Halifax is getting its own 40th celebration of the classic rockumentary ‘The Last Waltz’. Being held at the Marquee Ballroom, the show will be subbing in some of Nova Scotia’s musical talents for Canada classic rock legends The Band.
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NSLC Respond To Big Spruce Brewing’s Open Letter
Recently, Jeremy White of Cape Breton-based Big Spruce Brewing published an open letter airing his beefs with the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation. In the letter, White cites ten very specific complaints regarding how the current bureaucracy is handling the growing craft beer industry, ranging from limiting the size of their glassware to the use of unconstitutional mark-ups (or what most people would refer to as taxes). Continue reading NSLC Respond To Big Spruce Brewing’s Open Letter
Music Nova Scotia Hands Out Forty-Eight Awards
Musicians and industry professionals (and fans of both) flocked to Truro last week for the annual Nova Scotia Music Week. The four day long event featured musical showcases, convention workshops, and of course the forty-eight Music Nova Scotia Awards being handed out. Continue reading Music Nova Scotia Hands Out Forty-Eight Awards
New Music: Monomyth’s ‘Happy Pop Family’
Monomyth’s second album ‘Happy Pop Family’ is being released on Vancouver’s Mint Records today , and it’s a long slow swirl into bittersweet introspective melancholia, but you know, the happy kind you can dance to.
SNAP! CRACKLE! HALIFAX POP EX 2016!
It would seem that the attendees of this year’s Halifax Pop Explosion had silently taken a mail carriers vow before the festivities started on Wednesday. Through sun and rain (and wind and cold and near tropical humidity levels in the Forum and was that snow for a second there?) crowds appeared at the various stages to laugh, dance, mosh and shuffle their feet back and forth awkwardly, to the talent provided. Squadrons of coordinators, volunteers and staff flitted about the venues holding the sprawling event together, and doing it well I’ll add. Continue reading SNAP! CRACKLE! HALIFAX POP EX 2016!