Geil w/ Scumgrief, Black Moor, Voivod Thursday, October 20, 9pm The Marquee Club, 2037 Gottingen Street, $25 As a journalist, I report the facts. Here’s one: Geil makes the best punk songs around. Made up of four friends—vocalist Jessi Talbot, guitarist Ben Brennan, bassist Tri Le and drummer Aaron Burke—the band started off as a […]
Halifax Pop Explosion 2016
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Showing Creative Roots
Creative Roots fashion and music show Thursday, October 20, 6pm The Pavilion 5816 Cogswell Street Last year, Ann Denny of the non-profit Youth Art Connection sat down with folks from Halifax Pop Explosion and the Pavilion Youth Association with the goal of reviving the venerable Pavilion as a hub of the all-ages arts scene in town. […]
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City Natives drop lyrics to inspire
City Natives w/Quake Matthews, Jay Mayne Friday, October 21, 11:10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15 Since playing Halifax Pop Explosion in 2014, City Natives released a pair of albums and won e East Coast Music and Indigenous Music Awards, and this summer toured the Maritimes with A Tribe Called Red. The hip-hop collective of […]
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Extra Mega Bog
Mega Bog w/Nap Eyes, Freelove Fenner Wednesday, October 19 at 10:30pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 Mega Bog w/Old and Weird, The Painters, Soft Spot Thursday, October 20 at 6pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street $10 Mega Bog is always in a state of fluidity, the only constant being found in […]
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PUP patrol
PUP w/White Lung, Greys, Pkew Pkew Pkew Wednesday, October 19, 8pm The Marquee Club 2037 Gottingen Street $25 “My body has no clue what time zone it’s in,” says Stefan Babcock, on the line Thanksgiving morning, the day after he arrived home in Toronto from a surprisingly successful tour of Australia. PUP, the punk band […]
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Sample She-Devils
She-Devils w/Phern, Laps, Programm Wednesday, October 19 at 6pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street all ages $10 It’s OK to lose track of time and get sucked in and have your senses manipulated in the sample-heavy vortex of Montreal duo She-Devils. “For me, sound is really hypnotic. I definitely work at it from […]