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Wintersleep Get Vinyl Reissue Via Dine Alone Records

If you’re still wondering what special token of love to bestow upon your dearest this Valentine’s Day, Dine Alone Records has just solved your problems, albeit a little on the retroactive side. Today they’ve announced the reissue of JUNO award winning band Wintersleep’s first three critically-acclaimed LP’s: Wintersleep, Untitled, and Welcome To The Night Sky. Continue reading Wintersleep Get Vinyl Reissue Via Dine Alone Records

Area 506 Festival Celebrates New Brunswick on Long Wharf

Last weekend the inaugural Area 506 Festival was held in Saint John.  Part music festival, part celebration of all things New Brunswick, the event was held at Saint John’s perennial ‘What to do with this next?’ property: Long Wharf, in a fairly unique venue built using a structure much esteemed by the port, and hipsters alike: the humble shipping container. Continue reading Area 506 Festival Celebrates New Brunswick on Long Wharf

Halifax Celebrates Gridlock The First

With over twenty-five bands spread out over three days, the inaugural Gridlock Festival made a positively chill and certifiably dank first impression on festival-goers in the downtown Halifax area. Drawn in by the buzz of headlining acts American Football and Wolf Parade, it was the depth of artistic talents and curated attractions that turned a mere high-school parking lot into a festival punching well above it’s first-year weight class. Continue reading Halifax Celebrates Gridlock The First

Wintersleep Show Us Amerika And The Future Of Trump

It’s been ten months. Ten everlasting months since Donald Trump first announced his campaign for the American Presidency, and worst of all, the bastard might actually win. He’s used fear, and racism, and misogyny to build a platform from which he can march across America’s collective id clear to the finish line. But it wasn’t ten months ago that we reached any sort of tipping point that set off this chain of events, or seventy years ago. It wasn’t two hundred years, or even two hundred thousand. We weren’t playing chicken with any ledge. We got here step by step, on our long journey back into the sea. We’ve been doomed from the beginning, but as some consolation we have the beauty of Wintersleep’s new video for ‘Amerika’ to remind us of our bittersweet impermanence. Continue reading Wintersleep Show Us Amerika And The Future Of Trump

New Music: Wintersleep’s ‘The Great Detachment’

This week Wintersleep’s newest and sixth album, ‘The Great Detachment’ will see the light of day. Their first album since 2012’s ‘Hello Hum’, but more importantly almost nine years since ‘Welcome To The Night Sky’, it’s an opportunity to escape the long shadow of their ‘Weighty Ghost’ (not to mention their former manager) and they stand a good chance with ‘Amerika’. Continue reading New Music: Wintersleep’s ‘The Great Detachment’