Halifax Pop Explosion Lineup Announced

The full list of acts for the 2009 Halifax Pop Explosion have been announced. The 17th annual festival runs October 20-24, 2009 in Halifax.

Heading to Halifax from other parts of the country are:

The Acorn, Ancestors, Attack In Black, Barn Burner, Boys Who Say No, Brian Borcherdt, Bruce Peninsula, By Divine Right, Cadence Weapon, Carpenter, D-Sisive, Dan Mangan, Dance Electric, Dead Wife, Devil Eyes, Diemonds, Dinosaur Bones, Dinuk Wijeratne & Kinan Azmeh, Doug Hoyer, The Eddie Orso Band, The Elwins, Entire Cities, Ex~Po, Final Fantasy with Symphony Nova Scotia, Forest City Lovers, Fox Jaws, Grand Trine, Gravity Wave, Great Bloomers, Hannah Georges, Hot Panda, Japandroids, Jason Bajada, Julie Fader, Lake of Stew, Little Girls, The Magnificent Sevens, Maylee Todd, MSTRKRFT, Nadja, Off The International Radar, Oh No Forest Fires, Ohbijou, Old Folks Home, Olenka and the Autumn Lovers, The Pack A.D, The Paint Movement, Play Guitar, Red Mass, Said The Whale, Slow Down, Molasses, Snailhouse, Sports, The Band, Straight Reads the Line, Think About Life, Thy Flesh Consumed, Timber Timbre, Valleys, Will Currie and the Country French, The Weather Station, You and Me, You Say Party, We Say Die, Yukon Blonde, and Zeus.

Then there are East Coast acts playing close to home:

A History Of, Bike Rodeo, Black Moor, Crissi Cochrane, The Danks, The Divorcees, DJ Double A, Dog Day, Dusty Keleher, The Fat Stupids, The First Aid Kit, Gamma Gamma Rays, The Gideons, The Got To Get Got, The Grass, Grassmarket, The Hemingways, Hopeful Monster, Husband & Knife, In This Style, Jenn Grant, Jenocide, Julie Doiron, The Just Barelys, Kestrels, Lovesinger, Mardeen, Maria Osende Flamenco Company, The Memories Attack, The Mighty Northumberland, Norma Macdonald, Poison Percy Rufus, The Prospectors' Union, Rich Aucoin, Scientists of Sound, Secret Colours, Sleepless Nights, Smothered In Hugs, The Stolen Minks, The Subtitles, Their Majesties, Thomas/Richard, Tomcat Combat, Two Hours Traffic, Uigg, We, the Undersigned, Y-Rush, and York Redoubt.

For a schedule of who is playing when and where visit http://www.halifaxpopexplosion.com/schedule.html or hit up halifaxpopexplosion.com for info on tickets and accomodation.