Monomyth’s second album ‘Happy Pop Family’ is being released on Vancouver’s Mint Records today , and it’s a long slow swirl into bittersweet introspective melancholia, but you know, the happy kind you can dance to.
Shivering Songs Announce 2017 Line-Up
Shivering Songs has been a mainstay of Fredericton winters for the last seven years now. It’s an ember in an otherwise useless month, meant to melt away the midwinter frost that keeps us paralyzed with seasonal affective disorder, and combats January blues with a celebration of song writing and storytelling. The festival is still more than two months away, but today the Fredericton-based Festival have announced their initial 2017 line-up. Continue reading Shivering Songs Announce 2017 Line-Up
Murder Murder: The East Coast Band From Ontario
Some stories grow in the telling, not because there are any fish involved, but simply because the events begin to sprawl out over time. What starts as a chance meeting and a straightforward introduction can unravel over the course of a year, especially when the facts were never all that certain in the first place. Such is the case of Murder Murder, the east coast band from Ontario. Continue reading Murder Murder: The East Coast Band From Ontario
SNAP! CRACKLE! HALIFAX POP EX 2016!
It would seem that the attendees of this year’s Halifax Pop Explosion had silently taken a mail carriers vow before the festivities started on Wednesday. Through sun and rain (and wind and cold and near tropical humidity levels in the Forum and was that snow for a second there?) crowds appeared at the various stages to laugh, dance, mosh and shuffle their feet back and forth awkwardly, to the talent provided. Squadrons of coordinators, volunteers and staff flitted about the venues holding the sprawling event together, and doing it well I’ll add. Continue reading SNAP! CRACKLE! HALIFAX POP EX 2016!
The Making Of The Movie About James Mullinger’s Life
James Mullinger tells The East in his own words what it’s like to oversee a big screen film production all about you… Continue reading The Making Of The Movie About James Mullinger’s Life