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The Halifax Pop Explosion has just announced its dates for 2016. Surprise! It’s October 19 to 22. While we’re waiting patiently for the line-up to be announced, what better time to muse about who’s on our wish-list?
- Run the Jewels: Killer Mike and El-P are at the height of their gritty, uncompromising hip-hop game. Their deep, industrial beats and dark production would make for one heavy show. You’d have a hard time keeping Halifax hip-hop heads away from this one. Maybe we’d get a taste of their cat-based remix album, Meow the Jewels.
- Grimes: Queen of witch-pop. We thought she might have disappeared for a few years there. Fortunately Grimes killed (v. maimed?) those uncertainties and is back in the spotlight. With her driving pop and pixie-from-hell singing style this’d be a hit show for Halifax’s art angels.
- Destroyer: West Coast baroque pop from Dan Bejar’s poetic, reverby, orchestrated reverie would be right at home at a venue somewhere like St. Matt’s church. There’s no way that Halifax would miss out on the charms this act’s grooving instrumentals and dreamy vocals.
- BadBadnotgood: Always an uproarious show, BadBadnotgood have proven to be a highlight of Pop Explosions past and it’d be great to see them grace the east coast again. Their jazz-infused hip hop jams are not to be trifled with.
- Ty Segall: showcasing some of the best of what garage rock and psych has to offer, a Ty Segall appearance at Pop Explosion would feel fitting. His driving psych-rock music is right in line with a lot of the sounds Halifax has been producing over the past 25 years. There’s no end to the lo-fi love in this city, and no doubt Haligonians would embrace Ty Segall’s weird, punchy style.
A photo posted by Halifax Pop Explosion (@halifaxpopx) on Apr 13, 2016 at 8:31am PDT
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This article appears in Apr 7-13, 2016.
After the winter I want to slowly enjoy May – Sept. before thinking of freaking Oct.