In what can only be interpreted as an effort to earn all the merit badges, Leo LaFleur, the Saint John songwriter who put out an album based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in 2015, followed it in short succession with a second EP, topped it all off by penning ‘The Errand’, a fairy-tale graphic novel. Continue reading The Errand: Saint John Writer Gets Publishing Deal For Graphic Novel
Exclusive: High Tide Comedy Festival Announce Their Gaggle Of Comedians
New Brunswick’s long-awaited High Tide Comedy Festival is finally happening this month and at last we know who will be administering the tickles to our collective funny bones. Today, the Quispamsis-based festival has announced their full comedic line-up. Continue reading Exclusive: High Tide Comedy Festival Announce Their Gaggle Of Comedians
New Music: FM Berlin Stick The Landing On ‘At Least You’re Having Fun’
FM Berlin launched into the new album ‘At Least You’re Having Fun’ last month with the release of ‘Yer Honour,’ the first video single. The result was an immediate and spontaneous office dance party. Now we’ve had a chance to hear what the rest of the album sounds like. Continue reading New Music: FM Berlin Stick The Landing On ‘At Least You’re Having Fun’
New Music: Alert The Medic Release ‘Let Them Have Their Fun’
Let Them Have Their Fun is an unexpected rejuvenation of Alert The Medic’s sound that no one saw coming. The first climb of the opening track ‘What Are The Odds’ propels the band to the top of a mountain, of which they refuse to come down from for an elating 42 minutes. The band has an extra jump in their step that will suck you into following their rhythm, with vocalist Ryan MacDonald’s infectious voice making it mandatory to sing along from the first chorus onward. Continue reading New Music: Alert The Medic Release ‘Let Them Have Their Fun’
Monthly Roundup: September 2017
Welcome to the end of September! Festival season is officially behind us and now we’re wading ear-deep through one of the busiest album-release seasons of the year. This isn’t even all of them, just the albums that we had time to get to. There are, in fact, only so many notes the human ear can hear in the course of an evening.
Here’s everything we’ve managed to write about in the meantime. Continue reading Monthly Roundup: September 2017