

I have to be honest, this is a very biased review. I have been a huge fan of Three Sheet ever since I saw them open for Shad at the Grawood in 2012. Unbeknownst to me, they had already been on the Halifax scene for many years and I have been fortunate enough to see […]
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Changing Three Sheet
Three Sheet w/Know Issue Friday, December 9, 10pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 After nearly a decade as a band, alternative hip-hop troupe Three Sheet is taking stock of where it’s at. Three Sheet’s tenure has included a huge number of shows in Halifax, a handful of tours, even a visit to Taiwan—something that […]
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Where We Practice: Three Sheet
WHO THEY ARE After years of touring, two albums and multiple music awards, Halifax’s alternative hip-hop group Three Sheet took time to cool off after last summer. The band—including beatboxer and vocal scratcher EMC (AKA Eric McIntyre), emcee Expedyte (AKA Matt Kliffer), vocalist Vanessa Furlong, Kevin Tilley (bass) and Ryan O’Quinn (guitar)—recently added DJ Uncle […]
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Garrison’s Backlot Bash with July Talk, Three Sheet and more
Gear up to get beer’d up: this Friday, March 11, tickets go on sale for Garrison Brewing’s second annual Backlot Bash, featuring musical performances from Toronto blues rockers July Talk, Halifax rappers Three Sheet, ECMA winners Alert the Medic and local upstarts The Brood at the all-night, open-air parking lot party festival in support of the Ecology […]
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Best Hip Hop Artist / Band
Gold Winner Classified Silver Winner Cam Smith Bronze Winner Three Sheet Started from the bottom, now he’s here. “Here” of course being the Gold-winning spot in the best hip-hop artist category, of course. What did you think? Hosting the Junos midway through a cross-Canadian tour? That’s good too, as well as the whopping 4x platinum […]
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Music Nova Scotia Award Winners
Ms. Townsend Well, that was fun. List of award winners below. Biggies include Carmen Townsend, who won four awards, Three Sheet and David Myles. Meanwhile, the “Best Sandwich,” “Vodka vs. Ouzo,” “No-Pants” and “Best Elevator Trauma” awards were given out during a secret ceremony on Saturday night at around 4am. Music Awards Bell Aliant Entertainer […]
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Tunes at Noon Starts Today
quake The lunchtime concert series at Grand Parade Tunes at Noon begins today with Marko Simmonds. The full lineup is re-printed below, and we’re happy to see that it features an eclectic group of musicians, including Ria Mae, Daniel Matto and the Urban Surf Kings.And it’s particularly nice to see some hip-hop on the bill […]
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Listen to Three Sheet on Background Noise
Before you head out to the Elephant and Castle tonight to see Three Sheet drop their second album Sheet Music, you should head over to Background Noise and listen to last night’s just-uploaded interview, which features delightfully crass hosts Derreck Ord, Luke James, Devin Deuville and Jon Sangster talking trash with four of the five […]
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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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Kelly McGuire’s midweek collaborators
Hump day is usually the day that gets you closer to the weekend, but the last Wednesday of 2009 began a new mid-week tradition—Halifax Music Club at the Paragon. The Club brings musicians and artists from different genres together to collaborate, with local blues musician Garrett Mason, Cape Breton darling Carmen Townsend and actor/dancer/jack-of-all-trades Cory […]
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GZA raises Halifax’s IQ on January 26
That Genius is always thinking It was fate. No sooner than I had finished watching Buddhist Fist, and drinking a Bloody Mary, but I see a lovely email telling me that GZA is coming back to town. Crazy, right? He’s gonna be into my Holy Ghost Claw style. For sure. GZA plays the Paragon on […]
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Three Sheet
A spirited, thoughtful MC, Expedyte’s verses can get wordy at times. Occasionally he sounds hurried, behind the beat. But he nails it on, for example, “Norm Now.” Vanessa Furlong delivers throughout the album, particularly “Blood Whale” and “How it Goes.” Halifax’s Three Sheet has got something. They’ve got a human beatbox, EMC, but no kit—that […]