Admittedly, 2021 looks conspicuously a lot like 2020 with just a few alterations. Festivals have begun laying out their plans for the years… and quickly retracting them. Musicians continue to release music from their bedrooms. Theatres have announced productions that sound curiously like novellas or community television, depending on which approach they’ve taken.
Long story short, we’ve either mastered the skills at entertaining ourselves indoors or we’re doomed to go stir-crazy this time around.
Here is everything we covered in January of 2021.
Music News
Shivering Songs Goes ‘Hyperlocal’ for 2021 – Announces Jeremy Dutcher, Grand Theft Bus and More
January 5, 2021 – The East
Shivering Songs Festival Postpones to February, Jeremy Dutcher Dropping From Lineup
January 14, 2021 – Brandon Lorimer
Wolf Castle Sponsors New $3000 Prize for Indigenous Artists in New Brunswick
January 14, 2021 – Alex Cook
Theatre New Brunswick Brings Theatre to Your Mailbox with ‘Post Script’
Sloan’s Chris Murphy Diagnosed With Bell’s Palsy
January 27, 2021 – Heidi-Lyn O’Connor
Music Releases
The Strange Valentines Sign Off on the Apocalypse With ‘Burning House Waltz’
January 1, 2021 – Alex Cook
Mile Twenty Five’s ‘Just In Case’ a Superb First Collection
January 2, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
The Divorcees Put ’70s Country Along With a Bit of ‘Grit and Groove’ Into ‘Drop Of Blood’
January 8, 2021 – Matt Hayes
POSTDATA Casts Existential Dread in a Cheery Light on ‘Nobody Knows’
January 10, 2021 – Alex Cook
Zachary Greer Gives New Brunswick’s Last Fatal Duel a Dramatic Film Score, Releases First Single ‘Final Breath’
January 13, 2021 – Alex Cook
Lazermortis Proves That She’s a Force To Be Reckoned With on ‘Autonetic Highway’
January 15, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
The Backstays Dig Into the History of Saint John and Its Modern Counterparts on ‘No Hot Cargo’
January 15, 2021 – Alex Cook
Mo Kenney Releases a Lonesome Take on Daniel Romano’s ‘Hard On You’
January 15, 2021 – Alex Cook
Sundae Girl Show That They’re Serious With ‘Just For Fun’
January 16, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
The Stratified Flex Their Atlantic-Heavy Arsenal on ‘Lost in the Light’
January 18, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
Ian Janes Makes Repeatedly Getting Burned Sound Like a Great Time With ‘Shouldn’t Be Calling You’
January 19, 2021 – Alex Cook
Keeper E. Wields the Power of Subtle Synths on ‘Leaf in a River’
January 21, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
Kiwi Jr. Hits With Hooks Capable of Planetary Destruction on ‘Cooler Returns’
January 22, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
Dance Movie Make Their Long-Awaited Return With ‘Charm & Circumstance’
January 22, 2021 – Brandon Lorimer
Brandon Howard Roy Tackles His Own Anxiety on ‘The Fear’
January 22, 2021 by Maggie McLean
Zachary Greer Draws at 11 Paces With ‘The Duel’
January 23, 2021 – Camilo Villamizar
MichaelMichael Crafts an Electronica Coming-of-Age Story on ‘Gates of Janus (2015-2019)’
January 23, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
Andrew Waite Isn’t About To Let the Team Down on ‘I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That’
January 23, 2021 by Alex Cook
Williston Irvine Takes New Direction With Single ‘Heart on Fire’
January 25, 2021 – Micaela Cockburn
Virginia Fudge Returns With a Plea for Resolution on ‘Make Us Work’
January 26, 2021 – Alex Cook
Kylie Fox Shines as a Storyteller on ‘Green’
January 27, 2021 – Matt Hayes
Jon Hines Takes up the Torch of East Coast Blues on ‘Down to Funk’
January 28, 2021 – Matt Hayes
Troy Alistair Bring the Groove with Self-Titled Full-Length
January 29, 2021 – Brandon Lorimer
Duane Andrews and the Conception Bay String Quartet Honour Lynn Horne With ‘The Heart of Eastern Passage’
January 30, 2021 – Alex Cook
Video Releases
Justin Fancy Updates a Carter Family Hit from 1928 – ‘The Wildwood Flower feat. Ron Kelly’
January 7, 2021 – Alex Cook
Jah’Mila Turns Israel Vibration Classic on its Head for ‘Roots Girl’
January 8, 2021 – Alex Cook
Vince the Messenger Paves His Own Road on ‘Black Sheep’
January 8, 2021 – Matt Hayes
Kiwi Jr. Explore a Line-less and Empty Toronto on ‘Waiting in Line’
January 11, 2021 – Alex Cook
Aaron MacDonald Crafts the Impossible Feel-Good Song of 2021 With ‘Gonna Get There’
January 30, 2021 – Alex Cook
Literary News
Chuck Bowie’s New Novel ‘Her Irish Boyfriend: Donovan: Thief For Hire’ is a High Action Pub Crawl
January 11, 2021 – Jeremy Thomas Gilmer
The Frye Festival Welcomes Doucet and Bailhache to Their Team
January 28, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
Theatre News
Theatre New Brunswick Brings Theatre to Your Mailbox with ‘Post Script’
January 20, 2021 – Brandon Lorimer
Saint John Theatre Company Reveal Theatre Design Proposal for Historic Courthouse
January 29, 2021 – Alex Cook
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