Wanna dress like the cool kids? Atlantic Fashion Week‘s Emerging Designers Showcase (Thursday, April 15, 8pm, O’Reagan’s Mercedes Benz) always presents some of the city’s best young alternative fashion talents—this time, 15 take the stage, mostly from NSCAD‘s fashion and textile program, though that’s starting to change as the scene becomes more established and designers […]
Vanessa Furlong
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Fall music review
September Releases York Redoubt, s/t (Noyes/Hot Money) After a coast-to-coast summer tour, including a coveted slot at Calgary’s Sled Island Festival, York Redoubt releases its self-titled full-length. Recorded by uber-engineers Charles Austin and Dave Ewenson, this fantastic album is full of sonic surprises, melding noise, harmonies and ragged lo-fi goodness. September 5 at The Seahorse […]
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Three Sheet heat
Firefighters in full uniform jump from a red truck parked outside Elephant & Castle. The shrill fire drill still screams from the now-empty basement where a diverse mix of Three Sheet addicts thrives on the hip-hop group every Thursday night. “I wore my nice bra,” singer Vanessa Furlong says loudly over the buzz of 50 […]