Art is tough. Just try it. You probably won’t even know what makes for good art until you’ve overdosed on it at least a few times. Get up close and drink it in. Have a go at it first hand. Get it wrong. Ask questions. Subjective as it may seem, there are experts available who can tell you not only what is good, but also why. Fortunately for you, we’ve rounded up a few to tell us just what made the top of their lists for the best art produced in Atlantic Canada in 2018.
Apryll Aileen is putting her own spin on a Frank Loesser holiday classic, and it’s not “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” Instead, she’s thrown her hat into the ring against the likes of Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald and, more recently, Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and put together her own version of “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” Continue reading Music Video: Apryll Aileen Puts a Twist on the Classic ‘What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?’→
Whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger, right? Or else it cripples the economy, hobbles journalistic credibility, and puts children in cages. 2017 was just the warm-up and 2018 felt like the trial-run that gave us serious doubts about our ability to cope as a species. Next year the best situation we can hope for is probably a Planet of the Apes showdown where Nicolas Cage is our only hope.
Come to think of it, let’s enjoy what we have now while we still have it. Here are our most popular stories from 2018.
More than two years following their eight-track album Summer in Algiers, Fredericton Band Tortue have brought listeners a short-but-sweet Boxing Day treat in the form of a two-track EP titled Slither. Coming in heavier and groovier than ever, Tortue are releasing their latest work to let us know what they have been up to lately. Continue reading New Music: Tortue Return with the Heavier and Louder ‘Slither’ EP→
Halifax’s jazz trio The Blue Lane apparently have a few surprises up their sleeves, and we mean more than just releasing a fresh new single on Christmas Eve. The band have released “Penny Jenson” into the wild, and rather than the bluesy number we probably would have expected (or anything relatively festive, given the context), the song is a wild mash-up of genres and a whole lot of fun. Continue reading Single: The Blue Lane Blend Hendrix and Buzzcocks for ‘Penny Jenson’→
