On May 29, 2016, CHUO 89.1 FM celebrated their 25th Anniversary party at Ottawa Little Theatre. With that, past and present volunteers, staff and radio show host mingled and shared their stories about the radio station. There was a great performance by Bonjay who haven’t played in Ottawa in quite some time! It has been …
Moonfruits played a wonderful set at Club Saw on April 30, 2016. It was part of May Day Party and fundraiser. Nice acoustic folky-pop set which was entertaining and enjoyable. Click below for more photos. [AFG_gallery id=’322′]
On Record Store Day 2016, I went to the Record Centre and checked out a lovely performance by The Visit. The Visit, comprised of cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne and vocalist Heather Sita Black, is a musical dialogue that transcends genres and idioms. Combining the structures and instrumentation of classical chamber music with the emotional and rhythmic …
Halifax’s Alana Yorke did a in-store performance at The Record Centre. This was before her show at Raw Sugar Cafe for later that night. It was a nice wonderful performance of her indie alternative dream pop music. Click below for more photos. [AFG_gallery id=’262′]
Moonfruits performed a lovely folk pop set at Raw Sugar Cafe. The show was presented by Debaser & CHUO 89.1 FM. Sadly I didn’t see the other two acts. But what I heard was it was a packed house. Besides performing tracks from their album debut. The lovely duo also mentioned that they were selling peanut …
A new act has been added to Toronto hip indie label Buzz Records. Bad Channels are a Toronto based electronic duo consisting of Nick Grottick and Jess Gierusz. They dropped their single called Sad Channels (How funny!) It sounds like if HSY went into that route of dark electronic music. RIYL: Crystal Castles, Braids and Purity Ring. …
Whitehorse performed a lovely acoustic set at The Record Centre. It is for those fans who can’t get into the sold out show at the NAC. Melissa and Luke played about five songs. During the set, they got Lindy Vopnfjörð to perform one song. Definitely one of the best in-store set that The Record Centre …
Ottawa duo Big Dick finally dropped their second album called Disappointment. 15 tracks of high energetic thrashing post-punk garage grungey rock music. The album has a theme in disappointment on the tracks Let Down, Last Days, Give Up, Good Hunting and Bad Dream. What is different this time from their debut album is most of …
I swear Anna Mayberry can do almost anything music wise. While it is noise punk-rock band HSY to a lo-fi folk-rock in Anamai. Now you can add dance electro-synth artist with this new project called Beta/mai. This is a collaboration with Michael Butler who goes by Beta Frontiers. Check out the single Never Enough via …
After checking out Crowded Room show, I headed downtown to get my dance on. I was very eager to see Toronto’s Ark Analog play live for their first Ottawa show at the Mercury Lounge. If you aren’t familiar they are an electro-pop duo made up of Maylee Todd and Dan Werb, one half of acclaimed …