Matt Steele & The Corvette Sunset album release w/The Kents, Lazeez, Nick Faye & The Deputies Thursday, June 7, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street $10 eventbrite.com Matt Steele is accustomed to taking the stage with various musicians behind him.”It was a lot of moving the guitar neck up and down to signal, ‘Here […]
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Postdata’s wild heart
Postdata w/Quiet Parade Thursday, May 31, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street $15 The first Postdata record was a gift, from Paul Murphy and his brother Michael, to their mother. The collection is nine hushed, intimate, gentle songs, emotionally in line with but sonically and tonally distant from Paul’s main gig, Wintersleep. For the […]
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Washing machine’s clean slate
Washing Machine release w/Booji Boys, Surveillance, Valerie Thursday, April 5, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $7 Noel Macdonald would never say it, but Walk It Back, his first record with the new-wave inspired band Washing Machine, feels like a big deal. Macdonald has been playing in the local scene for years—with Moon, Long […]
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Heaven for Real trips out with Live in Japan
Heaven for Real EP release w/Century Egg, Aquakultre Friday, March 30, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $10 Local experimental rock heroes Heaven For Real are emerging from a relatively quiet few months this week with a renewed energy and a brand-new tape, Live In Japan. The band, which currently features Mark Grundy, Scott […]
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Miesha Louie’s Girls trip
Miesha and the Spanks Thursday, March 15, 10pm Gus’ Pub, 2605 Agricola Street $Rockin for Dollar$ Monday, March 19, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street Miesha and the Spanks had already been on the road a week before their new album, Girls Girls Girls, even dropped. Released last Friday, it’s a 10-track blast of […]
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Rich Aucoin celebrates life
Rich Aucoin Hold EP release w/Chudi Harris Thursday, March 15, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gotttingen Street $15 After talking bit over the phone about his meditative songwriting method—a process influenced by his King’s philosophy degree—Rich Aucoin off-handedly sums up his artistic ethos in one succinct sentence: “You don’t have to wait around for a […]
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Becoming Elijah Will
Elijah Will 3am release party w/Universal Soul, DJ IV and OKAY TK Friday, February 2, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street Elijah Will was discovered at a songwriting camp, but it turned out his mentor lived right up the road. Born Elijah Wohlmuth, four years ago the young R&B singer from Enfield attended Gordie […]
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Everybody loves Palehound
Palehound w/Dance Movie, Emily Rockarts, Valerie Thursday, January 18, 8pm The Seahorse, 2037 Gottingen Street $15 adv/$20 door The highlight of 2018 may have already happened for Palehound. On January 8, the Boston indie pop-rock band was a crossword clue in The New York Times, much to the delight of frontperson Ellen Kempner. “I wish […]
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Witch Prophet’s real magic
Witch Prophet w/Reeny Smith, The State of Alaska, Nick Ferrio Friday, January 19, 9:30pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $15 adv/$20 door At the end of 2015, a song called “Architect of Heartbreak” began circulating online among underground hip-hop and R&B fans. The song, by an artist called Witch Prophet and featuring Seattle hip-hop […]
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Zaum town
Zaum Saturday December 9, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $12 The experimental doom duo Zaum is turning up the lights and bringing some friends on stage to wrap up a year of globe-trotting. Zaum has travelled the world in support of Eidolon, an album with two sprawling, dark, ambient and meditative tracks that […]
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Mauno brings it all home
Mauno w/Jon McKiel, Juice Girls Thursday, November 23, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $10 Nick Everett doesn’t beat around the bush. The music he makes as a part of the band Mauno—with guitarist Scott Boudreau, bassist/vocalist Eliza Niemi and drummer Adam White—carries this same affects as his conversational style: Spry, thoughtful, quietly intellectual. […]
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Gold Winner The Seahorse Tavern Silver Winner The Lower Deck, Halifax Bronze Winner Durty Nelly’s Authentic Irish Pub “Whether it’s live music, dance parties, comedy nights or community events, the fact that we consistently host a diverse range of entertainment means we’re catering to many different groups each and every week. There’s something for everyone,” […]