It’s Friday, so in the immortal words of Greg Nice, “pass me an ice cold glass of wine”. The weekend is obviously the perfect time for ice cold wine, but it’s also the drink of choice today because I’m jamming out exclusively to Ghettosocks new mixtape We’re Gonna Drink A Lot Of Wine This Year,(…)
It’d been quite some time since we’d heard anything from Hamilton troublemakers The Dirty Nil. We posted their debut single Fuckin’ Up Young last year, but outside of an appearance on The Teenage Kicks single series tribute to Levon Helm, there’d been no new music from the Nil. Why the delay in putting out something(…)
Mondays, right? This guy knows what I’m talking about. Normally Mondays don’t faze me, but I’m dragging my ass today and was in desperate need of a boost. I found that boost in the form of Left of the Golden Era, a rather nifty mixtape from Steely Chan. Steely Chan are a Toronto-based (via Vancity)(…)
In general, most mixtapes have some element of fun to them, but you’re going to have a hard time getting more enjoyment than those done by the best DJ Bedford Nova Scotia ever produced: Skratch Bastid. The man known as Paul Murphy when he isn’t Bastid-izing the Technic 1200′s has to be one of the(…)
Man, if I had a dollar for every time someone asked me “Shane, where are the good Canadian hip hop mixtapes, you know, from folks that do that honest, True School rap music the way I like it?”, I would have many, many dollars. Or no dollars. It would certainly be somewhere between zero and(…)
The Ack did an excellent job yesterday of previewing the little showcase we help curate (oooh, curate, we’re fancy!) for the National Campus and Community Radio Conference taking place here in Halifax right now. That said, because talented Halifax duo Uncle Fester & Ambition will be hitting clean-up tonight at the show, I thought I’d(…)
Ok, now we’ve got something! If you’re looking for some sounds to put some pep in your step, and some strut in your Saturday and Sunday for that matter, look no further. Halifax’s DJ Uncle Fester, half of the amazing production/instrumental duo The Extremities, has just released his first mixtape – The Uncle Fester Show(…)
