At its recent annual meeting, the New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) elected Victoria Hutt as its new Chair. She succeeds Alain Boisvert, who was elected in late November of 2020 and served in this role to the end of his second mandate on the board. Continue reading The New Brunswick Arts Board Elects Victoria Hutt as New Chair
MusicNL Announce 2021 Industry Award Winners
MusicNL are currently enjoying their shortest year ever. Their Music Celebration Week is taking place between November 29 and December 5, 2021—with some of the longest eight months on record since their 2020 Awards show back in February. With the understandable unusual quirks in scheduling, MusicNL are about to double down on the festivities. Today, they announced the recipients of their 2021 MusicNL Music Industry Award winners. Continue reading MusicNL Announce 2021 Industry Award Winners
Monthly Roundup | November 2021
With November under our belts, we’re starring down the barrel of 2022. We’re prepping our year-end lists, crossing everything we can off of our to-do lists, and sweeping out the dark corners of our inboxes. There’s a lot left to squeeze out of the year and some of our biggest articles yet to come.
Here’s everything we covered in November of 2021. Continue reading Monthly Roundup | November 2021
North of Nowhere Ask You to Pick Up the Phone With Deeply Personal New Single ‘Oh Brother’
They say it’s never too late to say you’re sorry, but there are certain limitations—like, mortality, for instance—that do make apologizing more challenging. “Oh Brother,” the new single from North of Nowhere is an apology, delivered as a straight-ahead rock song, from one brother to another for the things they didn’t get quite right during their lifetime. Continue reading North of Nowhere Ask You to Pick Up the Phone With Deeply Personal New Single ‘Oh Brother’
Dennis Ellsworth-Fronted and Joel Plaskett-Produced Band The Moneygoround Debut With ‘Very Cherry’
You are probably already familiar with Prince Edward Island’s Dennis Ellsworth. He’s wracked up fourteen Music PEI Awards and collaborated with the likes of Gord Downie, Donovan Woods, Kinley Dowling and Drive-By-Truckers producer David Barbe. He has successfully navigated his way through the music industry for years but hasn’t quite felt at home in it. The Moneygoround, Ellsworth’s new band, takes its inspiration from The Kinks song of the same name and a general disdain for the mechanisms of the industry. Continue reading Dennis Ellsworth-Fronted and Joel Plaskett-Produced Band The Moneygoround Debut With ‘Very Cherry’