Articles by Laura Kenins
Arcade Fire / Owen Pallett
Alderney Landing, Dartmouth NS July 28
PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2011
Arcade Fire last played Halifax in October 2004, just before Funeral shot the band to fame across the country and then the world. Years and...
Merzbow
Empress Theatre, Moncton NB May 25
PUBLISHED May 26, 2011
Merzbow's namesake, German artist Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau installation, may at first appear to have little in common with the music. Watc...
Long Live the Queen featuring Play Guitar, Bahamas, Envision, SISTER
Halifax, NS May 19 - May 22
PUBLISHED May 23, 2011
Now in its second year, Long Live the Queen wears its crown as Halifax's shortest-distance music festival, with a stretch of a mere one blo...
Ghostkeeper
The Paragon, Halifax NS October 23
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2010
Ghostkeeper's live show is more upbeat than their recordings, but still haunting. Though the Calgary outfit's music holds influences of pop...
Feuermusik
Coconut Grove, Halifax NS October 23
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2010
A two-piece experimental jazz act, Toronto's Feuermusik play with saxophone and bass clarinet, and a drum kit made up of buckets and cans....
Handsome Furs
St. Matthews United Church, Halifax NS October 23
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2010
Following a Pop Explosion tradition of booking louder acts in a church and not just quiet folk artists, the Handsome Furs filled St. Matt's...
The Pack A.D.
The Seahorse, Halifax NS October 22
PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2010
Back in Halifax for the zillionth time in the last couple years, perma-touring Vancouver band the Pack A.D. proved once again that they nev...
The Gertrudes
The Foggy Goggle, Halifax NS October 22
PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2010
Holding a panoply of instruments on a tiny stage, country band the Gertrudes didn't seem to mind the lack of space, plucking out happy rhyt...
