Destroyer w/Jon McKiel Monday, November 7, 8pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street sold out For over two decades, Vancouver’s Dan Bejar has been writing and performing unpredictable songs under the moniker Destroyer. His dense lyric sheets vary from lilting laments to snarling ramblings but always carry a remarkable sincerity—Bejar’s certainly one of the most […]
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White Lung finds Paradise
White Lung w/Crossed Wires, Not You, The Yips Thursday, October 20, 10pm, The Seahorse Tavern, $25 Even if you haven’t heard of the Polaris Prize-shortlisted White Lung, its poppy-punk vibes will make you feel like its your favourite high school band you accidentally forgot about. With just the right amount of angst and heavy guitars […]
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The Highest Order’s spooky party
The Highest Order w/Cactus Flower, Laura Sauvage, The Barr Brothers Saturday, October 22, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street “It’s the most ‘party’ record I’ve ever made,” The Highest Order’s Simone Schmidt says of the band’s second album, Still Holding, released this past June. Three-quarters comprised of former members of country group $100 (Schmidt, […]
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Hello Delaware’s having fun
Hello Delaware album release Dance Movie, CAMERON Friday, September 30, 7:30pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $10/$15 Dana Beeler knows a thing or two about change. Two years ago, the Halifax-based musician found herself writing songs with a broken heart and an ache to move away from the bluegrass-inflected sound with which she made […]
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Fringe Sampler! is the best fest test
Fringe Sampler! Thursday, September 1 7pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street free Going into its 26th year, the Atlantic Fringe Festival is anything but fringe. What was once a deliberately marginal theatrical celebration is not just a big theatre festival—it’s now a major Halifax festival, period. More than 50 productions over 150 performances, spanning 15 […]
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A slice of Heaven For Real
Seven and a half weeks spent in a van driving across the continent, and back. One band member trying to write her Master’s thesis in the backseat. Kanye’s album The Life Of Pablo blasting on repeat. United States border patrollers insistently asking if they’re a faith-based rock band. A dreamy house show in Victoria. Jumping […]
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Universal Soul’s return
On an evening in 2002, Tracey Williams (AKA Tacktishion) had his nap interrupted. His girlfriend woke him up, asking “Don’t you have a show tonight?” Williams rushed down to Hell’s Kitchen, now the Seahorse Tavern, on Gottingen Street, making it just in time to bust a rhyme with his group Universal Soul. He entered through […]
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Walrus brings home a new EP
The members of Halifax’s Walrus are wedged into a cafe booth that’s almost shaking with laughter. Jordan Murphy, the group’s drummer, is talking about the time one of their teenage band practices got a little too rowdy. “Remember the time we broke dad’s guitar and blamed Keith? For sure we weren’t taking the heat on […]
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The pop life of Ria Mae, from shy radio listener to hit singer
“Do you like this song?” Ria Mae turns up the radio in her car. She repeats the pattern at least a half-dozen times through the next couple hours: Breaking off from what she’s saying, asking that question, turning it up, stating a fact about the song, then respectfully returning it to just-audible. “I’ve always been […]
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You even dance, bro? Watch this photo montage of The Jam
For the last two years, three Halifax DJs have been bringing the literal and metaphorical jams almost once a month to Michael’s Bar & Grill (#RIP), briefly to Reflections and then finally The Seahorse, where the last several Jams have been ‘jammed’ to capacity. On June 17, DJ T-Woo (Trevor Wood), DJ Okay TK (TK Thorpe) and DJ Loukas […]
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New EP from Halifax’s “multi-race rainbow band” Century Egg
This morning, Halifax’s newest indie-pop/mandopop band Century Egg released Mountain God, a four-track EP of rock songs gorgeously sung in both Mandarin and English. Fronted by illustrator and video game designer Shane Keyu Song—with Nick Dourado (Special Costello) on guitar, Tri Le (Surveillance) on drums and Robert Drisdelle on bass—the band’s aesthetics and these four tracks […]
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Manifest destiny: NSCC music business students strut their stuff
“The Halifax music industry is overflowing with incredible, underrated musicians who are yet to be discovered,” says Emma Cassidy, one of the 21 students in this year’s edition of the Nova Scotia Community College‘s Music Business Program. Tonight at The Marquee and The Seahorse (2037 Gottingen Street, 10pm, $8/$5), students in the program are putting on […]