June 14th I attended the 6th annual Westfest in Ottawa. If you don’t know, Westfest is a festival that takes place in Westboro. Also its a free concert that takes place all day in a park. I happen to attend the Sunday event since I had a busy schedule for Friday and Saturday. Sunday was …
Here is a weekly check on my favorite albums of this week. Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees Why: This is such a fun dancey record. Also its Rebekah Higgs alter-ego band. They will be playing in Ottawa this Friday at Zapdods Beeblebrox Favorite tracks: You Don’t Miss Me [audio:http://www.killbeatmusic.com/mp3s/You%20Dont%20Miss%20Me.mp3] Girls You Love Trust Fund …
I went to the NAC 4th Stage on June 2nd for Blue Bird North which was organized by Songwriters Association of Canada. Playing there were: Lynn Miles Eddie Schwartz Kellylee Evans Peter Katz It was a nice evening of these four Canadian singer songwriters. It was hosted by Ana Miura but Lynn Miles was the …
This is my 200th post and I will do a review on this album. It was going to be a review of a show I went last night but it will follow this. After seeing a interesting show on May 23, 2009. I was one of five lucky people to purchase Tune-Yards album on vinyl. …
With so many albums to listen to. I feel like I don’t get alot of time to make a review. I’ve decided to make a top five picks that you should check weekly or bi-weekly. New or old albums and some reviewed on this site which I will make a link. Here goes the first …
Last night I went to Mavericks (apparently got moved from Dekcuf) to see Paramedics. They were opening up for Fox Jaws and Amos The Transparent. Being a Sunday night, I decided to see Paramedics since I wanted to come and show some support. They are a six member piece stemming from other bands, one from …
It was a very cold Sunday evening down at Confederation Park. The free all ages event was called Skate4Cancer, where it was organized by Rob Dyer and spreading the message about finding a cure for cancer. Also there was music and playing there was: Steve St.Pierre (who usually plays in the band Anchors) The Love …
I had a fun time at Mavericks seeing all three Toronto bands. With alot of events happening on May 29th, I decided to choose this show. Considering it was sort of a last minute shuffling around to get all three acts to play a venue in Ottawa. All I have to say is that Toronto …
Finally got a chance to listen to this whole album by Ottawa’s electronica artist Liar’s Rosebush. I thought he is a DJ but he doesn’t really spin records, so I would label him now as a musician. Got the CD at his CD Release Party. I would call this a unique concept album. Going through …
Today I got in the mail a CD by a Toronto singer (who also live in Ottawa before) named Pamela Brennan.Just released her debut album called One Hundred Photographs. Kind of interesting since I am a photographer and get an album title that is very photographic related. The album is very folky acoustic pop and …