When you’re a touring musician, you need to make the best of your time on the road. Go where the audiences are—be they domestic or foreign—and the work will follow. It is essentially the opposite of the Field of Dreams business model: if someone else has built it, you must go, as it has been ordained by the Universe and Kevin Costner, the only exceptions being Celine Dion and Cher who get to stay in Vegas. It’s a life of great inconvenience, requiring great sacrifice and necessitating fitting in what you can, where you can. As Mauno have yet to earn their Vegas residencies, they are currently touring the UK and Europe, which is exactly where we find them in their new video: ‘Helah’. Continue reading Music Video: Mauno’s ‘Helah’ Is Manufactured Nostalgia
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Nova Scotia Music Week: Jenn Grant Takes Seven Nominations, Port Cities And Rose Cousins Follow With Six
Nova Scotia Music Week isn’t until November but, as part of their fair and democratic process, they’ve announced their 2017 nominees, giving members two weeks to decide who they will vote for. Thankfully, but challengingly, the nominees they’ve selected are also all the nominees we would vote for. Good luck making your own picks. Continue reading Nova Scotia Music Week: Jenn Grant Takes Seven Nominations, Port Cities And Rose Cousins Follow With Six
New Music: Elephant Skeletons Releases Real Cuts/Surreal Blood as TAAPE
Is Elephant Skeletons having some form of identity crisis? Maybe. He has recently released new music under the strange and poorly-presented guise of TAAPE. The album, called Real Cuts/Surreal Blood, was released September 6th. He claims it’s just a “place” to put the songs that haven’t found their spot on his album The Traveller, but why is it that they can’t co-exist under the same Bandcamp account? We think there’s more to it. Continue reading New Music: Elephant Skeletons Releases Real Cuts/Surreal Blood as TAAPE
Video: The Backroad Ball 2017
The Backroad Ball 2017 was a rainy, windy, magical weekend of female bonding, motorcycles and mind-melting entertainment. Over 175 female-identifying motorcyclists and moto-curious women gathered in the (usually) quiet town of Penobsquis, NB with engines roaring and hearts soaring from the camaraderie they found there. Continue reading Video: The Backroad Ball 2017
New Music: Partner Releases Long Awaited ‘In Search Of Lost Time’
We’ve been waiting for this. We’ve been waiting much longer than any of us could have ever realized. In Search Of Lost Time, Partner’s first full debut album, isn’t just the most anticipated album of 2017, but perhaps the best album of the ’90s, just two decades removed. It could be a time capsule, deemed too awesome. Without being tiresome, the album is a glorious revisitation of all the poppy, simple, and wonderfully dumb charm that gilded MTV’s golden age. Continue reading New Music: Partner Releases Long Awaited ‘In Search Of Lost Time’