Not all plans turn out exactly as you might have planned, but they can still turn out for the best. It took up-ending her entire life for Cape Breton’s Elyse Aeryn to arrive at “Bittersweet High.” Her new alt-rock single is a complete shake-up of everything from her career, to her love life, to her music and a glimpse of things to come. Continue reading Elyse Aeryn Undergoes a Reinvention for ‘Bittersweet High’
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Cut, Split & Delivered Craft a Nostalgic Ode to the Kingston Peninsula’s ‘Dusty Roads’
There are some places in New Brunswick that are simply drenched in nostalgia. There are quiet stretches of wooded countryside that stand in as a living memory for many, largely due to the fact that they’ve changed very little in the last century. The Kingston Peninsula, wedged between the Kennebecasis and St. John (Wolastoq) Rivers, is one of those places. The sporadic farmhouses found along its roads are largely the same farmhouses that stood there a hundred years ago, and the same dusty lanes still wind along the fields, down towards the river’s edge.
These are the same “Dusty Roads” that Nova Scotian 6-piece, Americana-influenced band Cut, Split & Delivered are singing about on their new single, but they might have been found almost anywhere. Continue reading Cut, Split & Delivered Craft a Nostalgic Ode to the Kingston Peninsula’s ‘Dusty Roads’
Lizzie Loveless Mourns the Mixed Blessing of Forgetting With ‘Memory’
Former TEEN-member and Halifax-export Lizzie Lieberson, AKA Lizzie Loveless, is on the edge of releasing an album as an act of re-emergence into the world. In the wake of health complications that quashed TEEN’s tour plans, Lizzie Loveless has had to undergo a re-invention of herself and her career. Those challenges have a way of putting things into perspective—though, as her new Charles Billot-directed video for “Memory” demonstrates, the harsher flipside of perspective is withdrawal. Continue reading Lizzie Loveless Mourns the Mixed Blessing of Forgetting With ‘Memory’
Aaron MacDonald’s New EP ‘It’s Been Too Long’ Is a Statement That We Wholeheartedly Agree With
In almost every sense of the word, Cape Breton’s Aaron MacDonald has survived the storm. Having spent years crisscrossing Canada with a five-piece band, he’s seen it all and lived to tell, or more accurately, sing about it.
Aaron MacDonald has been the life of the party. He’s been the face on the poster, and the leader of the band. He’s traveled and he’s lived a life that many would, and have, died for, and he’s made his share of mistakes along the way, but it’s this big bag of life lessons that gives such credibility to his latest record, It’s Been Too Long. Continue reading Aaron MacDonald’s New EP ‘It’s Been Too Long’ Is a Statement That We Wholeheartedly Agree With
June Body Announce New Album With Emotionally Gutting New Single ‘Flickering’
June Body lands their return with a big impact. Their first new single since 2018, “Flickering” kicks off a slew of releases from the band and they’re leaning into it with a particularly heavy punch. It’s easy to spot a June Body single from a mile off, and “Flickering” holds true to that, but this Trojan horse is carrying some lyrics that are prepared to gut you. Continue reading June Body Announce New Album With Emotionally Gutting New Single ‘Flickering’