When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Or, in the case of Andre Pettipas and the Giants, remake your past releases. Their new album, Covid Cuts, has the band reimaging their past hits while making the best use of their time in quarantine. Continue reading New Music: Andre Pettipas and the Giants Revisit their Hits on ‘Covid Cuts’
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Single: Danny MacNeil Revisits a Lurching Anthem of Comradery on ‘Ten Hour Day’
Cape Breton confessional folk artist Danny MacNeil revisits “Ten Hour Day,” a song about burning the candle at both ends while making sure we find time for important people in our lives. With a version previously released in 2018 (which featured The Stanfields’s Dillan Tate on guitar), MacNeil leapfrogs from lyric to lyric as he describes the now-forgotten challenges of an over-full social calendar. Continue reading Single: Danny MacNeil Revisits a Lurching Anthem of Comradery on ‘Ten Hour Day’
Music Video: Rob Murphy Revisits the Recent History of Cape Breton on ‘Ghosts’
Ahead of his upcoming album, Rob Murphy has released his “Ghosts,” a new single and video that pays homage to his hometown of New Waterford, Cape Breton, its once-busy community, the beauty of the nearby landscapes and its rugged coastlines. But it’s also a reminder that this way of life is disappearing; small towns are getting smaller, the industries that they once thrived on are changing, and Cape Breton, in particular, has faced more than its share of challenges. Continue reading Music Video: Rob Murphy Revisits the Recent History of Cape Breton on ‘Ghosts’
New Music: Chase Ross is a One Man Show on ‘Better Days’
Better Days, the newest solo offering from Chase Ross of The Basin Brothers, had Ross flexing his well-honed songwriting muscles during its quarantine inception. Written and recorded completely by Ross himself, the album showcases his chops as both a songwriter and performer. Continue reading New Music: Chase Ross is a One Man Show on ‘Better Days’
New Music: Nowhere Club’s Nebulous, Collaborative Compilation/Amusement Park ‘Broadcasts From Nowhere’ Defies Definition
Sometimes you just need to go out and create something. It’s a natural enough urge that is probably universal to the entirety of the human race and manifests in countless ways. If that sounds vague, it’s because it is. It’s the inciting instinct that has manifested everything from dad jokes to the whole of civilization and, given the right circumstances, it can snowball into something sometimes unexpected. That seems to be the case of Nowhere Club, the Halifax-based collective who have released “Broadcasts from Nowhere,” the tip-of-the-iceberg compilation album representing something vast and nebulous that defies description. Continue reading New Music: Nowhere Club’s Nebulous, Collaborative Compilation/Amusement Park ‘Broadcasts From Nowhere’ Defies Definition