Corey Isenor doesn’t care what you think. The Halifax-based musician doesn’t care about professional musicianship or the music industry. He doesn’t care if you read this article and he doesn’t care if you have heard his record Absinthe & Smoke before. We at The East care because we think Corey Isenor is one of the best songwriters in Atlantic Canada. Continue reading Corey Isenor Doesn’t Care What You Think
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Music Video: Rich Aucoin Announces New ‘United States’ LP, Shares Anti-Gun Protest Anthem ‘Reset’
If the best way to get to see a country is from the back of a motorcycle, Rich Aucoin should be intimately familiar with a good swath of American. Aucoin has famously toured by bicycle, giving him ample opportunity to take in the country at the ground level and enough experience to compose a song for each of the 12 states he pedalled through for his next album.
Naturally, “Reset,” his latest release, is an anti-gun anthem. Continue reading Music Video: Rich Aucoin Announces New ‘United States’ LP, Shares Anti-Gun Protest Anthem ‘Reset’
New Music: Joel Plaskett Releases Four-Album Mega Project with ’44’
If it’s taken you this long to fully digest Joel Plaskett’s latest offering, you’d be excused. 44 is Plaskett’s most ambitious project to date, a collection of four full albums released just before his 45th birthday – Carried Away, Just Passing Through, If There’s Another Road, and The Window Inn. The project serves as a spiritual successor to Three, a similar release by Plaskett in 2009 which consisted of three albums. Continue reading New Music: Joel Plaskett Releases Four-Album Mega Project with ’44’
Single: Like A Motorcycle Question the Matrix on ‘Wide Awake’
Quelle surprise! The end of the world falls into our laps and a punk-rock band has just the anti-capitalist anthem for the occasion. Halifax’s Like A Motorcycle were keeping their latest single “Wide Awake” in their back pocket, waiting for the right moment to unleash their careers in the new economy as Zoom background models.
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New Music: See Through 4 Unveil ‘False Ghosts, Minor Fears’
False Ghosts, Minor Fears is the new release by See Through 4, the newest project from Windsor, Nova Scotia jazz bassist Pete Johnston. Johnston — better known for his work with the Juno awarded Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra — acts as composer, band director, and bassist for the record. The quartet features Karen Ng on saxophone, Marilyn Lerner on piano, and Nick Fraser on drums. Continue reading New Music: See Through 4 Unveil ‘False Ghosts, Minor Fears’