Aparna Nancherla w/Cher Hann and Sandi Rankaduwa Wednesday, April 5, 9pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $20 “As comedians, it is up to us to overturn and shake and deconstruct and weigh every system that governs life,” wrote Aparna Nancherla in the Village Voice last December, after Donald Trump had been elected but before […]
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WATCH THIS: Jon McKiel’s live video for “Jewel in the Sun”
“I’m pretty inspired by the other people that I’m playing with.” Amherst-born musician Jon McKiel’s latest music video was filmed live at the Seahorse Tavern. McKiel calls the video a “takeaway show.” “For me, there wasn’t a lot of footage of the band playing,” says McKiel. “We’ve been playing together for a couple years but […]
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Loveland spreads the love
Loveland album release Friday, February 17, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $5 before 11pm, $10 after Loveland’s new album explores sounds not present in the band’s first record. Chill for You, released on Valentine’s Day, features guitarist Michael Fong and bass player Andrew Mawko, whose instruments help channel an expressive tone. “This album […]
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The Barrowdowns gonna make you move
The Barrowdowns w/Nick Everett, Loveland, The Wooden Sky Friday, January 20, TKpm The Seahorse Tavern $23/$25 If you make a word cloud with all of The Barrowdowns’ social media posts, the word “dancing” stands out above the rest. As the live show developed while playing the festival circuit over the past two years, dancing became […]
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Murder, Jean wrote
The Attempted Murder of Laura Jean w/Kurt Inder, LUKA, Jennifer Castle Thursday, January 19, 9pm Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $23/$25 It’s fitting The Attempted Murder of Laura Jean plays a festival called In the Dead of Winter. Images of skulls, typically of human and horse variety, frequent the artwork of her album covers and […]
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Jennifer Castle’s solo call
Jennifer Castle w/The Attempted Murder of Laura Jean, Kurt Inder, LUKA Thursday, January 19, 9pm Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $23/$25 Two years removed from her gorgeous, Polaris Prize-shortlisted album Pink City, Jennifer Castle continues to call out with incisive lyrics and a sharp, effervescent voice. While both Pink City and the new music that […]
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SNEAK PEEK: Cryptorips’ “Surya”
To celebrate tonight’s “Glenwood G.G./Hau Kea” 7” release (Thursday, January 12, 8pm at The Seahorse Tavern with Unreal Thought and Future Girls with DJ Loukas Stilldrunk, $7), Dartmouth’s own Cryptorips has given us an exclusive, never before heard track off its upcoming full length. “Surya” is a supremely heavy song about complete badass figure skater […]
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Cold Smoke’s slow burn
Cold Smoke w/Dub Kartel, Walrus, Century Egg, Jelly, Alfie, Like A Motorcycle, Ghettosocks, Pineo & Loeb, Bosby, Tomatron, Woozy, Tachichi, The Sensi, Zora the Sultan Friday, January 13, 10pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $15 Baby, it’s cold outside, but the stages inside the Marquee and Seahorse Tavern are about to get toasty on […]
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Caution: Wet Paint
Hot Boxing Day w/Wet Paint, KDZ, The Sensi, Dead Horse Beats Monday, December 26, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $5 Packing the Seahorse for a Boxing Day blowout of electronic music is becoming an annual tradition for Halifax producers James Gaudet and Dan Shanahan, AKA Wet Paint. While their live show on the […]
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The Jerry Cans northern life
The Jerry Cans w/The Barrowdowns Friday, November 18, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern 2037 Gottingen Street $10 Belting out songs in Inuktitut, the Iqaluit-based The Jerry Cans are known for sneaking language lessons into the dance party. The band sounds like the contemporary north: Traditional Inuit throat singing, accordion, alt-country, bluegrass and reggae. It’s uniformly danceable and […]
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Keeping it Short and Sweet at Kinetic Studios
Short and Sweet: 25 Dances that End Quickly Tuesday, November 22, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $15 in advance, $20 at the door Jacinte Armstrong says Kinetic Studio is about bringing Halifax artists together through dance. Armstrong hopes the interdisciplinary approach to her upcoming show–Short and Sweet: 25 Dances that End Quickly–will make […]
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Where we practice: The Town Heroes
The Town Heroes w/Rain Over St. Ambrose, Owen Meany’s Batting Stance The Seahorse, 2037 Gottingen Street Saturday, November 12, 10pm, $13 WHO THEY ARE Even heroes can suffer from a lack of inspiration. Just ask The Town Heroes, whose two-man, alt-rock style had, after six years, left them feeling stale. While working on 2016’s EP […]