Afrotronix was at Mercury Lounge on March 29, 2018.
Month: March 2018
This was an unbelievable show to start off the Easter weekend at The 27 Club on March 29, 2018. Cadence Weapon started off the show. He recently dropped his eponymous album earlier this year. Got help by Ottawa’s SeiizMikk providing the DJ help. Great set to dance around to tracks like My Crew (Woooo), High …
The National Gallery of Canada and Canada Council for the Arts held the opening reception for the eight winners of the 2018 Governor General’s Awards in Visual & Media Arts. They are Glenn Alteen, Bruce Eves, Wyn Geleynse, Spring Hurlbut, Midi Onodera, Sandra Semchuk, Adrian Stimson, and Jack Sures. The exhibition runs until August 5, …
Arboretum festival presented their start of spring with their sprung party featuring Bernice and Adam Saikaley. Sadly Erica Eso was on the bill but had to cancel due to a fender bender. Nice cloud installation by Conor Byron (?). Nice electro-dance set by Adam Saikaley. After a year of anticipation with 2017’s Puff EP, Toronto’s …
Here is the March 26th edition of No Filter on CHUO 89.1 FM. Had a phone interview with Cadence Weapon to talk about the show on March 29th at the 27 Club with Too Many Zooz and the album. The interview is in the first hour around the 45 minute mark after the song My …
Went to the Dominion Tavern on March 24, 2018. Performing was Eamon McGrath, Mushy Gushy and Shadow High. Mushy Gushy was the second band to play. Indie garage rock set! Caught most of Eamon McGrath’s set. Previewed alot of new materials from his upcoming album. He was totally excited to play at the Dominion Tavern. …
This was my first time at Switched on Synths at House of Targ. I was there to see Odonis Odonis and you can say it was sort of an LP release show for their 2017 album No Pop. Intense set which was filled with experimental post-punk electro-rock dance music! Also the fog machine filled up …
Geoffroy stopped by in Ottawa for a show at the 27 Club on March 23, 2018. It is a year now since the release of Coastline which is filled with downtempo electro-pop music. Nice time grooving to Geoffroy’s music and surprised he got away with smoking “something” on stage. Opening up the show was Ottawa’s …
CBC Ottawa held their first annual event at Impact Hub Ottawa called Trailblazers on March 22, 2018. More info about the 10 winners who are Maya Basudde, Linda Vanderlee, Robert Chartier, Tanya Woods, Gord Stringer, Sylvain de Margeries, Qyayce Thomas, Justin Holmes, Rian Alson and Dayna Desmarais, click here.
Got to check out Infinity Mirrors by Yayoi Kusama at AGO on March 21, 2018. Second time to see this exhibition and there was no way I was going to miss out on this! Toronto was the only Canadian stop for this exhibition. The demand for this was insanely huge and luckily got tickets for …