Mix Talks: Beauts gear up for Gridlock Festival
On Friday at 4pm, the gates will open, kicking off the inaugural Gridlock Festival in Halifax. One of the best new local Halifax bands, Beauts, […]
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HPX 2015: 8 East Coast Acts to Catch
How’s your Halifax Pop Explosion schedule planning coming along? We’re here to help. HPX brings great music to town for one fantastic week. But while […]
Halifax Pop Explosion announces 2015 lineup
An outdoor hot dog party, well the Halifax Pop Explosion lineup announcement, was moved indoors on Tuesday because of rain. But the party continued with […]
Soundcheck: Yukon Blonde solo project, Spencer Burton, Mac DeMarco documentary and more
Yukon Blonde frontperson debuts new solo project B.C. rock band Yukon Blonde are currently taking a little break to catch their collective breath between albums […]
Soundcheck: Jacques Greene, The Meds, Rich Aucoin and more!
Montreal’s house producer Jacques Greene announced that his latest album Vibrate will drop April 28. Along with the announcement Greene also announced a string tour […]
Mix Pick: An entire street in Halifax throws a party for a cause
This week, we here at Mixtape are going to do something a little different for the Mix Pick. You see, we heard that a massive […]
Get your festival Instagram photos in Mixtape (and 7 musicians you should follow)
Every time I scroll through Instagram, I am reminded it’s festival season. It seems like everybody I follow was either at Bonnaroo in Tennessee […]