When Halifax was the Next Seattle

While the Seattle grunge scene exploded in the early '90s, a distant echo was felt on the other side of the continent, in the similarly rainy seaport city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. With local heroes Sloan joining Nirvana on the DGC roster, the tight-knit network of bands around them—from power-pop pranksters Thrush Hermit to the dreamy Jale—all benefited from the spillover hype. Only Sloan survived, but Halifax's indie explosion shaped the terrain of the Canadian underground that exists today.