Halifax-based Matt Steele & The Corvette Sunset have just released their debut album, ‘Songs for Catherine Anne’. Frontman of punk group Split Lips, Matt Steele is branching off into his first solo project, with a full album of catchy tracks ranging from folk-infused acoustic tunes to upbeat pop-punk. Continue reading New Music: Matt Steele & The Corvette Sunset’s ‘Songs For Catherine Anne’
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Premiere: Hillsburn Perform ‘With The Larks’ Live
We learn three things today. The first of which is exactly what sort of warm-up Halifax-based Hillsburn go for. They’re singing away ‘With The Larks’ in a new live video filmed by Old Crow Magazine, the folks who bring you all the artistic and cultural magic of Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland and Labrador. Continue reading Premiere: Hillsburn Perform ‘With The Larks’ Live
Halifax’s Marquee Ballroom Gets Its Own Last Waltz
Halifax is getting its own 40th celebration of the classic rockumentary ‘The Last Waltz’. Being held at the Marquee Ballroom, the show will be subbing in some of Nova Scotia’s musical talents for Canada classic rock legends The Band.
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New Music: Monomyth’s ‘Happy Pop Family’
Monomyth’s second album ‘Happy Pop Family’ is being released on Vancouver’s Mint Records today , and it’s a long slow swirl into bittersweet introspective melancholia, but you know, the happy kind you can dance to.
SNAP! CRACKLE! HALIFAX POP EX 2016!
It would seem that the attendees of this year’s Halifax Pop Explosion had silently taken a mail carriers vow before the festivities started on Wednesday. Through sun and rain (and wind and cold and near tropical humidity levels in the Forum and was that snow for a second there?) crowds appeared at the various stages to laugh, dance, mosh and shuffle their feet back and forth awkwardly, to the talent provided. Squadrons of coordinators, volunteers and staff flitted about the venues holding the sprawling event together, and doing it well I’ll add. Continue reading SNAP! CRACKLE! HALIFAX POP EX 2016!