Articles by Ryan McNutt

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  Dance Movie

  Champions Bar & Grill, Truro NS, November 8

  PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2014

  I spent much of last night's performance by Halifax's Dance Movie counting, and unless my calculations are off, every song the band perform...

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  Cam Smith

  Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 7

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2014

  In advance his latest full-length album, Cannon, released in September, Dartmouth, NS rapper Cam Smith released two ridiculously over-the-t...

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  Monomyth

  Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 7

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2014

  Halifax jangle junkies Monomyth check off so many indie rock fetish boxes that they almost seem like a result of a focus group: earnestly i...

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  Ria Mae

  Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 6

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2014

  "You look way too good to leave this all to luck." That's the best line in Ria Mae's new single, "Clothes Off," a sexy, swaggering track...

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  Alert the Medic

  Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 6

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2014

  On a night that featured performances based around EDM mashups, singer-songwriter material with hip hop beats and a prog smorgasbord, Alert...

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  The Brood

  Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 6

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2014

  Halifax's the Brood share a name with a late-1990s pro-wrestling squad who were, ostensibly, vampires. (This was in between Anne Rice makin...

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  Mozart's Sister

  Olympic Community Hall, Halifax NS, October 24

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2014

  Two songs into Mozart's Sister's first of two HPX sets this weekend, I was worried I was watching an insular pop experience — and not...

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  Kevin Drew

  Marquee Club, Halifax NS, October 24

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2014

  At a Kevin Drew show, some chaos and disorder is to be expected; after all, it's not like his band is called "United" Social Scene. Yet eve...