Fire x Fire? Yes please. After that snowbomb-filled weekend I’d suggest you bring out all of the fire and try to melt some of these ludicrous snowbanks back down to functional size. Regardless of their inability to blowtorch my driveway clear, a new song from Toronto four piece Fire x Fire (or Fire By Fire)(…)
You know what, it’s a goddamn shame that the Ack moved to Upper Canada this summer, because I had my heart set on the two of us re-creating the modern dance-style routine from Glory Glory’s last video, You Need A Heart To Live, during their HPX 2012 performance. No matter, even without the visceral thrill(…)
Yes indeed the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Halifax Pop Explosion is but a mere week away from starting, and as you can plainly see via the use of an exclamation mark in the title of this post, this is exciting news. If you’re in Halifax and reading this, I have to assume you’re already(…)
What? It’s the middle of September and we’ve yet to put up a post featuring all the acts from the 20th edition of the Halifax Pop Explosion in huge-chunk-of words format? Well, let’s remedy that right now. Ado, Adventure Club, Ain’t No Love, Al Tuck, Ambersand, Ambition, Amos the Transparent, Andie Bulman, Andrew Bush, Astral(…)
Here’s how the Ack started his review for Christina Martin’s last album: It’s hard not to like Christina Martin. She’s charming, attractive, genuinely seems to appreciate her fans and the tradition that spawned her music, and she’s put in the kilometres needed to build a fan base. After being enchanted and entertained by this here(…)
Heeeeey, did you know Great Lake Swimmers are playing Halifax next month? Well they are, and you like them, so you should go. They are playing the Spatz/Kevin Smith Memorial Theatre with Julie Doiron, who you also like, A LOT, so why wouldn’t you go? They are also playing many other places in the next(…)
Perhaps you’ve noticed things are kind of a one man show around here over the last week or so – I’ve been trying to hold down the fort here on the hill as the Ack and his family complete their move to Upper Canada. It’s a bummer that they had to go – of course(…)
Whether for the Pop Explosion, In the Dead of Winter, or some other occasion, we’ve regularly espoused the virtues of Church shows here at the hill. That being the case, why should the 2012 version of the Halifax Jazz Fest be any different? Tonight, you can catch two of the more beautiful acts on the(…)
In Halifax and making plans for this evening? Why not hit Michael’s Bar & Grill to check out The Belle Comedians with Rain Over St. Ambrose and Dance Movie? I enjoyed their last EP, and we’ve talked in glowing terms about both ROSA and Dance Movie, so it seems like it would be a great(…)
In the immortal words of Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, Jazz, (We’ve Got). In fact, starting this weekend, we shall have all of the Jazz. The 25th Anniversary edition of the Halifax Jazzfest kicks off this weekend, and does so in fine style. Not only will there be a Jazz-party cruise featuring much-loved Halifax klezmer-funketeers Gypsophilia(…)
