Shotgun Jimmie releases Transistor Sister, tours Canada
Today marks the release of Transistor Sister, the new album from Sackville, NB’s Shotgun Jimmie, a satisfying slice of smart, so-called slacker-rock that features members of Ladyhawk (Ryan Peters) and...
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SappyFest’s DIY mail service delivers us handwritten (and drawn) responses...
SappyFest took place this past weekend in the cutest town in Canada: Sackville, New Brunswick. The festival is a small one, now in its sixth year, where the boundaries between artist and audience truly...
View ArticleWatch the new Shotgun Jimmie video for “Suzy”
On the hottest day(s) of the year in Toronto, Shotgun Jimmie decided to make a music video about snow sports, requiring actors and stunt people to dress up in ski gear to barrel down the streets of...
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Halifax Pop Explosion 2011: Thursday Best Bets
> AUX’s BEST BETS: Thursday, October 20 Wednesday night at the Pop Explosion was quality goods top to bottom; not only did Rich Aucoin’s album release show cement itself in the proverbial history...
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Halifax Pop Explosion 2011: Day four roundup
You know what they say (at least I think I have heard them say this)—what a difference a day makes. Friday was a sunny, warm, beautiful day in the city, a nice change from the miserable rain storm the...
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Top 10 Indie/Rock/Pop releases: 2011
2011 was a year. And like years before it, people released albums. And like those other years, we ranked what we thought were the best of the respective genres we cover — Indie/Pop/Rock, Hip Hop, Pop,...
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Best of 2011: Shotgun Jimmie
AUX is in the habit of ranking what we thought were the best of the respective genres we cover — Indie/Pop/Rock, Hip Hop, Pop, Metal, Punk, and Electronic. This year, we also reached out to as many of...
View ArticleThe Inbreds, Temper Trap, and Dragonette added as Canadian Music Week headliners
The full details for this year’s Canadian Music Week are still being sorted out, but another round of acts has just been announced, and it features another (2nd) reunion of another Canadian indie-rock...
View ArticleNewfoundland’s Lawnya Vawnya festival announces Kid Koala, Obits, Bry Webb...
The third annual Lawnya Vawnya festival of independent music and DIY culture in St. John’s, Newfoundland, will take place April 17-21, 2013, and has announced its line-up. Kid Koala, Obits, and former...
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AUX Top 10 – March 2013
Each month at AUX, our specialists in punk, metal, indie, hip hop, electronic, and pop vouch for their favourite releases of the month and have it out behind the scenes to bring you a trim,...
View ArticleApril issue of AUX Magazine now available for free download!
The April 2013 issue of AUX Magazine is now available for download in the App Store. This month we celebrate the 10-year anniversary re-release and tour behind the Postal Service’s Give Up, the sole...
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A/S/L: An online chat with Shotgun Jimmie
When setting up these A/S/L stories, there’s always a concern about just how internetty a subject might be. After all, you don’t want to end up talking to a slow-typer or, worse yet, a Luddite who...
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PHOTOS: Sappyfest 2013
Sappyfest in Sackville, New Brunswick. August 2-4, 2013. \n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t Photos by: Stephen McGill, AUX TV
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Shotgun Jimmie keeps on cramming for a rock ‘n’ roll PhD
Self-portrait by the artist with his pet bird Pickles. The tenth edition of SappyFest, Canada’s cutest indie-rock music fest, goes down this weekend in the quaint town of Sackville, New Brunswick. Over...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Listen to Shotgun Jimmie’s new album ‘Field of Trampolines’
Photo: Colin Medley Last summer, just after Sappyfest 10 in Sackville, New Brunswick, Shotgun Jimmie and his new backing band, Winnipeg’s Human Music, drove a little farther east to Halifax to record...
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Shotgun Jimmie keeps on cramming for a rock ‘n’ roll PhD
Self-portrait by the artist with his pet bird Pickles. The tenth edition of SappyFest, Canada’s cutest indie-rock music fest, goes down this weekend in the quaint town of Sackville, New Brunswick. Over...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Listen to Shotgun Jimmie’s new album ‘Field of Trampolines’
Photo: Colin Medley Last summer, just after Sappyfest 10 in Sackville, New Brunswick, Shotgun Jimmie and his new backing band, Winnipeg’s Human Music, drove a little farther east to Halifax to record...
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Shotgun Jimmie keeps on cramming for a rock ‘n’ roll PhD
Self-portrait by the artist with his pet bird Pickles. The tenth edition of SappyFest, Canada’s cutest indie-rock music fest, goes down this weekend in the quaint town of Sackville, New Brunswick. Over...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Listen to Shotgun Jimmie’s new album ‘Field of Trampolines’
Photo: Colin Medley Last summer, just after Sappyfest 10 in Sackville, New Brunswick, Shotgun Jimmie and his new backing band, Winnipeg’s Human Music, drove a little farther east to Halifax to record...
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