The team behind Niche Brewing, Fredericton’s newest brewery, are not what you’d imagine belonging to a modern species of craft brewers. They don’t possess any of the stereotypical qualities: no big shappy oil-dapped beards framing a couple of round-spectacled faces and topped with dock worker tuques. It is not only the first wave of Shawn Meek and Rob Coomb’s beers that are flying in the face of what people might now come to expect when they think of “craft beer,” it is how little they care about what’s trendy and how much they care about what’s tasty. Continue reading Niche Brewing Aims To Fill The Gaps In New Brunswick’s Craft Beer Market
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New Music: Olympic Symphonium’s ‘Beauty In The Tension’ Maintains Band’s Status As Being Pretty Good
The Olympic Symphonium, New Brunswick’s champions of chamber pop, have released Beauty in the Tension, their fifth studio. Leaning into their strengths, the band remind us that not every album needs to be Appetite for Destruction (and to be fair, even at the very most, only one album does). Continue reading New Music: Olympic Symphonium’s ‘Beauty In The Tension’ Maintains Band’s Status As Being Pretty Good
New Music: Montgomery Street Band Challenge New Brunswick Living On ‘Quantum Internet’
The Montgomery Street Band, a four-piece bluegrass outfit out of Fredericton, have just released their first full-length album: Quantum Internet. The release features ten songs, some familiar and some brand new, and delivers a healthy dose of all the banjo, guitar and mandolin breakdowns you could ask for.
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New Music: Art of the Possible Favour Authenticity With Release of ‘Passerby’
Today, Fredericton’s 6-piece band Art of the Possible is releasing their debut EP Passerby after it spent years in the making. Mixing 90s grunge rock, jazz, blues and folk, this 6-track release delivers eclectic sounds made to inspire the energy of a live performance— something that is characteristically east coast and that Art of the Possible are no strangers to. Continue reading New Music: Art of the Possible Favour Authenticity With Release of ‘Passerby’
Marshall Studios: Fredericton Musicians Team Up For New Recording Studio
Two musicians announced today that they’ll be launching a new recording studio in Fredericton. East coast music fans should have no trouble recognizing the partnership behind Marshall Studios: Jay Merrill of Earthbound/Gordon Gets Lost and Stephen Lewis of The Big Band of Fun. Continue reading Marshall Studios: Fredericton Musicians Team Up For New Recording Studio