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Nova Voce
Submitted by Inspired by Gladys on 02.3.12 at 8:40am.
Nova Voce, the Provincial Men's Choir, is a fantastic choir in Nova Scotia. They perform around the province and if you have the opportunity, you must go see them. My Aunt Lynn is their very talented accompanist and also Gladys' sister.
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One Hundred Dollars – Ties That Bind Video Premier
Submitted by Herohill on 02.3.12 at 8:08am.
It’s no secret that I love the visceral country songs One Hundred Dollars delivers each and every time out. The band hits like a sledgehammer; sure any country purist will soak up the melodies, but Simone Schmidt refuses to settle for cheap cliches and tried and true imagery.
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BENIGHTED- Asylum Cave
Submitted by Halifax Collect on 02.3.12 at 8:03am.
On Asylum Cave, France's much lauded Benighted are able to cater to vide range of extreme metal fans and especially those of the death metal variety. Make no mistake - this LP kicks ass but in the long run that might not be enough.
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“Cream” by Claptone
Submitted by The New Halifax blog on 02.2.12 at 8:17am.
Reminiscent of the super patient, minimal, and downright seductive bootlegs that Soul Clap was pushing out a couple years ago (see Extravaganza, Sex In the Kitchen, and Rock the Boat) this new release from the mysterious duo Claptone entitled "Cream" utilizes the same tension and release tantra-e...
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Boxer The Horse – Rattle Your Cage
Submitted by Herohill on 02.2.12 at 8:02am.
If you had taken a poll a few years ago, when PEI was spitting out awesome young bands like they were some new form of hybrid potato (a PEI/potato ref, unexpected right?), around which band would end up having the most interesting body of work over their career, the winner would likely have been ...
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Waye Mason Turns 40!
Submitted by Blogger on 02.1.12 at 9:32am.
A Fundraiser for the Parker Street Food & Furniture Bank
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File Under Awesome:: Shivering Songs this weekend
Submitted by Herohill on 02.1.12 at 7:47am.
Alright, Fredericton. You and I haven’t seen eye to eye much in the past, but I’m willing to forgive and forget what with you playing host to the 2nd edition of the Shivering Songs festival. Like most fantastic festivals, Shivering Songs isn’t about Redbull tents, corporate sponsors and buzz band...
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Def Jef – Droppin’ Rhymes On Drums
Submitted by Herohill on 01.31.12 at 7:38am.
I’ll freely admit to not knowing much about Etta James, outside of the fact that she seemed to be a pretty amazing woman. That said, I certainly had a song come to mind when I heard about her passing a couple weeks ago – it just so happens that the song which started playing in my head was Def Je...
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The Bedford Brass Quintet
Submitted by Beadford Beacon on 01.31.12 at 7:36am.
The Bedford Brass Quintet features five accomplished musicians who have played with many of Canada’s leading ensembles.
Based in Bedford, we perform at concerts, weddings and special events across Nova Scotia.
Planning a special event or fundraiser? The Bedford Brass Quintet makes it easy to in...
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Braids – Plath Heart
Submitted by Haute Halifax on 01.31.12 at 7:03am.
Just discovered this Canadian-born band called Braids, but I think they’ve been around for a year or so. They have an awesome sound that can be compared to Animal Collective. Check ‘em out!
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Favorites-of ’12:: The Just Barelys Mad Bits
Submitted by Herohill on 01.30.12 at 8:10am.
A few years ago, I tried to pressure The Just Barelys to put out a new record with an incessant amount of myspace queries (when that was actually still a thing) and blog posts. Jesus, if Twitter was half as popular as it is today or kickstarter existed, #justbarelyspleaserecord would have been tr...
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MARK KNOPFLER WAS IN HALIFAX
Submitted by The Newcomer on 01.30.12 at 8:06am.
OK, not really. I have to say, the resemblance seemed much greater and more hilarious when you were downing a Guinness on a Friday night. And Mark Knopfler has a weakness for rust-coloured suits which these local bandsters do not dare pull off, preferring to stick to traditional garb of t-shirt a...
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Atrum adds another language to their arsenal. Plus: live at Wacken (video)
Submitted by Halifax Collect on 01.27.12 at 7:50am.
Extreme metallers (death / black / thrash respectively) Atrum quickly proved that they are a force to be reckoned with. Yet, in spite of critical acclaim and roaring approval from metal fans wide and far, they've remind relatively silent were no life dwells as opposed to flogging their bits at th...
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Favorites-of ’12:: Kathleen Edwards Voyageur
Submitted by Herohill on 01.26.12 at 7:36am.
