It was like a snowfall. Flurries at first. Then, a quickly mounting storm. “YOUR company has systemic racism on its own, NOT just because most companies also have it,” reads one of many comments on an Instagram post shared last June by the Halifax Pop Explosion. “recognize that the racism stems from somewhere personal, whether […]
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Sorrey season is In Full Bloom
Sorrey w/Calm Baretta, Little Cities, Vince The Messenger Fri Oct 25, 4:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 F all may be nature’s brilliant and prolonged sendoff before winter, but this year it’s also the start of Sorrey season. “I do feel like we’re blooming. I feel like we’re taking advantage of all these opportunities […]
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Halifax Pop Explosion reveals full 2019 lineup
It was back in April when PUP—the Toronto punk four-piece that’s garnering international attention and acclaim for its latest, Morbid Stuff—leaked it’d be playing a show at The Marquee Ballroom, during dates that lined up with Halifax Pop Explosion. And though cool kids around town made sure that set was sold out before it was […]
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Autumn concert announcements: Lucinda Williams and Japanese Breakfast
Even as summer’s heat remains a distant memory, the crispness of fall can already be felt in a pair of excellent show announces today. On September 15, the iconic (actually) Lucinda Williams will bring her 20th anniversary celebration of the seminal Car Wheels on a Gravel Road to the Rebecca Cohn. “The influence of Car […]
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Best Music Festival
Gold Winner Halifax Jazz Festival Silver Winner Halifax Pop Explosion Bronze Winner In the Dead Of Winter Halifax Jazz Festival continues to sock dingers year after year, following up last year’s Anderson.Paak blowout with the likes of Chaka Khan, The War on Drugs and Daniel Caesar. “We strive to offer a genre-diverse lineup that is […]
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HPX18: Art d’Ecco
Art d’Ecco w/Sportsfan, Future Peers, Sorrey Friday, October 19, 1:30pm The Local, 2037 Gottingen Street, free Every year Halifax Pop Explosion brings in many talented artists from all around, but this year it’s got one of the most interesting and promising new Canadian artists going: Meet Art d’Ecco, a west coast-based, wig-sporting, lipstick-wearing, glam-rock musician […]
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HPX18: Hua Li
Hua Li w/DJ Shub, Cadence Weapon, Jayd Ink, Fat Tony, Blakdenim Saturday, October 20, 9pm The Marquee, 2037 Gottingen Street, $25 adv/$33 door “Part of why I started rapping is because I wanted to be the hook girl. I would write these rinky-dink raps as placeholders and sing a really cool hook,” says Hua Li, […]
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HPX18: Juice Girls
Juice Girls w/Jon McKiel, Steve Lambke Friday, October 19, 10:30pm Gus’ Pub, 2605 Agricola Street, $15 The long-distance band relationship of Juice Girls continues to thrive and bear sweet treats. The mostly Halifax-based dream-pop band just released its self-titled album on Monday night, ahead of Halifax Pop Explosion. With vocalist and songwriter Michelle Moraitis in […]
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HPX18: Rayannah
Rayannah w/Cartel Madras, Jon Bryant, Beach Body Friday, October 19, 5:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street, $15 From the airy opening flourishes of “Best of You,” Rayannah’s latest single, it’s clear that the Franco-Manitoban’s twist on electronic music isn’t what comes to mind when thinking of the genre: “In general, my stuff is pretty dense […]
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HPX18: Zaki Ibrahim
[image1] Zaki Ibrahim w/Yohvn Black Saturday, October 20, 9:30pm The Seahorse, 2037 Gottingen Street. $15 adv/$20 door Telepathy, time travel and sci-fi futurism aren’t themes you’d expect from an R&B album, but when it comes to Zaki Ibrahim’s latest, The Secret Life Of Planets, the subject matter is as limitless as she is. Born in […]
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Coast 25: EST. 1993
SHAKESPEARE BY THE SEA “My first visit to Point Pleasant Park, I saw the Cambridge Battery and then the Fort Ogilvie and thought, ‘Wow, these are great places. I wonder if anything is going on here.’ And nothing was. But then I found out that it was more difficult than I thought. In fact, prior […]
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The year in music
Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals at Halifax Jazz Festival Watching Anderson .Paak, one of the hottest current R&B artists, alternate between jumping around the stage to hyping the crowd from behind a drum kit seemed too good to actually be happening in Halifax. The crowd ate it up, singing along with every word and […]