Album Review: Jenina MacGillivray’s Marion
MacGillivray’s debut is a love letter to friends and family, to cities and towns, and to the past and potential lovers who inhabit them.
Album Review: Youngtree & The Blooms’ Musical Chairs (Launching Tonight)
Youngtree and The Blooms will release Musical Chairs tonight at The Ship.
Album Review: Stone Arch by Jake Nicoll
With each album released Nicoll has explored a different facet of music, and the music making process, analytically taking it apart, holding it up to the light, and putting it back together to create something distinctly his.
Album Review: The Superstar Sibling Detective Agency by The Swinging Belles
Sandy reviews the latest from the Juno Award-winning Kid’s trio, The Swinging Belles, and has her children weigh in.
Album Review: George Morgan’s Not Set In Stone
George Morgan is a dynamic and diverse composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from St. John’s, who if you’re unfamiliar with, is something akin to this city’s own David Byrne.
Album Review: The Once’s Time Enough
It’s this overwhelming sense of place that actually puts them closer to folk revival artists Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Be The Change: Props to Lawnya Vawnya, Girls Rock NL
Rather than capitulate to this idea of Newfoundland as impossibly stuck in the mud, let’s instead recognize and support forward-facing community initiatives such as these.
Sherry Ryan’s Wreckhouse “A Soundtrack to Life’s Heartaches and Hurrahs”
Mark your calendars: Sherry Ryan will be releasing her newest album, Wreckhouse, at The Ship Pub on April 27th.
Mark Bragg is Back: His New Album Drops March 29th
Mark Bragg doesn’t need much of an introduction in this town, where he’s as much a music establishment himself as say, Fred’s Records, or The Ship Inn Pub.
“10 Finely Tuned New Tracks” from Juno Nominee Kellie Loder
Kelly Loder released her long-awaited third album, Benefit of the Doubt, in early December at The Ship, following a 7-year interval between albums.
Ouroboros Brings the Party with Sophomore Effort
They’re one of the city’s preeminent party bands for a reason: they’ve always been about movement. You’d have to be tied to your chair to successfully resist dancing at one of their live shows.
Album Review: Clare Follett’s Neck Deep
When EMI Records offered Kate Bush a complete creative control record deal at age 16, she’d already written some 200 songs. Such record deals…