If Hauler looks a little familiar to you, that shouldn’t be at all surprising. Two-thirds of the band is comprised of Atlantic Canada’s reggae-rock champions of the festival circuit, Slowcoaster. Today the trio released their first single, a nod to their Celtic roots with a modern arrangement of the 1861 hit “Wind That Shakes the Barley.” Continue reading Music Video: Hauler is a Contemporary Roots Version of Slowcoaster, Debuts With ‘Wind That Shakes the Barley’
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Single: Lawrence Maxwell Points Out We Should Have Listened to the ‘Whiskey Songs’ of Old Country
You can’t solve everything with drinking. Particularly if the problem you need to solve is the drinking. There’s enough country music out there to attest to that, and “Whiskey Songs,” the latest single from Prince Edward Island’s Lawrence Maxwell, offers the final word on that. Continue reading Single: Lawrence Maxwell Points Out We Should Have Listened to the ‘Whiskey Songs’ of Old Country
Single: Jon McKiel Works With a Mystery Collaborator on ‘Object Permanence’
What would you do if you’d purchased a reel-to-reel tape recorder with the intention of recording your album, only to discover that one of the tapes included with said purchase already contained a treasure trove of material? Do you discard it? Or do you turn them into unwitting collaborators, to form the backbone of your new masterpiece.
Jon McKiel, chose the latter, and that’s how his upcoming album, Bobby Joe Hope, was created. “Object Permanence,” the album’s first single, debuted today, and it’s so impressive we’re dying to know who the mysterious collaborator was.
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Music Video: Aquakultre’s ‘Pay It Forward’ Calls for Kindness
Aquakultre, salt of the earth, pillar of his community, and 2020 East Coast Music Award nominee, has released a brand new video for “Pay It Forward,” showing just what can be accomplished when literally giving someone the shirt off his back. Continue reading Music Video: Aquakultre’s ‘Pay It Forward’ Calls for Kindness
Single: JOYFULTALK’s ‘Part II Pixelated Skin’ Is Part Polaris Prize, Part ’90s Strategy Game
If you can imagine what the audio equivalent of a Rube Goldberg machine might sound like, you might be able to find your way to same ballpark as Nova Scotian composer, musician and visual artist Jay Crocker, also known as JOYFULTALK. His latest single, “Part II – Pixelated Skin” comes from his upcoming album, A Separation of Being, from which arises the questions: “what’s ‘Part I’ getting at?” and “how deep is this rabbit hole going?.” Continue reading Single: JOYFULTALK’s ‘Part II Pixelated Skin’ Is Part Polaris Prize, Part ’90s Strategy Game