“Before the Beatles, before the Stones, Rock & Roll was born” is the tag line for Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story which chronicles, well, Buddy Holly as he struggles to make a name for himself playing rock’n’roll in a time where country dominated mainstream airwaves, racial segregation was still common place, and shaking your hips on stage wasn’t just a sin, it was illegal. Continue reading In Review: KV Player’s Producton Of ‘Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story’
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Single: Aftersurf Revisit The Sixities With ‘You Wanted To’
New Brunswick summers are something to be experienced. When the sky isn’t dropping down buckets of water, the sun is roasting people like ants to a magnifying glass, and ‘You Wanted To’– the first single from Miramichi surf/ psych group Aftersurf’s first album Solipsism – is perfect for the days when all you can do to beat the heat is pile all your friend in your red corvette convertible and head to the nearest beach. Continue reading Single: Aftersurf Revisit The Sixities With ‘You Wanted To’
Quality Block Party v1.2: Saint John Gets Permanent Music Festival
Quality Block Party – the festival that aimed to bring the independent music of New Brunswick to the forefront, as well as hold its own, during the chaos that was the East Coast Music Awards – is rolling back onto the streets of Uptown Saint John with version 1.2 from August 10th to 13th ! This iteration of Quality Block will have the city to itself, the ECMA’s having come and gone, allowing for the festival to have a bit of room to breathe and further develop its character. Continue reading Quality Block Party v1.2: Saint John Gets Permanent Music Festival
Quality Block Party: Bleedin’ Saint John
Quality Block Party is no ordinary festival: it’s something Saint John has needed for a long time. The city has been nursing its fair share of underground music and art for years, it just needed someone who was willing to take a chance on it. Continue reading Quality Block Party: Bleedin’ Saint John
Music Video: Rosewood Annie’s ‘Vices’
Halifax based post-hardcore outfit Rosewood Annie have just released a music video for ‘Vices’, the lead single for their upcoming album ‘To Whom it may Concern’; and in the proud tradition of punk music videos it is gloriously dumb. Continue reading Music Video: Rosewood Annie’s ‘Vices’