Just four months after the release of their debut album Loved It More Than You Could Ever Know, Charlottetown band Stabbing Joy have released a brand new single. And luckily, the track, titled ‘Adoration,’ is just as catchy as the rest of their music.
Continue reading Single: Stabbing Joy Close Out The Year With ‘Adoration’
Nathan Gill and Andrew Murray, both members of Prince Edward Island’s Two Hours Traffic and English Words, are living in a self-imposed exile. With a dissolution of bands and breakups, the two found themselves living in Toronto. It’s an unusual sort of place to look for miracles, unless they’re coming directly from the scripture, according to Drake or the Gospel of Neil Gaiman. But there, bathed in the warm glow of the string lights gracing Gill’s living-room, Baby God was born. Continue reading Music Video: Baby God Release Double Feature ‘Down Then Up / Marigold’
“Write what you know.” That lesson gets hammered into us again and again. For bands on the road, like Prince Edward Island’s The East Pointers, many songs are often about just that: life on road. From their sophomore LP What We Leave Behind, released in September 2017, the band are revisiting ‘Two Weeks,’ a song about travelling far away from friends and family to find work. Continue reading Single: The East Pointers Double Back on ‘Two Weeks’
They say you can never step into the same river twice. Capturing the current state of craft brewing in Atlantic Canada is much the same. The ever-increasing flood of new and developing breweries across the four Atlantic provinces is hard to track. That’s why when beer enthusiasts Whitney Moran and Christopher Reynolds set out to compile their definitive guide, ‘East Coast Crafted,’ they knew it could only ever be a snapshot. It just happens to be a glorious one at an exciting time in the industry. Continue reading East Coast Crafted: New Book Documents Atlantic Canadian Craft Breweries, Immediately Becomes Outdated
How many award-winning musicians can you fit on an island? The upcoming Music PEI Week in January should be able to answer that as they cram almost every one of their musicians and industry professionals into a conference room. We’ve even got the list of nominees for their 2018 Awards to give us an idea of who will be attending. Continue reading Catherine MacLellan, The East Pointers, Ashley Condon, and Dennis Ellsworth & Kinley Dowling Tied For 2018 Music PEI Awards
