It was in the spirit of audacity and relevance that the FME concluded Sunday night on Kiwanis Beach, situated right in the heart of the city. A stage on the shores of the lake, a natural amphitheatre, [...]
Plumtree Project to give underrepresented groups a chance to rock out The Plumtree Project is a new education program by Mirus Records and the Halifax Pop Explosion designed to give eight participants access to instruments, [...]
The new record is a skilful assortment of eight distinctive yet similarly styled folk-rock tracks. Most of the songs are built on a strikingly simple acoustic framework of guitar and piano that grounds the music [...]
Discolor Blind - Long Vivid Dream The Long Vivid Dream opens up before the listener as if it were the prelude to an awakening, the moment where the mind is unawares of whether it is [...]
We all know how these band biographies go, right? Friends meet in high school, start jamming, form band in parents’ garage and everyone lives happily ever after. Well, Goodbye Honolulu DID meet in high school [...]
Beer giant shocked by Lund criticism Anger among the province's craft beer devotees over country music singer Corb Lund's toasting Budweiser's Alberta pedigree has surprised a spokesman for the brewing titan. (Sun) In The ‘Prison [...]
Aron D'Alesio - Aron D'Alesio This record is a one-man show, featuring a one-man band who pieced it all together on his lonesome, from recording and playing each instrument to producing and mastering it — [...]
By Darlene Barss When OurBasement was asked to feature a new video from Terra Lightfoot, I jumped at the chance to do it. I had enjoyed what I had heard from her so far and [...]
How Rufus Wainwright Finally Became a Joni Mitchell Fan Wainwright discussed the long-standing ban Sunday at the Los Angeles stop of his Northern Stars concert — a tribute to Canada and its great artists. In [...]
Toronto singer/songwriter Jon Stancer has released a new video for "Dance In The Sun," one of the standout tracks from his debut solo album, For The Birds. The video beautifully captures the song's dreamy, free-spirited [...]