Welcome to the end of 2020. All we’re going to say is that we’re glad to have survived and if we don’t get struck by a meteor tomorrow, we will call it a win.
Here is everything we covered in December of 2020. Continue reading Monthly Roundup: December 2020
When we said that 2019 was leaving us well prepared for whatever 2020 might bring, we might have been just a touch over-confident. We were looking at a year when festivals were making slight adjustments in the wake of Shambala shifting its dates. Instead, we saw a year without live music and… well, everything else.
In a year of big news from around the world, here are our top stories from 2020.
For an industry under siege, Atlantic Canada’s musicians seem to have turned out a more than respectable effort this year. You’ve already heard from our reviewers on who we felt knock it out of the park over the course of 2020. Now, as per tradition, we’ve asked some of our favourite musicians who their favourites were. Here’s what the pros had to say.
Continue reading Peer Review: The Best Music of 2020
It’s time for The East’s very scientific and democratically sorted list of The Best Music of 2020. As you can imagine, it was quite the year and whatever challenges we faced, we did our best to face them together.
Everything, this is, except for this list. You would not believe the amount of bloodshed we endured to arrive at this moment, the number of bloodied noses, bruised egos and fatally demoralized interns.
Please know, dear reader, that we do this for you, without complaint, as our honour-bound duty. Please, enjoy. Continue reading The Best Music of 2020
“When you’re making rock records, you don’t need to overthink production…we can make great rock ‘n’ roll records in this garage.”
As I’m sitting in a small, cramped back room of a house nestled deep in Halifax’s north end I’m flanked on my right side by an old washer and dryer. To the left, a pile of jackets and a stack of skateboards. A half-eaten open-face sandwich sits on the coffee table in front of me.
You wouldn’t guess that this space is the new laboratory of two prominent Halifax rock acts. Continue reading The Future of Music is DIY: A Conversation with Alex MacNeil and Andy MacInnis
