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After Five Years, Brent Randall Returns With His Magnificent Pineconesnew
Randall's ideas and motifs, with their kinship to British psychedelic pop and the classic mid-'60s American version, remains intact, as does his band, which Randall believes will deliver these big songs in a way to make pop royalty proud.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sean Flinn |
01-23-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Get Out of Our Van! Where Bands Play, Thieves Follownew
Recent notable ripoffs of touring bands' gear show that musicians make ideal targets for a quick theft.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sean Flinn |
08-18-2008 |
Music
Olivier Jarda's Smart Talknew
Musician and Rhodes Scholar Jarda returns home to the maritimes from Oxford, home of Radiohead, and a, uh, big university.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sean Flinn |
08-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Diagrams, Olivier Jarda
Ghost Bees Performs Strange, Spirited & Often Spooky Folknew
The band, led by twins Romy and Sari Lightman, is inspired by family ancestry. "Even as kids we always had this fascination with death and the supernatural," says Sari.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sean Flinn |
04-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ghost Bees
'Cloudbreaker': Destiny's Childnew
Filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones relives youthful imagination and identity-seeking.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sean Flinn |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Adam Garnet Jones, Cloudbreaker
Fair Warningnew
How Halifax cops managed to turn cruising into a public safety issue without pissing off the gay community.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sean Flinn |
07-20-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Big Band!new
The musical ensembles The Hylozoists (minimum seven members) and Slavic Soul Party! (minimum nine members) explain how so many people can create such distinctive, singular sounds.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Sean Flinn |
07-13-2007 |
Music
