Saturday, October 26, 2013 After devouring Lobster Eggs Benedict at Your Father’s Moustache (highly recommended!) and restraining ourselves from purchasing all of the vinyl at the Record and Zine fair, we headed out to spend the rest of the afternoon at the Nevado Records showcase at The Company House that came complete with free pizza! […]

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 Outtacontroller (Olympic Community Hall, 8:00PM) We arrived to the Olympic Community Centre in time to catch the last little bit of Halifax band Outtacontroller. The frantic edge to their blazing power pop-punk tunes proved to be a fun start to our night. If your ears haven’t yet come across these East […]

Saturday, October 22, 2011 Saturday, the final day of HPX, was a little crazy. I started off the afternoon at the big free showcase that was moved from Grand Parade Square (the location of Occupy Nova Scotia) to Olympic Community Hall. Plants and Animals After catching some of Carmen Townsend, Plants and Animals were on […]

Thursday, October 20, 2011 The Daredevil Christopher Wright I started off my HPX Day 3 at St. Matthew’s United Church once again. The first band of the night was The Daredevil Christopher Wright, made up of brothers Jon Sunde and Jason Sunde, as well as Jesse Edgington. With beautiful harmonies accompanying the sweet, warm folk […]

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Rich Aucoin We opened up our HPX Day 2 to Rich Aucoin’s epic album release show at St. Matthew’s United Church. I usually hesitate to use the word epic, but in this case it’s more than appropriate. Aucoin brought along 80+ people to make up a choir and band. He started […]