It was a rainy Sunday and managed to catch 2 acts performing on the last day of Ottawa Beat’s One Year Anniversary Weekend Party. Sadly I missed out Kelly Sloan and Kimberly Sunstrum. I managed to catch Lake Urmia and Heavy Bedroom. Caught the last song of Lake Urmia. It was my first time to …
With so many list going around and forgetting who to put down. There has been some great releases from Ottawa acts in 2016 so I made the list for it. This list includes EPs since there was only a small handful that released a full album. Here is the Top 16 Ottawa albums and EPs …
It’s that time of year where everyone is compiling their “Best of 2016” list. I’m starting off by revealing the EPs released in 2016 from #11 to #20. HONORABLE MENTION: Tight Snake by Mushy Gushy
Here is this week’s Top 5 Songs of the week. Don’t forget to tune in at 4pm on CHUO 89.1FM This week at #1 it is the Ottawa band Heavy Bedroom. Soft Pillow of Doubt is taken from the split with Kings Quest. There is a new debut from DIANA who dropped a new single …
Since Bluesfest is over and done, things in Ottawa should be back to normal. Have a listen to No Filter. HOUR ONE: HOUR TWO: PLAYLIST: Steve Adamyk Band – She’s On My Mind/Heydays Mitski – Once More to See You Japanese Breakfast – Triple 7 She-Devils – I Wanna Touch You Ryan Hemsworth – Wait …
Here is this week’s Top 5 Songs of the week. Don’t forget to tune in at 4pm on CHUO 89.1FM This week at #1 for the fifth week and retiring is Preoccupations. Two new debuts from Hooded Fang and Snowblink Don’t forget to vote for next week’s Top 5. Loading…
On No Filter, I played some picks of bands and singers perfomring at the 2016 Ottawa RBC Bluesfest happening from July 7 to 17th. This was mostly for the second week. On the second hour in the 30 minute mark, I had a interview with Shane from DZ Deathrays. They will be playing this Saturday …
Here is this week’s Top 5 Songs of the week. Don’t forget to tune in at 4pm on CHUO 89.1FM This week at #1 for the fourth week is Preoccupations. Since there are no debuts this week since I am lazy because of Ottawa Bluesfest. Don’t forget to vote for next week’s Top 5. Loading…
Split EP can be a good way to get newer audiences from two different bands. Case in point with Ottawa’s Kings Quest and Heavy Bedroom. Earlier in June they put out a split cassette with two songs each. One side you get the noisy lo-fi dream pop-rock sound of Kings Quest. On the flip-side, things …
Happy 4th of July! On No Filter, I played some picks of bands and singers perfomring at the 2016 Ottawa RBC Bluesfest happening from July 7 to 17th. This was mostly for the first week. Also on the show, I played 16 tracks for the best albums of 2016 so far. Have a listen to …