We’ve reached the end of Festival Season. At least the bulk of it. We’ll be picking off stragglers for some time yet, but there won’t be many more long weekends away from our desks, sifting through a few thousand photos in the back of a field. With Harvest Jazz & Blues out of the way (see our Patreon feed below) we can indulge in the great sin of our generation: a sedentary lifestyle. Still, it means there’s a lot of festival recaps on the way, and few surprises besides.
Welcome to the final days of Summer. It blew past in a blur of festivals and deadlines. We’re still catching up with it all, and trying to squeeze in the last bit of sunshine all at the same time. Have a look at what we covered in August 2019, instead of sitting beachside. Continue reading Monthly Roundup: August 2019→
July: arguably the best month. It is a time of patios, music festivals, perpetually moist brows, and peak lake absorption rate. We’ve been making the best of it. Stay tuned as we roll out our coverage of some of Atlantic Canada’s best music festivals over the next month. Continue reading Monthly Roundup: July 2019→
Let’s just not talk about the state of the world in 2019. We can safely assume it’s burning. Neil Young had something to stay about that, but probably not in this context. Rather, let’s focus on the music that’s being created despite it.
Through careful research and data collection, our team at The East have been able to scientifically catalogue, dissect, and distill every tasty little earful to arrive at this: our list for The Best Music of 2019 (so far).
Since the dawn of the music industry it has been declared that June would be a month of singles being released just in time to hype music festivals and tours. Uncoincidently, it also corresponds to the spawning of a sufficient number of mosquitos to dampen any enthusiasm for the former. This is a necessary step in the circle of life: music festivals beget mosquitos, which in turn travel up the food chain until your heart gets broken in the fourth grade, leaving a void that can only be filled through a lifelong addiction to music. Thus, the cycle is completed.
Famously, science has proven that soda exists independently of this cycle, and yet arrives at the same results, but at least no one gets hurt. Life is a curious thing.
