ECMA nominated party-rockers Something Good want to let the good times roll. Winners of Music Nova Scotia’s 2011 Hip-hop Recording of the Year, this 7 piece live hip-hop band believes in doing what their name-sake suggests both on and off the stage. When they’re not packing dance floors they stay busy with an on-going Good Deeds project that sees them giving back to their community. You good?
Los Angeles, California Contrary to the rumored explanations that abound like urban myths about one Los Angeles collective’s peculiar name, there is no ‘Edward Sharpe.’ Frontman Alex Ebert insists that the moniker is not an alter ego, that he’s not playing a character. So it is Alex Ebert leading the Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic…
Cape Breton, NS Born in the backwoods of Cape Breton, a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia, DjDVD (aka Dave Mackenzie) brings the same passion and energy to his music that he does to life. He specializes in extremes – dark and funky, black and white, good and evil. Mostly evil. This…
St. John’s, NL Hey Rosetta! hails from the rocky and cold northeastern province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. In 2005, Tim Baker arrived home from a road trip with a suitcase full of poems and melodies. Hey Rosetta! formed soon after with the addition of a string section (cellist Romesh Thavanathan and violinist Kinley Dowling)…
Fredericton, NB The Trick is a one-man synth-rock band from Fredericton, New Brunswick. Bittersweet pop songs about nostalgia and the stuff of daydreams come face to face to with a single overdriven guitar and an arsenal of live-sequenced synths and samplers. It’s music that reaches for the feet even when it means to grab…
San Francisco, CA Think back to when you were 16. No one could tell you what to do. You were a force to be reckoned with – filled with the undeniable feeling that you could take on anything and win. Having formed in 1994, Deerhoof has now reached that fateful age and by rites…
Halifax / Moncton Sonny has been a staple in the EDM scene on the East Coast for over 15 years and is no stranger to the Evolve stage. From his early days in Halifax playing raves and after hours clubs, he now finds himself located in Moncton NB, the “Hub of the Maritimes”. With residencies in Nova Scotia,…