I missed the boat when Dirty Beaches played a few Ottawa shows in late 2010. Now his tunes are being featured on Pitchfork. I did some research. I was not aware that Dirty Beaches is a one-man musician. When I read the name Alex Zhang Hungtai, I was like “He is Chinese!!” (Technically Taiwanese if we’re being politically …
Its still early 2011 and already there is hype surrounding Braids. Native Speaker is their first full-length and it will drop on January 18, 2011. Will Native Speaker be the album of 2011 and make it in people’s best of list this early on? There has been various media buzz surrounding them. The album was …
Video is NSFW AUSTRA “Beat and the Pulse” Uploaded by domino. – Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more. Finally the cat is out of the bag on Austra. Austra for those that don’t know, is a band that consist of Katie Stelmanis, Maya Postepski and Dorian Wolf (ex-Spiral Beach). The big news is that …
January 18, 2011 will be the drop/release date for the long awaited full-length of Native Speaker by Braids. Now they are in high demand since being signed to Kanine Records in the USA and Flemish Eye (Home to Chad VanGaalen) in Canada. I am revisiting a review from August 29, 2009 on their EP called …
This is probably my first show to attend in 2011. It was at the Avant-Garde Bar. Playing was: The Jon Cohen Experimental JF Robitaille Loon Choir It was a pretty interesting night of music. Ranging from pop-rock (Loon Choir), acoustic folk (JF Robitaille) to experimental (Jon Cohen). Here are the rest of the photos [flickr-gallery …
Long Long Long is a track on the White album by The Beatles. Now it is a Halifax band that takes the name. Not sure if they got it from that song? Anyways this band will be joining Braids on January 21st in Ottawa (Facebook Event).
Got news from Jamie who plays drums with the Ottawa band Paramedics, that they are done with the EP and released the first song off from it. The times I’ve seen them live, they play a hypnotic intense set.
After the show with Evening Hymns, Giant Hand and Jon Amor. I ran over to Raw Sugar Cafe. Caught the last song of Nat Baldwin. Nat Baldwin for those who don’t know plays in The Dirty Projectors. This time he is touring solo with an upright bass. When I was there it was just amazing. …
It was a fun night of great music at Raw Sugar Cafe on October 9, 2010 One act from Chicago USA and another coming all the way from Melbourne, Australia and one from Winnipeg. Talking about the Casiotone for the Painfully Alone with Otouto. Winnipeg’s Boats! was added for the Ottawa show. There was a …
Radar Rings #2 happened on October 7, 2010 at Club Saw For that don’t know Placemachine is a collective that does show that is not the norm in the Ottawa music scene. Playing at the show were: Daniel Francis Doyle Adam Saikaley Knifemares Clinton Machine Daniel Francois Doyle was very captivating live with his one …