Halifax Pop Explosion

Halifax Pop Explosion Add Travi$ Scott, Dillinger Escape Plan, Cloud Nothings and More

PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2015

Organizers behind the Maritimes' Halifax Pop Explosion has announced yet another round of additions to this fall's festivities, with a few...

Halifax Pop Explosion Gets Purity Ring, Alvvays, Rich Aucoin

PUBLISHED May 7, 2015

While the next instalment of the long-running Halifax Pop Explosion is practically half a year away, organizers have begun to roll out line...

Joyful Talk

Jacuzzi Sunrise, Halifax NS, October 25

PUBLISHED Oct 27, 2014

At a pop-up show co-organized by Aaron Mangle of Cousins, Jay Crocker and a dude everyone calls Dicey played some inventive, melodic noise-...

Freelove Fenner

Gus' Pub, Halifax NS, October 25

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2014

Freelove Fenner have been touted for years from musicians who consider the Montreal trio to be a major influence, so it was expectedly pack...

Moon

Gus' Pub, Halifax NS, October 25

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2014

Halifax's krautrock five-piece, Moon, filled up Gus' Pub in the afternoon for the first set on the last day of the Halifax Pop Explosion. M...

Mounties

Olympic Hall, Halifax NS, October 25

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2014

Mounties opened with "Eyes of a Stranger"-meets-Zeppelin radio hit "Pretty Respectable," from their 2014 Polaris Music Prize long-listed al...

Danny Brown

Multi-Purpose Centre, Halifax NS, October 25

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2014

"Woo! It's hot in this bitch," yelled Detroit rapper Danny Brown, characteristically unique in both sound and appearance, wearing black lea...

Aisha Alfa

The Company House, Halifax NS, October 24

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2014

Toronto-via-Winnipeg's Aisha Alfa had a really impressive, energetic, and funny standup set, revealing a lot about herself and her single s...