Laura Roy doesn’t miss home. The R&B superstar-on-the-rise has been too busy making London her city to think much about Halifax: This much is clear when she answers the phone to chat about her new single while simultaneously piling in the van for the next tour stop, supporting Anne-Marie (a sort of British Carly Rae […]
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Ten questions with Villages
After recently signing to the same label as Matt Mays and Hey Rosetta! (that’s Sonic Records, for those keeping track), it feels safe to say that world domination is next for Villages. The Cape Breton four-piece are folk, sure, but in a way that’s more Fleet Foxes-y than jigs-and-reel: addictive and emotive but as fresh […]
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Buffy Sainte-Marie to play Halifax August 26
Without her there’d be no Jeremy Dutcher. Heck, there’d be no Joni Mitchell. Yep, long before the “Indigenous renaissance” that saw Dutcher win a JUNO and the Snotty Nose Rez Kids revolutionize Canadian hip hop, there was Buffy Sainte-Marie, pioneering the ’60s singer-songwriter genre with a catalogue of tunes as thematically weighty as they are […]
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Alessia Cara to play Halifax Jazz Fest on July 9
From recording acoustic covers in her basement to hitting the stage at Saturday Night Live to winning a Grammy for best new artist in 2018, it’s safe to say Alessia Cara has spent her teen years in an ascent, a come-up, rising into popular conscious off the back of her totally-perfect (I will not entertain […]
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Flex through this Super Bowl weekend with these Sure Things
This Super Bowl weekend is a touchdown, with double-duty events aplenty like a dance night that doubles as a cultural enrichment, a beer bar that’s also a pinballer’s paradise and art shows that double as activism. Get ready to get inspired. FIN Fridays: Perfume War Friday The film fest has some off-season fun with these […]
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Sloan comes back home with Navy Blues tour
When Sloan dropped Navy Blues in 1998, it was after a few tumultuous years of attempted solo side projects and the hard work of cracking the U.S. market. Perhaps the reason why people went so nuts for the record was because it was proof their favourite band had weathered the storm—and still had its same sense […]
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The Black Keys are coming to Halifax
After dropping an album that proved the duo still has lots to say—and still knows how cut a deep groove—in 2019’s Let’s Rock, the Black Keys are coming to Halifax. Hitting the Scotiabank Centre May 5 at 7:30pm, the six-time-Grammy-winning blues rock duo will share the stage with The Sheepdogs and Early James, kicking off […]
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Ten questions with Braden Lam
He’s been, it feels, a star poised to shoot from the start: Selling out spaces like The Carleton to fellow students to see their favourite indie-folkster sing about love and growing up. Winning prizes like the Best of Halifax Readers’ Choice Award for Best New Band and the SOCAN Award For Young Canadian Songwriters. Earning […]
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ZZ Top announces Halifax show May 20
It calls itself “the little ol’ band from Texas,” but ZZ Top has gone on to prove it’s an act with legs (which, naturally, knows how to use them), outlasting many of its glam-rock peers and riding a red-hot rod into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now, it’s bringing hits like “Sharp Dressed […]
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OBEY Convention becomes EVERYSEEKER
View this post on Instagram JUST PLAYED DRUNK ON @hkcronline LOL GO LISTEN A post shared by chippy (@chippyxnonstop) on Jan 6, 2020 at 6:31am PST [Above: Chippy Nonstop, Toronto DJ du jour, will come to Halifax as part of the fest’s expanded off-season programming.] OBEY Convention has long helped Halifax keep it weird, bringing […]
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Behind the setlist with Matt Mays
When Matt Mays takes the stage on November 16 for the final show of his Howl At The Night Tour—which saw his eight-piece band play 19 Canadian dates in less than a month—he spends a second that isn’t long, but is very deep, in silence. With his back to the audience, ensconced in a cone […]
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Five questions I wish I could ask Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee—best known for making Canada cool in the 1970s as he melted faces in the prog-rock band Rush—spent most of 2019 *not* behind the bass but behind a desk, writing The Big Beautiful Book of Bass. The hardcover Globe & Mail bestseller—which’ll set you back $103.04 for a signed copy—is billed as a mix of […]