From the moment we hit play on Robbie Tucker’s Peppermints, his self-proclaimed “first and only Christmas album,” Tucker runs wild with descriptive lyrics and deft storytelling, amounting to one of the strangest Christmas records you’ll ever hear. Peppermints sounds like a cast recording for a non-existent Christmas production just waiting to be created. Continue reading Robbie Tucker Crafts One of the Strangest Christmas Records You’ll Ever Hear With ‘Peppermints’
Rube & Rake and The Heavy Horses Frontrunners for 2020 MusicNL Award Nominees
MusicNL has announced the nominees for their 2020 music awards, with two bands tied for first place. St. John’s-based bluegrass duo Rube & Rake and Justin Mahoney’s murder ballad vessel, The Heavy Horses, both came away with six nominations apiece. Continue reading Rube & Rake and The Heavy Horses Frontrunners for 2020 MusicNL Award Nominees
Go, Homeboy! Welcomes Us to His World on ‘Tale of the Mixtape’
Fredericton’s Go, Homeboy!, AKA Matt Walls, shuffles on up to the mic to pioneer “sloth rap” on his debut album Tale of the Mixtape, bringing his laid back, unique, and supremely referential interpretation of hip hop to the masses. As he proclaims on “Don’t Trip,” “This is hip hop for hippies, hip hop for nerds, this is hip hop for anyone that likes flipping words.”
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TV Wife Soundtracks Everybody’s Self-Isolation on ‘Indoor Kids’
TV Wife describes the recording of their debut EP as being “like one of those friendships that you tried really hard to foster until finally, some months later, you look back and think, ‘What the hell did I even see in that person?'” After hearing the wacky weirdness of Indoor Kids, one gets a sense of what they mean by this. Continue reading TV Wife Soundtracks Everybody’s Self-Isolation on ‘Indoor Kids’
Inn Echo Gives Us Hope for Spring to Return on ‘Winter’s End’
While the members of Charlottetown-based Inn Echo come together from all over the world – concertina player Gormlaith Maynes from Ireland, fiddler Karson McKeown from Ottawa, guitarist Tom Gammons from Montana, cellist/ fiddler Tuli Porcher from Victoria – their traditional folk sound on Winter’s End feels right at home on the east coast. Continue reading Inn Echo Gives Us Hope for Spring to Return on ‘Winter’s End’