For nineteen years now, practically a lifetime in terms of music festivals, Evolve has been the benchmark for east coast music festivals. Long perceived as having one of the best music lineups in Eastern Canada, Evolve is the big one that gets everybody all starry-eyed. This three-day long party always leaves festival-goers transformed, or at least much happier than when they arrived. Continue reading 2018: The Year Evolve Got Its Groove Back
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New Music: The Galpines Offer Bad Behaviour and Good Tunes on ‘Sorry Mom’
If great art is produced through authenticity and relatability, then The Galpines are the great troubadours of our time. Their music rings out with a peel of honesty as a true zeitgeist of our generation. Unsurprisingly, I could hardly listen to Sorry Mom, their appropriately titled full-length album, while my own mother was within earshot. Continue reading New Music: The Galpines Offer Bad Behaviour and Good Tunes on ‘Sorry Mom’
Festival (506) Release 2018 Festival Lineup
Festival (506) has announced the concert lineup for its 12th edition. As a celebration of homegrown talent, this year’s festival in Caraquet will include performances by 35 New Brunswick bands and artists and will include Music New Brunswick’s MNB Awards. Continue reading Festival (506) Release 2018 Festival Lineup
New Music: Electronica and Difficult Topics – Good Badger’s Debut Album ‘Sapiophobic’
Electronica artist Good Badger (aka Alex Good) is released his debut album Sapiophobic. If the name of the album is anything to go by, Good must have been terrified when recording this, because the Fredericton artist shows heaps of genius in his inaugural release. Continue reading New Music: Electronica and Difficult Topics – Good Badger’s Debut Album ‘Sapiophobic’
Chris Donovan – Saint John Photographer Becomes Youngest to Win Canada’s Top Photojournalism Awards
For those who grew up in Saint John, the city’s industrial quality offers a certain Victorian-workhouse charm. With parts of the city suffering with more than its fair share of rundown buildings, smokestacks and, of course, the fog, residents both curse at and fall in love with the city’s unique character. Capturing this side of the city in all of its rawness and beauty is photojournalist Chris Donovan. The Saint John photographer recently became the youngest ever to win Canada’s top photojournalism awards: Photojournalist of the Year and Picture of the Year for 2017 from the News Photographers Association of Canada. Continue reading Chris Donovan – Saint John Photographer Becomes Youngest to Win Canada’s Top Photojournalism Awards