Paragon Cause Reminisce on the Early 2000s Halifax Music Scene in 8-Bit with "Two to Play"
Ottawa-based duo Paragon Cause — Michelle Opthof and Jay Bonaparte — just released their third studio album Autopilot, but they're far from...
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Ottawa-based duo Paragon Cause — Michelle Opthof and Jay Bonaparte — just released their third studio album Autopilot, but they're far from...
The story behind Down at the Khyber, and why the Joel Plaskett Emergency decided to re-record the classic album.
Nestled inside an ivy-covered Victorian house, the Halifax Folklore Centre's Tom and Marla Dorward have been quietly buying, selling, rehabilitating and building stringed instruments for 50 years, becoming a Halifax institution along the way.
The Crash Palace is a book by Andrew Wedderburn.(Coach House Books, Malcolm Overend) The Crash Palace is about a woman named Audrey, who used to work in the oil fields and attend parties at a remote lodge in the wilderness known as the Crash Palace. Audrey has long left that life behind her, and now has a daughter. But one night, she is compelled to return to the now-abandoned Crash Palace — where she must also reckon with her past. When you can read it: Jan. 12, 2021 Andrew Wedderburn is a writer from Alberta. He is also the author of The Milk Chicken Bomb, which was a finalist for the A...
King A three-year sonic drought ended this October for fans of North Preston R&B luminary Keonté Beals as he dropped his long-awaited LP, King. Over nine tracks that evoke Elijah Blake, Ledisi and peak 2000s Usher, Beals delivered songs fit for everything from baby-making to breaking up to party starting to reckoning with personal identity. The self-produced effort sees Beals playing with shades of reggae (the rip-roaring opener “Let Go”) and returning to familiar slow-jam territory (the silk-sheet “Know Better”), all while finding his true voice and ex...