Halifax Pop Explosion

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  BADBADNOTGOOD

  Halifax Forum Multipurpose Room, Halifax NS, October 23

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2014

  Year-over-year repeat HPX performances are a rare beast; after all, considering how touring cycles work, how much more do most bands have t...

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  Kuato

  Gus' Pub, Halifax NS, October 22

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2014

  How do you a shut up a chatty crowd? Distract them with bright lights. I'm only being slightly facetious here: one of the perils of a mul...

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  Solids

  Gus' Pub, Halifax NS, October 22

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2014

  Montreal's Solids began their HPX set at Gus' Pub with a single guitar note, humming and reverberating through the speakers like an ominous...

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  Lights

  Halifax Forum Multipurpose Room, Halifax NS, October 22

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2014

  The cheers at Lights' show at Halifax's Forum made for one of the louder, more piercing crowds you're likely to hear at HPX this year. Th...

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  Tokyo Police Club

  Olympic Community Hall, Halifax NS, October 22

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2014

  Tokyo Police Club have something of a standing residency at the Halifax Pop Explosion. They played the festival in 2010… and then in...

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  TEEN

  The Carleton, Halifax NS, October 22

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2014

  This rather remarkable New York quartet was all over the place, in the best way. Teeny Lieberson (formerly of Here We Go Magic) seemed a bi...

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  Austra

  Reflections Cabaret, Halifax NS, October 21

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2014

  The ground floor of the new Reflections Cabaret, relocated from its old location on Sackville Street, is a surprisingly bright space &#8212...

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  Single Mothers

  The Seahorse, Halifax NS, October 21

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2014

  "This song is called 'Don't Stage Dive,'" snarled Single Mothers' vocalist Drew Thompson. The song wasn't actually called "Don't Stage Div...