The Halifax Pop Explosion is a music festival that takes place every fall, two weeks after Thanksgiving, in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Since forming in 1993, the festival has expanded its programming to support other genres within the independent music community as well as the power pop that it is best known for. It now features acts from hip hop and electronica to folk rock and alt-country to punk and hardcore and everything in between. With shows all around town over five days the festival exhibits considerable breadth in presenting new music.
Ticket Price: $50 - $250
Headliners
Festival lineup
- Bad Vibrations
- Basia Bulat
- Bloodhouse
- Boats
- Boxer the Horse
- Cuff the Duke
- First Aid Kit
- Forest City Lovers
- GWAR
- Gramercy Riffs
- Great Lake Swimmers
- Grimes
- Handsome Furs
- High on Fire
- Hot Panda
- Imaginary Cities
- Iron Giant
- Isis (of Thunderheist)
- Jason Collett
- Kylesa
- Monogrenade
- My Brightest Diamond
- Quivers
- Radio Radio
- Sloan
- So Cow
- Teenanger
- The Casualties
- The Darcys
- The Hoa Hoa's
- The Hold Steady
- The New Pornographers
- The Pack A.D.
- The Pink Noise
- Tokyo Police Club
- Torche
- Twin Peaks
- Ty Segall
- Young Rival
Festival News and Rumors

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Spencer Kaufman May 18, 2022

Music Midtown 2022: Jack White, MCR, Fall Out Boy, and More to Play Atlanta Fest
Alex Young May 17, 2022

Chemical Brothers, M.I.A., Flume, Jamie xx to Play Inaugural Portola Music Festival in San Francisco
Alex Young May 16, 2022

Reunited Sunny Day Real Estate Added to Furnace Fest Lineup
The emo pioneers are making their first live appearances since 2010.
Jon Hadusek May 12, 2022

Riot Fest 2022 Lineup: MCR, Misfits, Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Sunny Day Real Estate & More
Carys Anderson May 11, 2022