Over time, pressure creates cracks in the foundation and fragments any stability of almost any structure, but when magical conditions are met, that same pressure can create diamonds.
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Southern Shores Remixes
Submitted by Herohill on 01.25.12 at 7:57am.
I now pretty much nothing about Work Drugs, other than the assumption that mine would be more enjoyable if I had some. Same goes for Wintercoats – I know not of the musical variety, but am familiar with utilizing one to keep the cold at bay. But I know this: Southern Shores are awesome. And becau...
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Backburner – Heatwave (Video)
Submitted by Herohill on 01.24.12 at 8:07am.
Well, it took a while to get reved up, but I think it’s safe to say that winter is well and truly upon us. This isn’t a huge deal, as I know our readers are a hearty folk, certainly capable of withstanding some snow, slush & frigid temps with good humour. But that’s not to say that a splash of su...
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MOUTHEATER - Colonial
Submitted by Halifax Connect on 01.24.12 at 8:00am.
Moutheater's Colonial comes into my life with a little bit of everything. And that's good for a change. They sound to me as a well established band who are into differnt things and pretty good at mixing these influences into a coherent whole.
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Quick Hitters: C. Sterling No Matter
Submitted by Herohill on 01.23.12 at 8:01am.
In the last few years, the number of acts presenting slight folk compositions bolstered by orchestral layers has grown to an all-time high. Pleasant and safe; while perfectly acceptable, aren’t really the descriptors you pine for when discovering a new band.
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In The Dead of Winter 2012
Submitted by Herohill on 01.19.12 at 7:26am.
Winter. You may not like it, but you cannot escape it. Unless you live somewhere where they don’t have winter, then kudos, you have escaped winter! For the rest of us though, it’s best to find some way to enjoy these frigid months. Outdoor activities are fine and dandy, goodness knows our new ska...
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Old School Tuesdays:: Special Ed – Legal
Submitted by Herohill on 01.17.12 at 7:53am.
I’ll happily cop to this post essentially being a re-up (except for the Come On Let’s Move It remix) of this rather enjoyable OSM from a couple years ago, but at this point I’ve done so many of these old school posts that repitition is inevitable. Plus it’s Special Ed! And on the cover he’s posin...
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Get in on the action with Plöw and In Siren
Submitted by Halifax Collect on 01.17.12 at 7:46am.
Stoner metallers Plöw (Denmark / Iceland) have been in these digi-pages before. What's to report this time around then?, you ask. Well, they've made their debut EP, Bicentennial Picnic, available for streaming and download in two different locations; bandcamp and Gogoyoko.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
Submitted by Haute Halifax on 01.17.12 at 7:34am.
We’re back with another playlist! Enjoy it.
1. Carousel – Get Up
2. Yppah – ‘D Song’
3. Mighty Mike – You Know Video Games (Two Door Cinema vs. Lana Del Ray)
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Notes To Self – All of the Above
Submitted by Herohill on 01.16.12 at 8:16am.
This one here seems like a good choice to close out what was a fairly wacky winter week – out here in Halifax at least. The guys from T.O. hip hop outfit Notes To Self sent us their new video a few days ago, and it is pretty much, to use their own description, “as cancon as it gets”.
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Quick Hitters:: Carly Maicher Hiding
Submitted by Herohill on 01.13.12 at 8:03am.
There’s probably an endless number of reasons an email from Carly Maicher might sit untouched in your inbox for weeks or you might miss her record on the shelves of your local record shop. The Manitoba based songwriter writes and performs subtle, spare folk songs under her own name and prefers to...
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CASIOKIDS - Aabenbaringen over aaskammen
Submitted by Halifax Collect on 01.12.12 at 7:49am.
Every couple of years or so, I catch myself absolutely hating on a genre of music. It’s so easy these days. We’re exposed to so much stuff at once that it seems we’ve all reverted to funny and jabbing genre names, whose ability to represent the music are moot at best, in order to gain a sense of ...
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Win a pink 7″ from Weekend Dads
Submitted by Herohill on 01.11.12 at 7:43am.
Sure, the headline sounds like the creepiest, sexual predator Craigslist ad possible, but Halifax/Moncton pop punkers Weekend Dads are making some ear pleasing noise these days and we are more than happy to help them get the word out.
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MORAL WORTH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ARTISTIC TALENT
Submitted by The Newcomer on 01.11.12 at 7:42am.
I love, love, love how mature and smart Christina [Aguilera] is. I mean, I’ve always liked that about her, but I love it when people are able to be good about breakups and divorce for their kids. I cannot WAIT for her new album! (random internet comment)
Dear people of the world: this is a reall...
