If you’ve had occasion to peruse the back catalogue of Good Charlotte, or most pop-punk acts for that matter, you might have picked up on a certain theme: they’ve given enough of their time to small-town shenanigans. Not Charlottetown’s Little Cities. The band has just released a new single called “Roots”, which celebrates their love of where they came from with what they describe as an “anti-pop punk song”. Continue reading Music Video: Little Cities Release Anti-Pop Punk Celebration of Hometowns, ‘Roots’
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New Music: Dennis Ellsworth Delivers Another Round of Sunshine on ‘Common Senselessness’
Common Senselessness is just about what you’d expect from a companion piece to Dennis Ellsworth’s 2019 album, Common Senseless. The five-track EP is a collection of songs that were left off of the original album. Ellsworth released them as an EP, but also bundled them into the original tracklist to make a Common Senseless (Deluxe Edition), available on Bandcamp. With this in mind, it’s only natural that the sound doesn’t take any major departures. Ellsworth’s carefree outlook and willingness to kick back and smoke away his problems is just as prevalent here. Continue reading New Music: Dennis Ellsworth Delivers Another Round of Sunshine on ‘Common Senselessness’
Hillsburn Becomes a Quartet With Departure of Songwriter Paul Aarntzen
Hillsburn, the Halifax-based East Coast Music Award- and Canadian Folk Music Award-winning indie-rock band, took to social media today to announced that their quintet has become a quartet with the departure of Paul Aarntzen. Continue reading Hillsburn Becomes a Quartet With Departure of Songwriter Paul Aarntzen
Music Video: Joel Plaskett Releases Evidence of Foreign Involvement on His Latest Album With ‘Collusion’
Every few years such fresh political controversy overturns a page in the dictionary and uncovers a curious bit of terminology to be added into the common vernacular. We’ve seen scandals (and near-scandals) bear fruit with such words as gerrymander, prorogue, impeach and, most recently, collusion. Of course, it isn’t always applied to presidential elections, and as Joel Plaskett points out in his latest single, most of us have been colluding on the regular whether we know it or not. Continue reading Music Video: Joel Plaskett Releases Evidence of Foreign Involvement on His Latest Album With ‘Collusion’
The Best Music of 2020 (So Far)
Despite most of the world coming to a halt in 2020, the music industry hasn’t exactly shut down. It has simply, as the kids say, pivoted. Rather than touring, musicians have used their time release an abundance on new material and left it in our inbox.
Through thorough research and the often uncomfortable use of democracy, The East’s staff have meticulously sorted through each song sent our way until we arrived at our list of The Best Music of 2020 (So Far). Please enjoy responsibly.