Halifax (band)

Halifax
Origin	Thousand Oaks, California, USA
Genres	Pop punk, melodic hardcore, post-hardcore
Years active	2003–present
Members	Chris Brandt Adam Charles Eric Ivener Tommy Guindon
Past members	Justin Chlowitz Dan Locascio Matt Locascio Kevin Donlon Doug Peyton Mike Hunau

Halifax is a four-piece rock band from Thousand Oaks, California. They formed in 2003 and are currently unsigned. On their Myspace page the band announced that they will not be going with Drive-Thru Records on their 2009 release but are shipping the album off to other labels. They achieved notable success with their 2004 EP A Writer's Reference (selling over 34,000 copies to date) after making a cameo appearance on MTV's The Real World: Austin. The band's second full-length album, The Inevitability of a Strange World, was released in May 2006. In December 2006, they won MTV2's Dew Circuit Breakout competition.

The band Halifax started in Thousand Oaks, California as a simple leisure activity. Out of boredom, Dan Locascio, Matt Locascio, Justin Chlowitz and guitarist Chris Brandt would write songs at the Locascios' house. They later recruited vocalist Mike Hunau to form a full-time touring band. The Locascios' father came up with the name for the band while setting up a hockey tournament in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in which Dan Locascio and Justin Chlowitz were to be playing later that year. After several months of occasional touring, Halifax recorded their eleven-song debut album within a week in March 2003. The self-produced and self-funded Start Back at Start was licensed and released in June 2003 by Weymouth, Massachusetts independent record label ECA Records.

However, it soon became obvious that Hunau and Brandt were not getting along with the other members of the band. Being the creative core of Halifax, the two decided to take a chance on a new batch of members. The band added guitarist Adam Charles, bassist Kevin Donlon and drummer Tommy Guindo. The new line-up pooled their cash to record their second album, similar to the manner in which Start Back at Start was created. The result was the yet-again self-produced EP A Writer's Reference, released on January 25, 2004 by No Milk Records. While Halifax's debut was much more reminiscent of the band's pop punk influences—namely "Taking Back Sunday" and The Starting Line—their new material showcased a more distinctive style, mainly because of the line-up changes they had undergone. The quintet felt they had become a new band and accordingly retired the entire Start Back at Start catalog from their live shows. They also toyed heavily with the idea of renaming, but eventually stuck with their already established moniker.

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