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Long Weekends Don’t Reach Out
Submitted by Herohill on 01.10.12 at 8:41am.
When we last heard from Halifax’s Long Weekends, they were giving away a four-song EP that filtered their fun loving, hard driving garage hooks through a swampy filter with fantastic results. Since then, the trio has stormed the stages of Sappyfest and started to deliver on the hooky potential th...
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Rise Again
Submitted by Richard Levangie's blog on 01.10.12 at 7:35am.
A song by the late and dearly-missed Stan Rogers. As it filled the office today, I tried to take the message to heart.
Rise again, rise again — though your heart it be broken
And life about to end
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…in which McNutt shares his top albums of 2011
Submitted by McNutt Against The Music on 01.9.12 at 8:51am.
Yeah, yeah, I know…I crazy procrastinated on this one.
I have my reasons: after a crazy busy fall—amped up day job, occasional freelance work, and a course where I wrote a 6,600-word paper on Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone”—the last thing I felt like doing over the holidays was writing.
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Cover Time
Submitted by Haute Halifax on 01.9.12 at 7:30am.
Oh hey, music Monday! I posted the original of this song on one of my playlists a few months ago, but this cover is too awesome not to share. This video has been blowing up Facebook, so, if you haven’t seen it yet, enjoy.
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Cold Specks / Basket of Figs Holland Demo
Submitted by Herohill on 01.5.12 at 7:41am.
Last month, newest Arts & Crafts signee Cold Specks cannon balled into the blog buzz pool and the splash created some 50-year storm, Point Break sized swells (“no way Cold Specks is bigger than Waimea, bro”).
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Shotgum Jimmie covers Apollo Ghosts
Submitted by Herohill on 01.4.12 at 7:57am.
… and the world rejoices.
Exaggeration? Yes, but honestly, if we were allowed to pick two bands to play the last show we’d ever attend, Shotgun Jimmie and Apollo Ghosts would be in the running. It’s so refreshing to find a talented band blessed with humility and that actually gives a shit a...
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Music videos: Jeff Waters, Gang Related, Rosvo, Volture, Wormrot, Jeff Loomis
Submitted by Halifax Collect on 01.4.12 at 7:48am.
Rosvo - Seasick
"Nevermind the nuclear meltdown, I want to dance in the streets of Tokyo as if it was all a dream... All a dream..."
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Quick Hitters:: Moka Only – Martian Xmas 2011
Submitted by Herohill on 12.21.11 at 8:04am.
The Holiday Season is hectic. You know this. I know this. And, thankfully, Moka Only knows this. That’s why, for many years running (7 perhaps? I’m not sure), the most prolific man in hip hop has created his annual Martian Xmas album to help us chillax to his unique brand of off the wall smoothne...
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Alex was a punk rocker
Submitted by Frank Magazine blog on 12.21.11 at 7:38am.
I'll always be a punk rock fan. I grew up on the stuff. From the early days of the Dead Kennedys and The Clash, to my 90s staple NOFX, and three decades of Bad Religion (and counting).
My music taste has evolved over the years, as most do.
My iTunes features music ranging from celtic to techno....
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Quick Hitters:: Jerry Leger The Good Old Days Are Back in Drag
Submitted by Herohill on 12.20.11 at 8:00am.
I’ve been a fan of Jerry Leger for a while now, but even with the strength of his songs and the surprising depth of the characters he creates (considering his age), I’ve never thought his recording style fully matched his potential. The young songwriter is raw – in terms of the emotion he exposes...
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…in which McNutt shares his top songs of 2011
Submitted by McNutt Against The Music on 12.19.11 at 9:04am.
It felt like beauty and the beat out there.
On the one hand, music has rarely seemed dancier: the rise of dubstep, the electro stranglehold on the charts, a four-on-the-floor fetish the likes of which we haven’t seen since the heydays of disco.
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Quick Hitters:: Chocolate Robots – P i Z z A f A c E
Submitted by Herohill on 12.16.11 at 7:08am.
So another year is rapidly coming to a close, and once again the Ack and I find ourselves asking the same old question: “why won’t Justin Bieber ever reply to any of our many, many emails?”. I’m kidding there of course, we don’t like Justin Bieber (WE LOVE HIM). But really, the question we’ve fac...
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Quick Hitters:: Audrey and the Agents
Submitted by Herohill on 12.14.11 at 8:17am.
Enough with all the Christmas songs! Is what I imagine some of you out there are likely saying by now. I myself am not mad at the Christmas songs really, I mean, I like to think of myself as a moderately festive person, but sure, I could see how people could feel bombarded by the holiday tunes at...
