For those of you who weren’t in attendance last week, James Mullinger just beat out Jerry Seinfeld for ticket sales in an event that packed Saint John’s Harbour Station. As if that weren’t big enough, on the heels of that milestone, Mullinger has just announced what is being billed as ‘The Biggest Comedy Show Ever’. Continue reading James Mullinger Announces Biggest Comedy Show Ever
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Flourish Festival: Fredericton’s Art Scene In Bloom
The trees have barely started budding, but Fredericton’s art scene is in full bloom. Flourish Festival wrapped up its sophomore year this past week and one of the marked changes from last year is the emphasis on visual art and installations. Continue reading Flourish Festival: Fredericton’s Art Scene In Bloom
Wintersleep Show Us Amerika And The Future Of Trump
It’s been ten months. Ten everlasting months since Donald Trump first announced his campaign for the American Presidency, and worst of all, the bastard might actually win. He’s used fear, and racism, and misogyny to build a platform from which he can march across America’s collective id clear to the finish line. But it wasn’t ten months ago that we reached any sort of tipping point that set off this chain of events, or seventy years ago. It wasn’t two hundred years, or even two hundred thousand. We weren’t playing chicken with any ledge. We got here step by step, on our long journey back into the sea. We’ve been doomed from the beginning, but as some consolation we have the beauty of Wintersleep’s new video for ‘Amerika’ to remind us of our bittersweet impermanence. Continue reading Wintersleep Show Us Amerika And The Future Of Trump
The Town Heroes Strip Down
Mike Ryan and Bruce Gillis are known as The Town Heroes for good reason: they manage to make an awful lot of sound for just the two of them, spreading laughter and shenanigans wherever they go. That being said, when the occasion calls for it, they can bust out an acoustic rendition that’ll have the whole house party swaying and singing along. Thus the release of their acoustic EP, Closer, replete with four folky renditions of favourites from their last two albums. Continue reading The Town Heroes Strip Down
New Music: Elephant Skeletons’ ‘The Traveller Pt. 1’
Admittedly, I’ve long equated electronic music to nothing more than the muffled hip hop beats pulsating out of rusted Sunfires in a high school parking lot. But Elephant Skeletons’ latest EP ‘The Traveller Pt. 1’ has proven to me that this notion was ill informed and limited. My own inexperienced musical palette and blatant disregard for a whole genre of music left me with the taste of embarrassment, but with the forgiving overtones of fresh discovery. Continue reading New Music: Elephant Skeletons’ ‘The Traveller Pt. 1’