Social Smokers Club releases The Woods w/No, It’s Fine., Good Dear Good and Sore Loser Friday, April 5, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $8 Social Smokers Club started off as a high school English project about a book. It’s led to songs and booked shows around the Maritimes. When guitarist William Robbins and […]
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Unchained Melodies
Jon Samuel Dead Melodies release w/Museum Pieces, Shadow Folk Friday, February 1, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $6 In a world of single-use plastic, how do you make something that lasts? In an endless sea of music, how do you craft a song that’ll not only stand out, but stand the test of […]
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Support, in unison
Support Acts w/Jessie Brown, Worst Part, No, It’s Fine., Designosaur Friday, December 7, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $8/pwyc It all started, as it often does, because a group of friends wanted to play a show. As Jessie Brown talked with members of Worst Part, she realized there was an accidental tradition amongst […]
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Bend the River’s Long Night coming
Bend the River EP release show Thursday, December 6, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $10-$18 “He’s just got this energy—it’s really intense. He knows music really well, inside and out. He brings such a a history, it’s always there, right at the forefront of what he’s doing,” says Ronok Sarkar. “It was a […]
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Many Moonwakes
Moonwake w/Walrus, Carinae Friday, November 30, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $15 The seven-piece band Moonwake is difficult to categorize: Its new EP Phonetic Limbo begins with a short swell of strings, meanders through jazz, AM radio and indie rock, and ends with a ballad straight out of a Zuppa Theatre play. Sean […]
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Best Live Music Venue
Gold Winner The Marquee Ballroom Silver Winner The Seahorse Tavern Bronze Winner The Carleton One of the city’s larger standing venues (capacity 750), The Marquee is also one of the hardest to fill. Touring acts—Thrice, Protest the Hero and Stars have been through this year, with The Trews, Stiff Little Fingers and Barr Brothers on […]
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HPX18: Zaki Ibrahim
[image1] Zaki Ibrahim w/Yohvn Black Saturday, October 20, 9:30pm The Seahorse, 2037 Gottingen Street. $15 adv/$20 door Telepathy, time travel and sci-fi futurism aren’t themes you’d expect from an R&B album, but when it comes to Zaki Ibrahim’s latest, The Secret Life Of Planets, the subject matter is as limitless as she is. Born in […]
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Same Town, more Heroes
The Town Heroes album release w/Kids Losing Sleep, David in the Dark Friday, October 12, 10:30pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $15, tickethalifax.com Mike Ryan and Bruce Gillis, better known as The Town Heroes, are back with an expanded cast on their fourth melodic rock album Everything (Will Be Fine When We Get To […]
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In the Shadow of Cryptorips
Cryptorips Shadow Up Gold release w/Beach Bait & Designosaur Thursday, August 23, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $8 Out of the blue, Cryptorips dropped its first full-length record early in June. Besides the occasional Instagram post, there was no hype, not even a Facebook post announcing its release—just an album of noise-rock suddenly […]
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Nap Eyes’ subjective science
Nap Eyes w/Surveillance & MTCHCRFT Thursday, August 9, 8pm The Seahorse, 2037 Gottingen Street, $10 Near the end of “Roses,” the rollicking centrepiece of Nap Eyes’ dense third album I’m Bad Now, Nigel Chapman offers one of his most surprisingly simple lyrics. Earlier, he remarks that “people look for their reflections everywhere/in everyone”—something that resonates […]
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Going with Partner’s flow
Partner w/No, It’s Fine., Century Egg Thursday, June 21, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $17.50 adv/$25 door About two-thirds of the way into In Search of Lost Time, the long-awaited debut album from Windsor, ON-via-Sackville, NB rock band Partner, a voice solemnly offers a proclamation about the state of music and its listeners: […]
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Put your hands together for these 17 summer concerts
JUNE 21 Partner w/Century Egg and No, It’s Fine. Sackville’s finest stoner rock ex-pats return to the east coast for what’ll surely be one of the sweatiest gigs of the summer—and one of the best, with support from the mathy No, It’s Fine and alt-popsters Century Egg. The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, 8pm, $17.50 […]