Album Review // Morning Report – Arkells

If you’re suffering from Arkells exhaustion, it’s going to be a lot worse before it gets better. The band has just unleashed its fourth full-length album Morning Report on the world. A trio of singles, “Private School”, “A Little Rain (A Song for Pete)” and the most recent “Drake’s Dad”, preceded the record release. All… Read More

The Halifax Jazz Fest: A Photographer’s View

What's great about writing for a site like HAFILAX is the people that you get to meet. Since we've started using this outlet as a space where we can help promote the music scene on the East Coast, there have been industry folk of all different sorts who we've had the pleasure of meeting and dealing… Read More

Friday Night Soundtrack // Where has July gone?

Mid-Summer always seems to bring with it a lengthy musical drought, as we are all busy focusing on that elusive "Song of Summer '16", but we seem to miss a bunch of solid tunes in the process. My listening has primarily been radio out of Ontario and BC, with some deep diving into Spotify's seemingly endless pool of… Read More

Zoe Leger Releases The Girl From Yesterday

Debut album from Zoe Leger is available today: HALIFAX -- The Girl From Yesterday, the debut album from Halifax jazz singer & pianist Zoe Leger, dropped Friday, July 8. The Girl From Yesterday features nine original compositions that tell the story of a young woman’s personal journey; chronicling the joys and triumphs, loves and losses… Read More

Album Review // All Lit Up – Repartee

Writing and blogging about music is something I have done for the better part of two decades; there has been a vast array of music that is inherently disposable and I’ll rarely (if ever) return to. That is not the case with Newfoundland’s Repartee, a band I… Read More

Chic ft. Nile Rodgers At The Halifax Jazz Festival

30 years into the Halifax Jazz Festival's life, and thankfully we are nowhere close to seeing an end in sight. When the lineup was fully announced, all of the buzz seemed to have centred around the more recent artists who were mentioned: Lauryn Hill, Metric and City & Colour. However it's Chic, ft. Nile Rodgers, who… Read More

Maritime Metal & Hard Rock Festival 4 Preview

"ALL East.....ALL Beast!" "The Ultimate celebration of East Coast Heavy!" After an awesome weekend of metal & hard rock that was showcased last summer, the Maritime Metal & Hard Rock Festival are doing it all over again at the Hants County Exhibition Grounds for its fourth round, the weekend of the 22nd & 23rd of… Read More