Thomas Stajcer, Nova Scotia’s great country troubadour, is keeping up the good fight on behalf of analog folks everywhere. His tongue-in-cheek protest song, “Who Will Listen To Country Music When Trucks Drive Themselves?” champions the need for ear-having peoples to hold their place behind the wheel. It calls for bartenders to remain tender. It insists that John Deere lawn tractors are maintained at their current IQ levels. Continue reading Music Video: Thomas Stajcer Rises Up Against Our Robot Overlords on ‘Who Will Listen To Country Music When Trucks Drive Themselves?’
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Music Video: Owen Meany’s Batting Stance Reminds You to Check the Engine Light of Your Relationship with ‘Car Odyssey’
The best art, arguably, is capable of confronting you with things you had previously never realized about yourself. Of course, the most obvious and unfortunate clichéd side-effect of this is the screaming fan who insists that a song was written about them with no factual evidence to support this. Owen Meany’s Batting Stance’s most recent single, “Car Odyssey,” however, hits home in a way that is surprisingly personal. Continue reading Music Video: Owen Meany’s Batting Stance Reminds You to Check the Engine Light of Your Relationship with ‘Car Odyssey’
New Music: Plural Makes a Singular Debut with ‘Trip Key’
Trip Key is the first release from Halifax’s looping, Math Rock duo Plural. The record is a collection of seven instrumental tracks, clearly inspired by (and aimed at) the vibrant yet chill audiences of Atlantic Canada’s camping music festival scene. Continue reading New Music: Plural Makes a Singular Debut with ‘Trip Key’
Music Video: Like A Motorcycle Release One of the Greatest Videos of 2020 with ‘Punk Two (Dead Broke)’
Not to jump the gun on throwing anyone a parade for video of the year, but Like A Motorcycle have a pretty clear shot at taking that particular prize. To celebrate the release of their new album, Dead Broke, the Halifax-based band has simultaneously put out a video for “Punk Two,” the most glorious bit of cinematography ever dedicated to capturing the dark and desperate path that can lead a life to underground Kraft Dinner eating contests. Continue reading Music Video: Like A Motorcycle Release One of the Greatest Videos of 2020 with ‘Punk Two (Dead Broke)’
Single: The Summer Rabbit Prepare for Halloween with ‘Howl into the Night’
The return of The Summer Rabbit just before Halloween is not coincidental. “Howl into the Night” is the Halifax-based trio’s first new track in two years, and in the fine tradition of getting the hairs on the back of our necks trussed up for the season, the song was inspired by eerie dreams and “the ever-approaching fear of the unknown.” Continue reading Single: The Summer Rabbit Prepare for Halloween with ‘Howl into the Night’