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Rusty Warren!
Submitted by Alice in Paris Loves Art and Tea on 12.13.11 at 6:59am.
I spotted this album in a small thrift store the other day. I was fascinated by the hairdo and snow or maybe glitter sprinkled on it. Had to take a picture to show you. Well, one thing led to another and when I got home, I looked up Rusty Warren.
Who knew? Taken directly from Wikipedia...
Known...
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Time traveling with Milk Music, Dinosaur Jr., Cannibal Corpse and Stafrænn Hákon
Submitted by Halifax Collect on 12.12.11 at 8:02am.
The last 24 hours have been spent going back in musical time. It started with the surprisingly good and informative Cannibal Corpse documentary Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years. This film is great. Not only is the Corpse's history, rise to fame and respect very interesting but it gives gr...
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The sun will come out tomorrow..
Submitted by Laura Beth's blog on 12.9.11 at 9:04am.
And it did! I was having one of the worst nights last night, where I was drowning in my own trials and fears and I started writing about it. It was some heavy stuff. Raw, exposed emotion which in many ways makes me sound pretty pathetic right now. It's true, I am.
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Merry Christmas from Apollo Ghosts & The Honky Tonk Kid
Submitted by Herohill on 12.9.11 at 8:43am.
Or, Merry Christmas from the best band in Canada right now. Yip, I said it. Vancouver’s Apollo Ghosts not only deliver a never ending supply of amazing (and free) jams, they put on the most enjoyable straight ahead live show in the business. No gimmicks, just sincere enjoyment and non stop energy...
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Bedford Leisure Club Christmas concert
Submitted by Bedford Beacon blog on 12.9.11 at 8:35am.
The Bedford Leisure Club cordially invites all to our annual Christmas concert.
Friday, December 9 at 2 p.m. at the Bedford Lawn Bowling Club.
Come hear our orchestra and women’s vocal ensemble in holiday classics…from the Nutcracker to the Chipmunks.
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Video:: Happy Birthday, Tom Waits
Submitted by Herohill on 12.7.11 at 8:27am.
Sixty two years old. It’s crazy to think Tom Waits is that old or that young really. It’s crazy to think of him as more than a moment in time, like he should be measured in empirical units or unique increments of time. Thankfully, he’s still writing fantastic songs and inspiring the downtrodden, ...
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Reviews:: Gescha – Crayon Politics
Submitted by Herohill on 11.30.11 at 8:15am.
This is kind of a (Car)melo-dramatic (topical, ’cause the NBA is back!) statement, but Gescha’s album Crayon Politics is the kind of album that validates my continued work on the hill. I’m late getting around to posting it, but I’m happy to help spread the word about a guy that will easily be you...
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Lennon Times Two On PBS
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 11.26.10 at 8:12am.
John Lennon’s 70th birthday is being celebrated by a trio of films, two of which are being shown on American Public Television (PBS) this week at various times on their series Masterpiece Theatre and American Masters.
Lennon Naked is a British TV movie with Doctor Who actor Christopher Eccles...
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Maddison Avenue's New CD: Sweet Renegade
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 11.10.10 at 8:00am.
Halifax musician Keith Maddison isn’t afraid to think big, or to feel big emotions for that matter.
The singer/songwriter/guitarist heads up the East Coast Americana R’n’B outfit Maddison Avenue, who will shortly release their blazing first full-length CD, entitled Sweet Renegade, by the middl...
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The Stones 'Exile' N.S. Connection
Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 05.25.10 at 7:09pm.
The media swirl around the re-release of the Rolling Stones classic 1972 album Exile On Main Street has revolved mostly around the 1o new tracks unearthed and polished up for one of the new editions of the landmark double disc.
What’s been missed in all of this is the Nova Scotia connection. T...
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All You Need is Hal Bruce
Submitted by Kim Kinrade on 02.13.09 at 11:51am.
The tribute band industry began with Elvis impersonators in the 1970’s. When Elvis died the numbers blossomed. The Beatles were next and, today, Australian Pink Floyd is one of the biggest tribute shows on stage. So where does one guy get the brass ones to take on a tribute to the most famous ban...
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HPX 3: Holy Frig
Submitted by AineCaitriona on 10.24.08 at 11:47am.
Halifax loves a good dance party. Last night at the Marquee was a beautiful cross-section of the local music scene, with everyone from headbangers to indie kids to dirty hippies showing up to check out Toronto experirockers Holy Fuck. While downstairs in Hell’s Kitchen local bands The Beginners a...
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