10 Write For Your Life IV Sunday Cheer for Halifax’s deadliest writer! 9 Dazor EP Release Show Saturday Heavy sounds from hard rockers. 8 Elephant’s Graveyard Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday The Dartmouth Players share the tragic story of a small town’s struggling circus in 1918 Tennessee. 7 Shokran Canada Thursday A traditional […]
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Tegan and Sara in Halifax July 27
Your favourite JUNO-nominated indie-pop duo, Tegan and Sara, come back to Halifax touring their latest release and eighth album, Love You To Death, at the Rebecca Cohn auditorium on Thursday, July 27 at 8pm. Tickets are $49.50 in advance and $54.50 day of show (including tax and CIF) and will be available this Friday, March […]
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Ten totally cool weekend picks
10 Ripple: Ceramics Thursday // Friday // Saturday // Sunday Kaashif Ghanie re-envisions his thrown platters as canvases for expression. 9 Devour! The Sea Thursday This after-dark wander around the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, in collaboration with Devour! food film fest, sees Maritime heritage and regional cuisine come alive. Award-winning chefs fuel the fun […]
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High Klassified hits Halifax
While a hip-hop head reppin’ their hometown certainly isn’t new (at least half of College Dropout era Kanye relied on Chi-town referencing), the way beat maker/music mystic High Klassified reps Laval, NOT Montreal, should touch the heart of any proud Dartmouth dweller or Cole Harbour kid. Tomorrow night, High Klassified and his killer pick comb/ […]
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BurgerFriesPop is a winning combo
BurgerFriesPop EP release w/Jessie Brown, FM Berlin, Bad Partys Friday, March 24 at 9pm The Local, 2037 Gottingen Street $7 “It was totally on purpose,” says guitarist and vocalist Dale Boudreau on new wave trio BurgerFriesPop’s decision to release their EP during Burger Week. With all of the online rumbling about The Coast’s ever-popular week-long […]
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Make way for Vulva Culture
Vulva Culture w/Husband & Knife, Special Costello Saturday, March 25, 8:30pm-12am Timber Lounge Vulva Culture w/Chudi Harris, AquakultureMonday, March 27, 8pm-12am The HMCS Wardroom, University of King’s College After a four-month hiatus, Vulva Culture is hitting up two live shows in Halifax at the end of March. “We’ve still been working in-between, just not playing […]
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Twelve wild ways to spend St. Patrick’s weekend
As always, click each event title for full details, and happy weekend-ing! 12 The King’s Chorus Chichester Psalms Sunday A rare chance to hear Leonard Bernstein’s 1965 classic live. 11 Saint Paddy’s Dance Friday A totally twee way to be Irish for a day? Celebrate at an old-fashioned community dance. 10 St. Patrick’s Day Mega-Puketacular […]
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GroundSwell Music Festival hits the ground running
GroundSwell Music Festival Mar 16-18 Various times and locations (see listings below) The stars have aligned for this year’s GroundSwell Music Festival. Celtic-tinged rock landing on St. Patrick’s weekend? It’s too perfect. With three nights of big ticket shows and lots of genres on offer (from Ria Mae’s power-pop to roots music from Rawlins Cross), […]
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Symphony Nova Scotia announces 2017/18 concert season
This afternoon Symphony Nova Scotia announced their upcoming 2017/18 season with a full orchestra preview of highlights, which include good ol’ classics like Beethoven’s Ninth and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to Halifax Pop Explosion’s Ria Mae concert and The Music of David Bowie “Our upcoming concerts include the sublime Brahms Violin Concerto and his First Piano […]
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OBEY Convention early line-up announcement
Celebrating the 10th edition of the festival, OBEY X, the OBEY Convention announced the early line-up for spring’s wildest festival, including Indonesian folk, hip-hop, thrash metal and more. Clear the ol’ calendar for May 25-28, across the city at “alternative and historic venues” (over half of the programming free and all ages) OBEY once again […]
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Plumtree’s back catalogue re-released on vinyl
Thanks to Label Obscura, you can refresh your 20 year old Plumtree collection (sorry old, scratchy CDs, you are no longer cutting it) with some freshly pressed vinyl. The label re-released Mass Teen Fainting, Plumtree Predicts The Future and This Day Won’t Last At All on March 7 with a limited edition of 300 copies. […]
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Billy Talent w/Monster Truck and The Dirty Nil at the Scotiabank Centre: A Love Story
You know how people always say “when hell freezes over I will do such and such,” well, that kind of happened to us in a manner of speaking. I had been dating my best friend for about two years and I felt the time was right to ask her to marry me. She was never […]
