Category Archives: Recommended Listening

Recommended Listening

One Track: “Victoria” – Tamara Williamson – Indie

Victoria Montenegro
Inspiration doesn't usually call ahead and schedule an appointment, it is a fickle beast and can sneak up at any given point and strike unexpectedly.  All that you can really do, is be open to the opportunity and grasp hold. Such is the case with songwriter and chanteuse Tamara Williamson and her track "Victoria". As told to HAFILAX, Tamara was driving her son…Read More

Trev’s Best of 2014 Picks

After having reviewed a vast array of music for well over a decade, I am always tabulating a Best Of list in my head in preparation for the early-mid December countdown.  After dealing with an impromptu wading pool in my basement from the torrential rains this past week, my list got pushed to the back…Read More

The ‘Best Of’ Season is Upon Us!

In addition to the Christmas/Holiday season, it also marks the season of countdowns and best of lists. It’s a time for those voracious media-consumption types (like the 3 HAFILAXers) to sit and reflect on the shows, albums, movies and/or books that were consumed over the past year. For this trio of HAFILAX Music Geeks, 2014 saw…Read More

Matt Andersen w/ The Town Heroes

Matt Andersen
On a night which found country legend Kenny Rogers playing across town in the Scotiabank Centre and the Paper Lions on stage at the Grawood, the hot ticket of the evening was for the return of Matt Andersen (with the Mellotones).  The Olympic Hall might have been known as the "Dirty O" once upon a…Read More

HPX2014 Day 3: Music Trumps Comedy Pt. 1

Thursday's HPX offerings were the first where hard decisions had to be made, and even the best laid plans were doomed to fail. The overlapping acts on this evening meant making choices, and I opted to be Wu'd rather than Thune'd (a decision that I pored over for a couple of days, as I would…Read More

HPX2014 – Night 2: Into the Wee Hours Pt.1

This was the night where the plan came together.  It was one of those nights where I made sure to carefully formulate a game-plan which would ensure I wasn't missing any of my targeted acts on the first truly packed night of shows. It went almost to plan, aside from the fact that I realized…Read More