Decided to make a playlist of tracks that came out in January and played on my radio show No Filter. The only track that isn’t on Apple Music is the collaboration with King Princess and Fiona Apple. Have a listen from either from Apple Music or Spotify.
Attended the VIP Launch Party for Queen St. Fare. Earlier that day, I went to the media tour of the place. Wonderful event where you can try out samples from the vendors and drinks at Q Bar. There was the ribbon cutting and a fun performance by Ottawa’s The Peptides. Overall a fun night and …
It is that time of year! 2018 is coming to an end. With so many lists going around and forgetting who to put down. I know it is very early but I want to get this done with. Starting off with #11 to #20 of Ottawa release which includes EPs too. 11. Ethnotehnique – Basement …
Mercury Lounge turned 22 years old on November 3, 2018. Every year they hold their annual Epic Red Party to help celebrate with past/present residents DJ since 1996: Trevor Walker, Lance Baptiste, Jeff Laprate and Balu It was a wonderful night of dancing and celebrating a great venue in the market.
This was the scene for Record Store Day 2018 at The Record Centre when the doors opened at 10am. Thank goodness I got my copy of Arcade Fire’s EP, The National’s The Boxer Live in Brussels and Mac DeMarco’s Old Dog Demos.
November 10, 2017 was a special day for SPAO. They held their inaugural Open House at its new home in Little Italy (Preston St area)! Pretty nice building and area where they are. Can’t wait for more exhibition/vernissage they will have in store come 2018. Didn’t stay too long since it was getting too crowded …
It’s been a year since Canada lost singer/songwriter, musician, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen. His music still lives on. With that, I decided to choose my favorite 10 songs. While compiling this list, I was struggling off if I should include Hallelujah on the list. After asking people online, the consensus was to include it. …
On Halloween, I decided to see a theatre play at the National Arts Centre. The play was King of the Yees, written by American playwright Lauren Yee and the production by A Gateway Theatre (Richmond, BC) production. I took my dad to this to since I had an extra ticket and he read about the …
Kosisochukwu Nnebe’s Somatic Satiation is being shown at Studio Sixty Six. Her works use mix media and embrace the concept of using repetition to temporarily lose meaning as found in the experience of semantic satiation. More info go on their site. The exhibition runs until October 14, 2017.
A few weeks back, I was asked to try out 2017 Ford‘s Focus car with their Ford Sync Technology. Sadly I didn’t have a license to drive and I asked Jared to do the test driving and applaud him for it. Here is what had to write about. When Ford contacted Ming about putting together …