All posts by Brian Conoley

Music

New Music: PEI’s Little Cities Only Need 20 Minutes to Prove Punk’s not Dead with ‘Friends Floors’

Something happened to you the other day – you got old. It happened so subtly. Step by step, you relocated to the bar at the back of the show, you barely pump your fist anymore and you wish the damn headliner would come on already. It’s almost 10:30pm for God’s sake!

No ones blaming you. You would be an idiot to throw down in the pit, on a weeknight, with work in the morning. However, this doesn’t mean you don’t deserve some new tunes on your commute, that make you sing at the top of your lungs, the way punk used to… even if your car windows are rolled up these days

Thankfully you don’t have to rely on your crusty, old CD book as your only source for anthemic, hook infected choruses anymore. Prince Edward Island’s Little Cities have tapped into their collective nostalgia mine to crank out a debut EP, well worthy of sitting on the shelf next to many pop-punk classics. Welcome back everybody, to Friend’s Floors. Continue reading New Music: PEI’s Little Cities Only Need 20 Minutes to Prove Punk’s not Dead with ‘Friends Floors’ →

Music

New Music: Tampa’s ‘Belated Love’ Is The Summer Album You’ve Been Waiting For

Are you a winter whiner? Are you dreaming of the day when you can roll down your car window and play airplane with your hand? Well park yourself in front of a window, crank up the volume and let Tampa’s extraordinarily warm Belated Love melt that snow. Continue reading New Music: Tampa’s ‘Belated Love’ Is The Summer Album You’ve Been Waiting For →

Food & Drink

Niche Brewing Aims To Fill The Gaps In New Brunswick’s Craft Beer Market

The team behind Niche Brewing, Fredericton’s newest brewery, are not what you’d imagine belonging to a modern species of craft brewers. They don’t possess any of the stereotypical qualities: no big shappy oil-dapped beards framing a couple of round-spectacled faces and topped with dock worker tuques. It is not only the first wave of Shawn Meek and Rob Coomb’s beers that are flying in the face of what people might now come to expect when they think of “craft beer,” it is how little they care about what’s trendy and how much they care about what’s tasty. Continue reading Niche Brewing Aims To Fill The Gaps In New Brunswick’s Craft Beer Market →