It’s been ten months. Ten everlasting months since Donald Trump first announced his campaign for the American Presidency, and worst of all, the bastard might actually win. He’s used fear, and racism, and misogyny to build a platform from which he can march across America’s collective id clear to the finish line. But it wasn’t ten months ago that we reached any sort of tipping point that set off this chain of events, or seventy years ago. It wasn’t two hundred years, or even two hundred thousand. We weren’t playing chicken with any ledge. We got here step by step, on our long journey back into the sea. We’ve been doomed from the beginning, but as some consolation we have the beauty of Wintersleep’s new video for ‘Amerika’ to remind us of our bittersweet impermanence. Continue reading Wintersleep Show Us Amerika And The Future Of Trump
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The Town Heroes Strip Down
Mike Ryan and Bruce Gillis are known as The Town Heroes for good reason: they manage to make an awful lot of sound for just the two of them, spreading laughter and shenanigans wherever they go. That being said, when the occasion calls for it, they can bust out an acoustic rendition that’ll have the whole house party swaying and singing along. Thus the release of their acoustic EP, Closer, replete with four folky renditions of favourites from their last two albums. Continue reading The Town Heroes Strip Down
New Music: Elephant Skeletons’ ‘The Traveller Pt. 1’
Admittedly, I’ve long equated electronic music to nothing more than the muffled hip hop beats pulsating out of rusted Sunfires in a high school parking lot. But Elephant Skeletons’ latest EP ‘The Traveller Pt. 1’ has proven to me that this notion was ill informed and limited. My own inexperienced musical palette and blatant disregard for a whole genre of music left me with the taste of embarrassment, but with the forgiving overtones of fresh discovery. Continue reading New Music: Elephant Skeletons’ ‘The Traveller Pt. 1’
Polls Close For Best Of Saint John Music April 30th
The eighth annual Best of Saint John Music Awards are just around the corner, leaving less than two weeks left to vote for the city’s most cherished music moments of 2015. There are thirteen categories including best artist, album, group, song, artwork and more.
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New Music: David Myles’ ‘Here Now’
With his latest offering, Here Now, David Myles has surely solidified himself as the Pop Prince of the East Coast. Continue reading New Music: David Myles’ ‘Here Now’