Rich Aucoin’s upcoming album, Release, has a new video for “The Mind,” and despite being the second lyric-less track to be released, it’s another piece in the puzzle that points towards a concept album. Continue reading Music Video: Rich Aucoin Combines the Foreign and the Familiar with ‘The Mind’
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Music Video: Steven Lambke Channels Leonard Cohen with ‘White Horses’
Steve Lambke has a definite style. His quiet punctuated thoughts tend to dissolve half-whispered into pop jangles, but paired with Roddy Carlyle on bass and Daniel Romano on guitar and “White Horses” finds the same balance that Leonard Cohen finds on “Master Song.” If you can substitute an ape with angel glands for six white horses then you’ve got this new track from Lambke’s album, Dark Blue. Continue reading Music Video: Steven Lambke Channels Leonard Cohen with ‘White Horses’
Halifax Jazz Festival Announce Bahamas, First Aid Kit and More for 2019
Tasked with topping last year’s performance by Chaka Khan, the TD Halifax Jazz Festival might be hard pressed to pull together a sufficiently impressive lineup but they’re off to a good start. Today’s announcement included the first five acts for the festival’s Waterfront Stage and St. Paul’s Church Series. Continue reading Halifax Jazz Festival Announce Bahamas, First Aid Kit and More for 2019
Music Video: Alicia Toner Becomes the ‘Woman in Red’ for ‘Dangerous Home’
Alicia Toner’s latest single, “Dangerous Home,” tackled some very serious subject matter; the perceived social obligation of maintaining a cool and collected demeanor when your emotional and mental state is anything but. Toner expresses herself on the fragile uncertainty of living without a net and the upset of being deprived of that safest of spaces: home. Continue reading Music Video: Alicia Toner Becomes the ‘Woman in Red’ for ‘Dangerous Home’
Music Video: Dazor Get Greasy with ‘All Night’
Leaning in hard with a sound that might have been born the greasy lovechild of Andrew WK and Dave Grohl, and a noisy 90s look to match, Halifax’s Dazor releases a new video for “All Night.” Continue reading Music Video: Dazor Get Greasy with ‘All Night’