The look. The chops. The vibe. Halifax’s Campbell and Johnston are checking all those boxes. Having formed in 2013, they’re sneaking up on a decade together with the release of their latest album Black Market Band. Continue reading Campbell & Johnston’s ‘Black Market Band’ Ain’t Your Granddaddy’s Blues
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The Vesuvius Big Band’s Debut Live Album is a Noir Eruption
Artists have emerged from the draught of live work and are understandably incredibly eager to jump into venue-shaped oases with audiences once more. With the hopeful return of live performances this year, we are surely in for a surge of live albums over the next while. And making their debut with a live recording, The Vesuvius Big Band has captured an absolutely riveting snapshot of venturesome, volatile jazz on Live At Open Waters Festival. Continue reading The Vesuvius Big Band’s Debut Live Album is a Noir Eruption
Lizzie Loveless Gets Personal on a Health Crisis That Changed Her Career for New Single ‘The Joke’
It’s been two years since indie-pop group TEEN announced that after nearly a decade as a band—and much longer as sisters—they had arrived at their dissolution, stating “the music industry is not always kind and challenges our health and well being.” Now, from her New York apartment, former TEEN-member and Halifax-export Lizzie Lieberson, AKA Lizzie Loveless, has been piecing it all back together, embracing new relationships, looking back on what has passed with a sense of the bittersweet, and moving forward into the unknown.
Loveless’ latest single, “The Joke,” is a big part of moving forward or, at least, addressing those challenges to her health and well-being and how there’s no betrayal quite like the betrayal of your own body. Continue reading Lizzie Loveless Gets Personal on a Health Crisis That Changed Her Career for New Single ‘The Joke’
Legendary Drummer Jerry Granelli Passes Away in Halifax Home at the Age of 80
Drummer Jerry Granelli passed away today at the age of 80 in his home in Halifax. As a legendary figure in the jazz scene, and Halifax’s music scene, in particular, Granelli has left a mark on many musicians and a hole in his wake. Continue reading Legendary Drummer Jerry Granelli Passes Away in Halifax Home at the Age of 80
Blue Lobelia Reconnects to Nature Through Motherhood on New Single ‘Holding On Must Always Lead to Letting Go’
In 2019, Blue Lobelia’s Rachel Bruch was enjoying an artist residency at White Rabbit at Red Clay Art Farm in Upper Economy, Nova Scotia. She used that time to compose a songbook, while taking in the sight and sounds of the forest, experiencing motherhood for the first time, and connecting with nature.
Part of what emerged from her time of interconnectedness was the other side of that double-edged sword: a realization that, inevitably, “Holding on Must Always Lead to Letting Go,” her latest single. Continue reading Blue Lobelia Reconnects to Nature Through Motherhood on New Single ‘Holding On Must Always Lead to Letting Go’