Welcome to the last day of the festival! We’ve got plenty in store for you. Going on now is the Just Friend’s Brunch, Zine Fair, Cokemachineglow Showcase and the Secret Show featuring Cuff the Duke and Great Lake Swimmers at the Seahorse.

The conference is also in full swing with more panels and keynote speeches from Sarah Saturday and Martin Atkins at the Citadel Hotel. Come down if you’re interested in finding out more about what it takes to become successful in the music industry and what success actually means today.

This evening is the GRAND finale to all the excitement this week!! Starting off at the church is Silly Kissers and Handsome Furs from Montreal. Bring your egg shakers and dance all along! Ghettosocks is doing an intimate performance at the Company House, Scotch Tapes Showcase is going to kill it at Gus’ with a free cake and record shop. Loud fans will have their fill with Black Moor at the Pavilion and Martyr at Coconut Grove tonight. Plus so much more awesome music including North of America, Rockets Red Glare, Tokyo Police Club all performing tonight!! Get out and enjoy the last of the festival! Have fun everyone!

We’ve been having an incredible time and hope you are to! We can’t thank you enough for all of the awesome support! Let’s make the most of our last night together!!

Hey hey hey! We’re three days into HPX! and ready to step it up notch!

Advanced sold out shows will have tickets available at the door subject to venue capacity. Wristbands are still available at the Citadel Hotel (1960 Brunswick Street) from 11am to 7pm! Show up early to ensure you and your friends can get in A-okay!

We have 11 venues on the go including the newbies Coconut Grove, Company House, The Foggy Goggle, Centre for Arts & Technology Stage at St. Matthew’s Church and Tribeca. Even if you don’t get into the BIG shows (show up early!!) there’s tons of great stuff happening all over the city!

We’ve got a bunch more FREE All-ages shows today! Cousins + Forest City + Dog Day are performing at the CKDU Lobby. Tune in to 88.1FM from 4 to 6pm if you can’t make it down. Bring down your best stuff for the mixtape swap at 5pm at the Citadel Hotel. Followed by the Boss Loops Station National Competiton from 6 to 9pm. It’s going to get loopy up in the Citadel tonight!

Start your evening at a church performance with Old Man Luedecke + Jon Mckiel, or something more intimate at Company House featuring Tasseomancy (formerly Ghost Bees), or kick it up with a rock/dance party at Tribeca featuring Ten Kens, Writer’s Strike Modern Superstitions starting at 8pm,. After that, it’s really up to you! with so much amazing stuff happening all over Halifax!

Halifax Pop Explosion is fully launched after an amazing opening night of great music at the Citadel Hotel followed by packed rooms at Gus’, Paragon and Seahorse. Can’t get enough? Come check out the Free CKDU Lobby show starting at 4pm with Bad Vibrations, Cursed Arrows and Secret Guest… MARK SULTAN is good to go for another round of his wild rock style-music.

We’ve got our good pals Picnicface present Movies That Killed Disco plus TV Party starting off the evening at the Citadel Hotel tonight from 6 to 9pm. Come down to enjoy some hilarious videos and free popcorn!!

Tonight is looking PRIME with multiple excellent events going on! The two big SONIC Concerts are The New Pornographers at the Forum and GWAR at the Palace! Keep in mind these are non-wristband events, however tickets will still be available at the door! Bring a raincoat if you’re heading to GWAR for the buckets of blood heading your way, or not if red is your good colour.

Two after-parties will ensue after the SONIC concerts tonight, ISIS from THUNDERHEIST is stirring up a crazy dance party at the Paragon, and Demonhost will showcase an arsenal of local metal including Black Moor at Gus’. Come out to support out-of-town and local artists alike! We’re in the thick of it now! Dive in head first, there’s TONS of rad stuff to catch!