Believe it or not, 2016 is already half over. Gone are the days of shovelling (for now) and the summer heat and holidays are in full swing. 2016 has already been a great year for music on the East Coast, from festivals and awards to music videos and albums. With countless summer parties on the horizon, you need some of the best new east coast music on your playlist. Here are our favourite songs released by east coast artists so far in 2016: Continue reading The Best Music Of 2016 (So Far)
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The Eighth Annual Best Of Saint John Music Winners
Friday, in a public ceremony held at the Sanctuary Theatre on Germain Street, Local 107.3fm honoured Adam Kierstead, and other musicians of Saint John. Continue reading The Eighth Annual Best Of Saint John Music Winners
New Music: Shotgun Jimmie’s ‘Field of Trampolines’
‘Field of Trampolines’ is Shotgun Jimmie’s summer anthem for the adventures of young twenty-somethings. Written on the tail-end of a summer-long Canadian tour and produced in a four-day recording stint by Nova Scotia’s own star, Joel Plaskett, the album echoes late night campfires, beach days, and road trips. Continue reading New Music: Shotgun Jimmie’s ‘Field of Trampolines’
A Letter To Professional Artists In New Brunswick
Pauline Bourque is the former Executive Director, as well as the former President of the Board of Directors, of the New Brunswick Arts Board. In an open letter to the artists of the province she describes what is at stake with ArtsNB being absorbed by the Department of Tourism, Heritage, and Culture. Continue reading A Letter To Professional Artists In New Brunswick
Peer Review: The Best Music of 2015
2015 has always been premembered as the year we all get hoverboards and self-lacing shoes. Instead we got Islamophobia, Star Wars, and more of Miley Cyrus expressing her orifices. A mixed bag in general, but inarguably not our most brilliant moment this decade; a harbinger of our downward spiral, and the seemingly inevitable rise of President Trump in 2016. So what has brought us to this? If music is the articulation of our cultural zeitgeist, then what does the soundtrack to 2015 sound like? Rather than impose on you our tastes in music, we asked some of our favourite East Coast musicians about their favourite songs to come out this year by other East Coast musicians and this is what we got. Continue reading Peer Review: The Best Music of 2015