Hatchet Lake w/The Royal Volts, Bear Le Friends Saturday, January 13, 10pm Gus’ Pub, 2605 Agricola Street $7 A couple postponed recording sessions proved to work in favour of Halifax rockers Hatchet Lake. “It was almost two or three months later than we originally planned to record” the songs, says vocalist and guitarist Craig Harris. […]
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GroundSwell Music Festival hits the ground running
GroundSwell Music Festival Mar 16-18 Various times and locations (see listings below) The stars have aligned for this year’s GroundSwell Music Festival. Celtic-tinged rock landing on St. Patrick’s weekend? It’s too perfect. With three nights of big ticket shows and lots of genres on offer (from Ria Mae’s power-pop to roots music from Rawlins Cross), […]
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Best Artist / Band To Get Trashed To
Gold Winner Dub Kartel Silver Winner Like A Motorcycle Bronze Winner The Stanfields “Fuck yeah! This category has a special place in our hearts,” says the dance-hall band’s guitarist Richard McNeil. “I think it’s because we get so trashed that we encourage everyone to get trashed, too. We’re a party band.” The seven-person unit is […]
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The Stanfields shake up
The Stanfields’ new single, “Fight Song,” hit radio airwaves last week following the announcement of new members Dillan Tate (bass) and Calen Kinney (bouzouki/fiddle) replacing founding fathers Craig Harris and Jason Wright. “We’re all 35 years old, we’ve experienced a lot of things and for them”— Wright and Harris—”I think it was important to start […]
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ECMAs go off without a glitch
My 2011 East Coast Music Award week started late, but with the amount of bitchin’ talent booked all over Charlottetown, PEI it was impossible not to catch up to everyone else. I started at the Murphy’s Community Centre on Saturday afternoon. Bands were set up in a multipurpose room that reminded me of an old […]
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The Coast at the ECMAs this weekend
Keep the Coast bookmarked on your web browser for upcoming blogs, videos and pictures from the East Coast Music Awards performances on PEI this weekend. Get a rogue’s eye view of the random bar hoppin’s, hotel room jammin’s and overall shenanigans happening around Charlottetown’s modest but thriving downtown hub. There’s shitloads of Halifax talent that’ll […]
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The Coast does NXNE: A preview
This ain’t Toronto, or at least not the Toronto I remember. There’s a chain link fence cordoning off a large swath of the downtown core. Kites and radio-controlled aircraft, I’m told, are strictly forbidden. Poorly-marked CCTV cameras track every movement south of bustling Queen Street. Two-week summer condo sublets cost roughly $8,400. And there are […]
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Best Artist / Band
“That’s crazy,” laughs The Stanfields’ vocalist/guitarist Jon Landry, with a sigh of disbelief, when he’s informed about the stack of golden records the band won in this year’s readers’ poll. It’s a couple of days after ripping up hotel suites at the ECMAs in Sydney and the work’s not yet over. When we speak to […]
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Best Artist / Band To Get Trashed To
“That’s crazy,” laughs The Stanfields’ vocalist/guitarist Jon Landry, with a sigh of disbelief, when he’s informed about the stack of golden records the band won in this year’s readers’ poll. It’s a couple of days after ripping up hotel suites at the ECMAs in Sydney and the work’s not yet over. When we speak to […]
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Best Artist / Band Most Likely To Make It Big
“That’s crazy,” laughs The Stanfields’ vocalist/guitarist Jon Landry, with a sigh of disbelief, when he’s informed about the stack of golden records the band won in this year’s readers’ poll. It’s a couple of days after ripping up hotel suites at the ECMAs in Sydney and the work’s not yet over. When we speak to […]