Music

Peer Review: The Best Music of 2015

2015 has always been premembered as the year we all get hoverboards and self-lacing shoes. Instead we got Islamophobia, Star Wars, and more of Miley Cyrus expressing her orifices. A mixed bag in general, but inarguably not our most brilliant moment this decade; a harbinger of our downward spiral, and the seemingly inevitable rise of President Trump in 2016. So what has brought us to this? If music is the articulation of our cultural zeitgeist, then what does the soundtrack to 2015 sound like? Rather than impose on you our tastes in music, we asked some of our favourite East Coast musicians about their favourite songs to come out this year by other East Coast musicians and this is what we got. Continue reading Peer Review: The Best Music of 2015 →

Writing

Fredericton’s Paul McAllister Pens Children’s Book

From being the manager of the Capital Complex in the heart of Fredericton’s Tannery, to managing “Feels Good”, a multi-disciplinary arts event organizing company, and now writing children’s books, Paul McAllister is a modern day Fredericton hero. Continue reading Fredericton’s Paul McAllister Pens Children’s Book →

Music

Retrospective: Wooden Wives (2005-2015)

“Sunset and evening star,

And one clear call for me!

And may there be no moaning of the bar,

When I put out to sea.”

— “Crossing the Bar” Alfred Lord Tennyson

For a lot of us, Wooden Wives has been a fixture in the Saint John landscape, a benchmark for experimentation, collaboration, and what the local music scene can achieve by rolling up its sleeves. If you’ve gone to nearly any two shows in the Port City, chances are you’ve seen somebody play three sets by now. Hyperbole aside, this is the collaborative nature of the arts in Saint John, and for my five cents Wooden Wives embodies this ethic of building together and facilitating a thriving arts community. Continue reading Retrospective: Wooden Wives (2005-2015) →