Jont knows his forte. The lanky Englishman, who has made Halifax, Nova Scotia his home, works fairly strictly in the medium of positive vibrations, often reinforced by unbridled bare-foot dancing. His latest video, “Surrounded by Love”, is a fine example of that and very likely the sort of musical catharsis the world could make use of at the moment. Continue reading Music Video: Jont Dances up a Lot of Positivity on ‘Surrounded by Love’
Music Video: Adam Baxter Cracks Out Ozark-Inspired Single ‘Keep Safe’
This year has come with a lot of unintended consequences for people. The impacts of COVID-19 have been far-reaching and the lasting effects, both health-wise and the reverberations the pandemic will have on our collective societal psyche, have yet to be fully understood. One thing we might have anticipated, however, was the red-eyed, no-limits-but-your-own lifestyle of hardcore Netflix binge-watching that a quarantine might induce.
The new single from Adam Baxter, “Keep Safe”, is not the public service warning for six-feet-of-safety and wash-your-hands-while-you’re-at-it that you’d expect, but the result of taking in the first full season of Ozark. Continue reading Music Video: Adam Baxter Cracks Out Ozark-Inspired Single ‘Keep Safe’
ECMA Unveils First Round of 2020 Honorary Award Recipients
Ahead of the awards ceremonies being held on July 10th and 11th, the East Coast Music Association has announced the first wave of recipients of the 2020 Honorary East Coast Music Awards. Continue reading ECMA Unveils First Round of 2020 Honorary Award Recipients
Music Video: Kestrels Pile on the Vintage Noise on ‘Vanishing Point’
Halifax “fuzz aficionados” Kestrels have released “Vanishing Point,” the second single from their upcoming album and a decades-removed descendant of Dinosaur Jr. Looking like something that came off of some late-night Much Music programming circa 1994, the track’s accompanying video has no shortage of colourful, blurred images and, best of all, cats. Continue reading Music Video: Kestrels Pile on the Vintage Noise on ‘Vanishing Point’
New Music: Meorkat Proves You Can Do Anything With the Right Sounds on ‘Instrumentals’
With the lyric-heavy tunes we tend to see and hear on the radio or Hot 100 lists, it can be easy to forget how instrumentals have the ability to weave emotional evocations that can sometimes, ironically enough, transcend language. This makes Meorkat’s appropriately titled album, Instrumentals, all the more appealing, jam-packed with a winding array of heart-tuggers, eerie atmospheres, and motivational backdrops. Continue reading New Music: Meorkat Proves You Can Do Anything With the Right Sounds on ‘Instrumentals’