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New Music: Jessie Brown’s ‘Keeping Appearances’ Delivers a Healthy Dose of Soul

Halifax’s Jessie Brown released her newest full-length studio album September 29 and it’s packed to the brim with soul. In Keeping Appearances, Brown’s three-piece group mix rock, fuzz, funk, contemporary and doom together and envelop it in a thick layer of soulful energy that holds steady throughout. Continue reading New Music: Jessie Brown’s ‘Keeping Appearances’ Delivers a Healthy Dose of Soul

Music Video: Jont & The Infinite Possibility Dig Deep With ‘Big Open Heart’

Jont Openheart, our favourite displaced Englishman of the musical persuasion, along with his band, The Infinite Possibility, have released their newest single today. The namesake ‘Big Open Heart’ is a manifesto—an anthem—paired with an animation that’s a little bit literal and a lot metaphorical. Continue reading Music Video: Jont & The Infinite Possibility Dig Deep With ‘Big Open Heart’

Music Video: The Town Heroes Get Subversively Political With ‘Tonight’

The Town Heroes have surprised us with their new video and the final single from their 2017 album Please, Everyone.’Tonight’ is going to look familiar to anyone who has experienced a night alone in a foreign city; a night full of promise and excitement and, ultimately, disappointment. Continue reading Music Video: The Town Heroes Get Subversively Political With ‘Tonight’

Halifax Pop Explosion Goes Local With Beer Sponsorship

With great events comes great responsibility. Festival organizers and sponsors alike are familiar with the Field Of Dreams business model: if you build it, they will come, and once you have them there you can sell them whatever you want, provided it’s beer. It’s an opportunity for events to secure sponsorship and for sponsors to take advantage of a captive audience. Too often, that means a monopoly being purchased by the company with the deepest pockets, selling their disappointing fizzy rice water at inflated prices to people with no other options. Halifax Pop Explosion Music Festival and Conference (HPX) has found that there’s a better way. Continue reading Halifax Pop Explosion Goes Local With Beer Sponsorship

New Music: Alert The Medic Release ‘Let Them Have Their Fun’

Let Them Have Their Fun is an unexpected rejuvenation of Alert The Medic’s sound that no one saw coming. The first climb of the opening track ‘What Are The Odds’ propels the band to the top of a mountain, of which they refuse to come down from for an elating 42 minutes. The band has an extra jump in their step that will suck you into following their rhythm, with vocalist Ryan MacDonald’s infectious voice making it mandatory to sing along from the first chorus onward. Continue reading New Music: Alert The Medic Release ‘Let Them Have Their Fun’