nova scotia music week
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Blue Rodeo / Adam Baldwin / Carleton Stone Rath Eastlink Community Centre, Truro NS, November 9 Published Nov 10, 2014No, you're not misreading things: Nova Scotia Music Week's headline act this year was Toronto's Blue Rodeo. Bringing in an outside act...
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Dance Movie Champions Bar & Grill, Truro NS, November 8 Published Nov 09, 2014I spent much of last night's performance by Halifax's Dance Movie counting, and unless my calculations are off, every song the band performe...
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Like A Motorcycle Royal Canadian Legion, Truro NS, November 8 Published Nov 09, 2014Kicking off a lineup that included East coast favourites the Stanfields and Matt Mays, in a room with a capacity that was never going to com...
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Quiet Parade Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 8 Published Nov 09, 2014Halifax's Quiet Parade got caught right in the middle of a massive audience shift at the Holiday Inn: the older Saturday night Truro crowd t...
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SoHo Ghetto Champions Bar & Grill, Truro NS, November 8 Published Nov 09, 2014It took a few songs for the volume at Champions to seemingly adjust to SoHo Ghetto — or perhaps that was just my ears. The loudness re...
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Monomyth Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 7 Published Nov 08, 2014Halifax jangle junkies Monomyth check off so many indie rock fetish boxes that they almost seem like a result of a focus group: earnestly ir...
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Cam Smith Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 7 Published Nov 08, 2014In advance his latest full-length album, Cannon, released in September, Dartmouth, NS rapper Cam Smith released two ridiculously over-the-to...
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The Brood Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 6 Published Nov 07, 2014Halifax's the Brood share a name with a late-1990s pro-wrestling squad who were, ostensibly, vampires. (This was in between Anne Rice making...
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Alert the Medic Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 6 Published Nov 07, 2014On 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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Ria Mae Holiday Inn, Truro NS, November 6 Published Nov 07, 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...