North Of Nowhere have been going through some hell. “Tomorrow,” the latest single from the Nova Scotian high-energy rock band spells it out for us as they belt out “everything seems so pointless now.”
The song is a culmination of sorts; a boiling point, having endured a vast range of emotions during the Covid lockdowns across their home province. But they’re not dead yet and they’re not holding back either. Continue reading North of Nowhere Rage Against the Dying of the Light on ‘Tomorrow’
Sunnyside Uppers’ latest single, “Mary,” journeys down the rabbit hole, embracing an arthouse approach to absurdism and Jurassic Park on the way towards romance. At least, that’s our best guess. Continue reading Premiere: Sunnyside Uppers Reinforce That Life Finds a Way With ‘Mary’
Not all plans turn out exactly as you might have planned, but they can still turn out for the best. It took up-ending her entire life for Cape Breton’s Elyse Aeryn to arrive at “Bittersweet High.” Her new alt-rock single is a complete shake-up of everything from her career, to her love life, to her music and a glimpse of things to come. Continue reading Elyse Aeryn Undergoes a Reinvention for ‘Bittersweet High’
There are some places in New Brunswick that are simply drenched in nostalgia. There are quiet stretches of wooded countryside that stand in as a living memory for many, largely due to the fact that they’ve changed very little in the last century. The Kingston Peninsula, wedged between the Kennebecasis and St. John (Wolastoq) Rivers, is one of those places. The sporadic farmhouses found along its roads are largely the same farmhouses that stood there a hundred years ago, and the same dusty lanes still wind along the fields, down towards the river’s edge.
These are the same “Dusty Roads” that Nova Scotian 6-piece, Americana-influenced band Cut, Split & Delivered are singing about on their new single, but they might have been found almost anywhere. Continue reading Cut, Split & Delivered Craft a Nostalgic Ode to the Kingston Peninsula’s ‘Dusty Roads’
Former TEEN-member and Halifax-export Lizzie Lieberson, AKA Lizzie Loveless, is on the edge of releasing an album as an act of re-emergence into the world. In the wake of health complications that quashed TEEN’s tour plans, Lizzie Loveless has had to undergo a re-invention of herself and her career. Those challenges have a way of putting things into perspective—though, as her new Charles Billot-directed video for “Memory” demonstrates, the harsher flipside of perspective is withdrawal. Continue reading Lizzie Loveless Mourns the Mixed Blessing of Forgetting With ‘Memory’
