Bit by bit (torrent) With the music industry’s Napster-related shitfit of a few years ago and the billion-dollar movie industry’s ongoing campaign against downloading (though we haven’t seen those commercials lately, the ones where the prop guy is like “You’re stealing from me,” which, sorry anyone working in the movie industry, you’re doing better than […]
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Urban surf Christmas
The first snowfall of the season and the Urban Surf Kings’ holiday bash are telling signs the holiday season is upon us. The former has already happened, and the latter’s 10th annual is on December 9 at the Khyber. It’s a time of year the band gets especially excited about. “It’s our once a year […]
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Hung up (on hate)
We love Madonna. Unabashedly. Her tenacity and ability to reinvent and reposition herself for as long as we’ve been alive is mind-boggling. And though the music peaked with Ray of Light, we admire her untouched status as a modern pop icon. So we were stoked when our Rolling Stone showed up this week, with an […]
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Conjunction Junction
The reputation of the band set to open for Bedouin Soundclash this Friday is somewhat ambiguous at the moment, but that won’t last for long. Brampton’s The Junction signed with Universal this summer and will soon return home to finish work on their debut full-length. Bassist Matthew Jameson says the deal came about slowly. “It […]
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Gas track
Back in 1997, seven years after the Kyoto Accord was born, HRM joined the 20 percent club. We committed to reducing our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20 percent by the year 2012. Instead, our emissions increased. By 2002, SuperCitizens were producing 28 percent more GHGs than in 1997. One reason is simply there were […]
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Anablog
Damage deposit The movie press kit has evolved from business-sized folder with picture CD and press notes into an even more boring, DVD-cased electronic press kit (EPK) featuring pictures, press notes, the trailer and whatnot. So we appreciate it when studios make an effort to jazz up their pressers. For the ridiculously enjoyable 13 Going […]
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P-Gods flush with newness
This time last year The Porcelain Gods were among the fastest-rising bands in Halifax. A year later, battered and beleaguered, the pop-rock quintet hopes the sum of its misfortunes will be returned in an equivalent amount of positive karma. First came the replacement of drummer Jeremy Stewart with Niall Skinner. “I always made the conscious […]
