Date of show: February 16, 2012 Written by: Chiara DiAngelo The Indie Machine curated a showcase at Rancho Relaxo last Thursday that brought together 4 great up-and-coming bands, including their January Artist of the Month, James and Blackburn. James and Blackburn headlined the show. No one in the band is actually named James, or Blackburn [...]
Date of show: February 10, 2012 Written by: Chiara DiAngelo On one of the coldest nights of the year thus far, winter finally decided to show its face. If you happened to be at the Silver Dollar, however, you would have had no idea snow was falling outside as Jane’s Party brought a breath of [...]
Date of show: February 9, 2012 Shot of choice: They asked to be surprised and were given Jager. Before the doors even opened, a line was formed to get the last of the limited tickets available at the door. Not surprising, the Arkells played to a packed house at Elements in Kitchener. Starting off with [...]
Date of show: February 7, 2012 Written by: Chiara DiAngelo Will Currie and the Country French From the moment the 3-piece brass section stepped on stage, joining the core six members of the Country French, it was obvious that the Horseshoe was in for a real treat. And that’s exactly what they delivered. Fronted by [...]
Saturday, October 22, 2011 Saturday, the final day of HPX, was a little crazy. I started off the afternoon at the big free showcase that was moved from Grand Parade Square (the location of Occupy Nova Scotia) to Olympic Community Hall. Plants and Animals After catching some of Carmen Townsend, Plants and Animals were on [...]
Friday, October 21, 2011 I started out HPX Day 4 checking out Punk Rock Karaoke in the afternoon, which brought along special guest Spookey Ruben, before I took a break for the evening shows. However, the night just got more jam-packed. DUZHEKNEW The first band of the night was DUZHEKNEW over at St. Matthew’s United [...]
Thursday, October 20, 2011 The Daredevil Christopher Wright I started off my HPX Day 3 at St. Matthew’s United Church once again. The first band of the night was The Daredevil Christopher Wright, made up of brothers Jon Sunde and Jason Sunde, as well as Jesse Edgington. With beautiful harmonies accompanying the sweet, warm folk [...]
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Rich Aucoin We opened up our HPX Day 2 to Rich Aucoin’s epic album release show at St. Matthew’s United Church. I usually hesitate to use the word epic, but in this case it’s more than appropriate. Aucoin brought along 80+ people to make up a choir and band. He started [...]
Date of show: October 8, 2011 Shot of choice: Jager Bella Clava celebrated the release of their debut full-length, Holy Crow. The Toronto-based 4-piece is comprised of Caitlin Dacey (vocals, keys, guitar), Steve Suttie (guitar, vocals), Scott Hannigan (bass) and Zack Mykula (drums). Although the band has grown into a harder rock sound overall, it’s [...]
Date of show: September 29, 2011 Shot of choice: whiskey Reversing Falls is a 3-piece band based out of Montreal. Tyler Crawford fronts the band with Charlie Neufeld on guitar and Jesse Ash on bass. The band plays with a drum machine, but they play such an explosive breed of pop rock that you might [...]
