Category Archives: Thoughts

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 3

August 20, 2012 Trev

I remember seeing ads for MP3 players and the iPod and not really cluing into what Creative and Apple were hoping to accomplish initially. "Why would you ever want to move away from this relatively stable media format?" (by this time, anti-skip wasassistingthemusic geeks in a big way) I thought (more…)Read More

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 2

August 17, 2012 Trev

Compact Discs were shiny, fancy and new, and proved to bring along with them a new slew of headaches. No more pencils in spokes, no more worrying about the Boom Box's appetite for iron oxidized plastic film, but now you had to be something of a bombspecialist,moveto fast, step (more…)Read More

The Origin Story and the Inspiration to Keep At It….

August 17, 2012 Trev

There's probably another post in the History that speaks to this a little bit, but I've been on a writing kick lately and thought this might be a good time to talk a little about the Origin Story of Hafilax. It was well intended, and conceived justoutofdesignschool by two (maybe idealistic) (more…)Read More

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 1

August 14, 2012 Trev

Music Geeks much like Geek Culture in general have experienced a boom with the advent of the Internet, but it wasn't always this way. In stopping to think about what I used to haul around with me, it's almost silly in retrospect, mind you at leastIwasn'thauling around a milk crate. (more…)Read More

Best of 2011

August 13, 2012 Trev

Childish Gambino, EP, Indie Five free ferocious tracks from an Emmy-winner was all it took to put the hip-hop scene on notice, this untitled EP was easily the hardest hitting hip-hop album of 2011. Childish Gambino,Camp,Glassnote Handsdownthisis one of the best debut albums in hip-hop, period. Honest and unpretentious, Camp simply hones the (more…)Read More

Hello 2012!!

January 30, 2012 Trev

Wow, I just popped my head in on Hafilax and realized over 3 months hadslippedby since my last update. This post is my attempt to fire things back up and get some regular posts going on. Sorry about the hiatus and I hope you keep reading. Also, Ijustsetup shop on tumblr, (more…)Read More

Big Sugar w/ Wide Mouth Mason @ The New Palace, Nov. 25/2011

November 25, 2011 Trev

Having reunited with Gary Lowe and Kelly “Mr. Chil” Hoppe back in 2010, Gordie Johnson and Big Sugar (finally!) made a triumphant return to Halifax on Friday night. The set-list consisted of a heavy quotient from Revolutions Per Minute (“Roads Ahead”, “Little Bit a All Right”), but all the staples (more…)Read More