]

I say “metal,” you say “philanthropy!” Right? Well, maybe you don’t, but Matt Day sure does, so this weekend the founder of Spread the Metal Records presents the second annual Spread the Metal Festival, with all proceeds raised by the two day event going to national and international charities. While a heavy metal label might […]

Hayden wants to be alone together. After several years, he returns to Halifax with his latest album Us Alone. “So much has changed in my life, but as a musician, not a ton,” says Hayden Desser. “I still go weeks or months not playing at all, I leave the room when people at a party […]