In the early rush of craft breweries to hit the New Brunswick market, Off Grid Ales quickly made a name for themselves, partly due to their flavourful and hoppy as heck double IPA and the charm of its two owners, Denise and Randy Rowe. As the brewery’s name implies, they were also about to distinguish themselves as the province’s only off-grid craft brewery.
After the release of Dangerous Home in 2019, award-winning Prince Edward Island musician Alicia Toner raised the bar for crafting songs of a personal nature. Covering an assortment of abuses, self-afflicted and otherwise, and the challenges of struggling to maintain a solid footing on her mental health while several factors independently and collectively worked to erode that foundation, the album laid bare some difficult to address themes in a cold and honest light.
There’s not much left of English poet Robert Southey left in Jah’Mila’s new single, “Sugar & Spice.” Known for having toured the world as a supporting vocalist with legendary acts such as The Wailers, Black Uhuru, Groundation, and Richie Spice, Jah’Mila finds more inspiration in the works of British-Jamaican artists like Carroll Thompson, Ken Boothe, Dennis Brown, and Marcia Griffiths than the 19th-century nursery rhyme. Continue reading Jah’Mila’s New Single ‘Sugar & Spice’ is Everything Nice About Coming Home→
There comes a point in the lives of many people when they look up from their game of Edward Fortyhands and realize that they’re the oldest person sitting at the beer pong table. Their friends have long ago lost interest, grown-up and moved on to a fabulous lifestyle of lawn maintenance and RRSP contributions.
Having spent a good bit of his life working from the road, both as a sheet metal worker and as a high-kickin’ rock-n-roller’, Andre Pettipas is no stranger to homesickness. As much as musicians love touring, on some level, the desire to run screaming for your most familiar four walls remains a near-universal affliction.
