Westfest 2019 kicked off at Tom Brown Areana on June 7, 2019. Hadn’t been attending the festival in recent years. I was more excited for the first night’s line-up which had Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Bonnie Doon, Novusolis, Salmon Ella and Tina Sol. A7G Youth Drummers and Amanda Fox kicked off the festival with a Indigenous ceremony. …
Have a listen to No Filter on CHUO 89.1 FM for June 3, 2019. Hour One: Hour Two: Playlist: Yamantaka//Sonic Titan – Hungry Ghost / One (Audiotree Live Version) Bonnie Doon – Panty Twister Novusolis – Breathe Basia Bulat – La La Lie Kathleen Edwards – The Cheapest Key Lydia Ainsworth – Give It Back …
Packed and hot sweaty show at Pressed with Jonathan Pearce and Giant Hand on June 1, 2019. It was the debut album release show for Jonathan Pearce of Winchester Warm‘s solo LP called Systems. Starting off the show was Giant Hand. The Ottawa ex-pat living Toronto hadn’t been performing in quite some time. Nice homecoming …
Lovely and intimate show at St. Luke’s Church which is on 760 Somerset St. West. The long awaited LP release show for Flying Hórses‘ Reverie. Starting off the show was Socalled. It has been so long since I last saw him perform. This was a different show for Socalled since it was a solo-piano performance. …
Ottawa’s Slack Bridges performed a hot sizzling show at Queen St. Fare on the last day of May. This was their last hometown before the fall plus with the release on the second album. It was a way to kick off summer (sort of). Fun times getting R&B, funky and soul to their music. Great …
May is coming to an end. Almost getting ready for the summer! Listen to the tracks that came out in that month.
Wonderful Saturday night show at Pressed with Language Arts and Cedric Noel. Great video installation by Hard Science. Cedric Noel started off the show with his own blend of melodic pop. Wanting the audience to feel very comfortable during his set. 8/10. Language Arts performed a nice dreamy art pop music. Preview tracks from the …
Check out the photos from the May 18, 2019 show at House of Targ. Performing that night was Max, Tongue Helmet and Jesse Dangerously.
Check out the photos from the May 18, 2019 show at Black Squirrel Books. I only caught two of the four band performing. They were Teenage Halloween from New Jersey and Stoby from Ottawa.
Have a listen to No Filter on CHUO 89.1 FM for May 20, 2019. Had a interview with Language Arts, who will be playing a show on May 25th at Pressed. The interview is in hour one around the 30 minute mark. Hour one: HOUR TWO: Playlist: Bear’s Den – Fuel on the Fire Vera …