In the rather unique microcosm of the Atlantic Canadian Bubble, artists and performers are returning to work. Rather than the season-long tours they’d usually be performing, they’ve made the best of these uncertain times by finding new audiences and new successes through the medium of podcasting.
Four such podcasts out of Atlantic Canada have very quickly found their stride: James Mullinger’s Mullinger Meets Canadians, the East Coast Music Association’s Radio ECMA hosted by Chris Batstone, critically acclaimed PEI songwriter Dylan Menzie’s Lost in Dreams, and Indie NL – The Podcast for the Unsigned Artist from Fairgale’s Stephen Green and Justin Fancy of Canadian Idol fame. Continue reading Easty Listening: Four New Podcasts From the Atlantic Bubble→
Taking their annual celebration of homegrown New Brunswick music online this year a digital four-day version of Festival (506), Music•Musique NB (MNB) isn’t about to forget the Prix MNB Awards Show either. The live-streamed awards show will live-streamed, free, on October 22, 2020, kicking off the whole event.
Ambition, when untethered from practicality, produces the kind of decadent artistic expression that I crave and the spaghetti western delivers. Rev Hank’s El Camino De Los Muertos is a gunslinger that chooses a strange and beautiful hill to die on, located in the Italian countryside, masquerading as the wild west. Continue reading New Music: Rev Hank Crafts an Ode to Spaghetti Westerns with ‘El Camino De Los Muertos’→
Anyone following the lead up to the release of Rich Aucoin’s new album, United States, may have noticed a certain pervasive tone in the singles – amplifying whatever lesson that 2020 is already trying to teach us. Aucoin, known and respected as an artist capable of bringing the party, pumps the brakes with “Walls”, reuniting all of us with the best music videos of all times, Rick “The Franchise” Campanelli, and a message that we’re better together than apart. Continue reading Music Video: Rich Aucoin Unites All of Humanity With the Best Music Videos of All Time on ‘Walls’→