Tag Archives: Saint John

Saint John Strong Celebrates Saint John’s Quirks In T-Shirt Form

Saint John is a city. That means a lot of things. Some of the things are good, some are bad, but in the case of Saint John most of them are a little quirky. You could spend a lifetime getting to know all of those quirks. If you’re lucky, you’ve grown up here and already accepted those quirks for what they are and learned to love them. If not, you’re going to need a primer, maybe a close friend to guide you, or some cliff-notes. There’s a comedic goldmine’s worth of material here. Fortunately, thanks to Saint John Strong, we now have some convenient wearable memes to guide us along. Continue reading Saint John Strong Celebrates Saint John’s Quirks In T-Shirt Form

New Music: Murder Murder Rack Up A Body Count On ‘Wicked Lines & Veins’

It can be immensely rewarding to watch as a band grows and develops. Not as human beings—especially in the case of Murder Murder, who are incurable monsters through-and-through—but as artists, as we see in their third album, Wicked Lines & Veins, which showcases how much they’ve honed their craft as musicians.
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Area 506: Festival Finds Its Strength In Local Products

New Brunswick is a curious place and New Brunswick Day weekend is inevitably something of a celebration of that fact, whether it’s intentional or not. We  pack a lot into that one weekend. With most communities having their own events, festivals need to work hard to differentiate themselves. Now in its second year, Area 506 proved it could hold its own, at least against the other music festivals… Continue reading Area 506: Festival Finds Its Strength In Local Products

New Music: Elephant Skeletons Releases Real Cuts/Surreal Blood as TAAPE

Is Elephant Skeletons having some form of identity crisis? Maybe. He has recently released new music under the strange and poorly-presented guise of TAAPE. The album, called Real Cuts/Surreal Blood, was released September 6th. He claims it’s just a “place” to put the songs that haven’t found their spot on his album The Traveller, but why is it that they can’t co-exist under the same Bandcamp account? We think there’s more to it. Continue reading New Music: Elephant Skeletons Releases Real Cuts/Surreal Blood as TAAPE