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 your heart.
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia You can call Carmen Townsend’s music many things, but reserved isn’t one of them. As polite as she may be in person, within Townsend lives a voice much louder than she lets on in conversation. It’s one that manifests itself onstage through her raucous live sets, full of an intensity…
The Root Sellers rock the crowd with a stunning blend of hip-hop lyrics, DJing, gymnastics, live instruments, and much more. They have a gift for moving the dance floor and the minds of their audiences with innovative performances composed of bass heavy ghetto funk, dubstep, glitch-hop and breakbeats. The Root Sellers sound is created by…
Halifax, Nova Scotia The four cosmic entities that comprise TWRP have inhabited the bodies of four simple humans, and have been playing danceable space-rock since crash landing on Earth three years ago. In their time on this planet TWRP (also known in longhand as Tupper Ware Remix Party) has established a name for itself as…
Halifax, NS 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…
Halifax, NS Wilco and Tom Petty meet up by chance at Johnny Cash’s grave, each bearing a bottle of whiskey – drinks are poured, and The Will Be Gones are born. The Will Be Gones is a ragtag assembly of established east coast musicians, featuring award winning songwriter and singer Craig Mercer of the…
Halifax, NS After bursting onto the scene in the fall of 2011 the members of Dub Kartel have managed to prove themselves worthy of the stage. They’ve quickly earned themselves a loyal fan base and a spot on the lineups of this summer’s most sought after Maritime music festivals. The seven-piece group is made…