AltWeeklies Wire
Anew Airship Have Liftoffnew
With success comes stress, and the ordinarily blissed-out crew at Anew Airship is getting their first taste of both.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Matthieu Aikins |
01-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Anew Airship
Sixtoo Lifenew
Man of many names and projects, Robert Squire, AKA Sixtoo, continues to buck trends and surprise fans.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Ian Gormely |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sixtoo
Portland Hip-hopper Sontiago Gets Personal and Politicalnew
Whether she rhymes over beats, performs painstakingly honest and powerful spoken-word pieces, or speaks out about violence against women at crisis-intervention rallies, she embodies the DIY aesthetic of indie-rock culture with a sense of sensational sass, nerve and intellect.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Shannon Webb-Campbell |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sontiago, Steel Yourself
Plenty of Pa Rum Pum Pum Pumsnew
Sean Passmore has spent his adult life collecting Christmas albums, both the weird and the wonderful.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Carsten Knox |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Afrika Bambaataa's Interplanetary Craftnew
The legendary founder of the Universal Zulu Nation gets cosmic.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Mark Black |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Afrika Bambaataa
i see rowboats Takes Halifax by Stormnew
Earlier this year i see rowboats didn't even have a name. Nine months later, the chamber-pop quintet has sailed up the campus radio charts to become one of the city's favorite indie bands.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Mike Landry |
11-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: i see rowboats
Montgomery Moth's Hard-Rock Sound Stays Freshnew
The band's new release, Go Crazy, goes hard on the rock and light on the image.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Ian Gormely |
11-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Go Crazy, Montgomery Moth
Chromeo Loves the Ladiesnew
This year's hit album Fancy Footwork launched synth, keyboard and talk-box king P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) and ultra-smooth vocalist and guitarist Dave 1 (David Macklovitch) even further into the private jet-fuelled, champagne-soaked world they've created.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Stephanie Johns |
11-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chromeo, Fancy Footwork
Tegan and Sara's Double Lifenew
Commitment and break-up. Love and loss. The duo brings diverging but connected perspectives to The Con.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Shannon Webb-Campbell |
10-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tegan and Sara, The Con
Matthew Good is In Good Companynew
Only the outspoken provocateur could turn an overdose, divorce and bipolar diagnosis into Hospital Music.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Tara Thorne |
10-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hospital Music, Matthew Good
Markit's Worknew
The Fax 4 MC and full-time scientist releases his academically inclined debut LP Mark My Words.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Mark Black |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mark My Words, Markit
Don Brownrigg Releases Debutnew
Newfoundland's Brownrigg creates Wander Songs, a prolific musical anthology of thought and needs time to steep, like any good cup of tea.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Shannon Webb-Campbell |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Don Brownrigg, Wander Songs
Great Lake Swimmers Shrug Off Neo-Folk Labelnew
Call it the Garden State effect: Bands got lumped into the "neo-folk" group, but the Swimmers don't feel like they're part of the movement.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Ian Gormely |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Great Lake Swimmers
Ian MacKaye Still A Major Threatnew
When punk legend Ian MacKaye resurfaced with his new band The Evens, many viewed the guitar-and-drums combo as MacKaye going gently into that good night -- but this Fugazi veteran has other plans.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Ian Gormely |
06-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Evens
The Fantastic Twonew
Indie duo The Superfantastics pops up into consciousness with a savvy sense of the offbeat, a zest for DIY and a great debut LP.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Shannon Webb-Campbell |
04-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Superfantastics
