With great events comes great responsibility. Festival organizers and sponsors alike are familiar with the Field Of Dreams business model: if you build it, they will come, and once you have them there you can sell them whatever you want, provided it’s beer. It’s an opportunity for events to secure sponsorship and for sponsors to take advantage of a captive audience. Too often, that means a monopoly being purchased by the company with the deepest pockets, selling their disappointing fizzy rice water at inflated prices to people with no other options. Halifax Pop Explosion Music Festival and Conference (HPX) has found that there’s a better way. Continue reading Halifax Pop Explosion Goes Local With Beer Sponsorship
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New Music: Alert The Medic Release ‘Let Them Have Their Fun’
Let Them Have Their Fun is an unexpected rejuvenation of Alert The Medic’s sound that no one saw coming. The first climb of the opening track ‘What Are The Odds’ propels the band to the top of a mountain, of which they refuse to come down from for an elating 42 minutes. The band has an extra jump in their step that will suck you into following their rhythm, with vocalist Ryan MacDonald’s infectious voice making it mandatory to sing along from the first chorus onward. Continue reading New Music: Alert The Medic Release ‘Let Them Have Their Fun’
New Music: Mo Kenney’s Future Award Winning Album ‘The Details’
Talk about hooks. Mo Kenney’s third album, The Details, grabs us with the tragic tale of woe and heartbreak and the impending doom of a cat. “I know you’ll try/ to take the bigger side/ but a cat’s not a cake.” Inside the first 35 seconds of the album we’re taken through this whirlwind of emotion, across what is essentially a sweet song, subjected to atrocities, and left in tears by our own tragic appreciation of dark humour. Just like that, we are hooked for whatever Mo Kenney wants us to hear for the next half hour. Continue reading New Music: Mo Kenney’s Future Award Winning Album ‘The Details’
Music Video: Like A Motorcycle Get Theraputic With ‘Dead Finger’
Halifax four-piece punk band Like a Motorcycle have just released the third single off their debut album High Hopes along with a video that takes us back in time about 90 years. Titled ‘Dead Finger,‘ the song dives deep into the wound of a love that has gone sour. Using music as a form of therapy, the band take an old relationship and turn it into something we can all relate—and yell along—to.
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ECMAs Announce Jonathan Torrens As Host… And We Think They’re Being Serious
The East Coast Music Awards will be returning to Halifax, Nova Scotia this year. In fact, it’s a big year for them: their 30th anniversary. A lot of people would jump on the chance to host the awards show. A lot. They could get just about any big East Coast name up there. This morning the Association made the surprise announcement that Jonathan Torrens will be holding down the podium, and we think they’re being serious. Continue reading ECMAs Announce Jonathan Torrens As Host… And We Think They’re Being Serious