We were lucky enough to meet Matt Lang last summer on his home turf at the Festival Country de Lotbinière. Little did we know then that he had only just started to learn English. At the time he was just a name to us but when we passed each other, he was on his way to the stage and I was on my way to interview Brett Kissel, he stopped introduced himself and took the time to say hello. This single action spoke volumes to me about his character. Brett and I interrupted our chat to listen to parts of Matt’s set and, I think, we both knew that there was something special on the stage. Fast forward almost a year later and two other industry friends of ours, Tebey and Jill Snell, also took notice of Matt’s talent and quickly made him the first artist signing to their new label.
Catching up with SiriusXM Top of the Country Finalist – Kristin Carter
A choir girl turned country troubadour, Kristin Carter’s high-energy stage presence and dynamic vocals can move, excite, and empower an audience at any given moment.
Catching up with SiriusXM Top of The Country Finalist – Don Amero
Don Amero is an engaging storyteller, songwriter and performer who has been touring and speaking all across Canada for over 10 years. With 5 albums to his name that have already garnered eleven national and international awards, including a JUNO nomination in 2013 and two more in 2016.
Catching up with SiriusXM Top of the Country Finalist – Kelsi Mayne
Kelsi Mayne should be no stranger to our readers, we featured Kelsi several years ago as she was vying for the Boots and Hearts Emerging Artist of the year. Many of you may recognize her as the ‘Cherry Bomb’ in the River Town Saints hit video for the single of the same name and Eric Ethridge fans may recognize Kelsi from his cover of Luke Bryan and Karen Fairchild’s “Home Alone Tonight”.
Ottawa Comiccon and Clocktower Brew Pub Create the Ultimate Beer Lovers Team-up!
For fans of epic superhero awesome sauce, when it comes to the big screen, Endgame is a new beginning of possibilities. There’s a lot of choice and seemingly endless directions. Within the source material, that thrilling vastness of comic book lore, there have been some epic team-ups. The Flash and Green Lantern! Deadpool and Spider-man! Ghost Rider and…Howard the Duck?
Ok, so they haven’t all been the sauce of awesomeness but O-town’s own geektastic conjoining of mighty entities is, bub!
L7 Return with Scatter the Rats and new tour
In the late 80s, L7 crashed their way into the male-dominated punk rock scene and unleashed a fury that resonated with a lot of frustrated youth especially young girls. They released 6 albums and toured worldwide till 2001. Since reuniting in 2014, L7 has been on the road, writing new music and released a documentary in 2017 – L7: Pretend We’re Dead.
Festival Country Lotbinière Preview – Donny Cowboy (aka Granger Smith)
Granger Smith released his latest video, rather Donny Cowboy’s latest video earlier this week. There seems to be some confusion surrounding where Granger…errr Donny has parked but one thing is clear this June Donny, Earl and, of course, Granger will be parked somewhere in the vicinity of Festival Country de Lotbinière in St. Agapit.
Festival Country Lotbinière Preview – Justine Blanchet
The 2019 edition Festival Country Lotbinière is a little over a month away but we wanted to shine a light on a few of the acts on the bill that you may not know as well as some of the others.
Spectrasonic Brings Hits and Explosions for May
Jon Spencer and the HITmakers, a Pale Horse Named Death and Joe Jackson are just a taste of what’s happening this month at Spectrasonic.
Mr. Blue’s Explosion Jon Spencer comes to town with his HITmakers May31st at the 27 Club.
A Pale Horse Named Death hits The Brass Monkey May 8th .
Joe Jackson’s – Four Decade Tour stops in at the Meridian Theatres at Centrepointe May 10th
Tickets to all the shows can be purchased at https://www.spectrasonic.com/
Fri 05/03 Townes with Valois, Hopper @ The 27Club
Sat 05/04 Mountain Goats with Shana Cleveland @ Bronson Centre
Tues 05/07 Alyssa Edwards: Dancing Queen – The live Show @ Bronson Centre
Wed 05/08 A Pale Horse Named Death @ Brass Monkey
Fri 05/10 Joe Jackson – Four Decade Tour Meridian Theatres at Centrepointe
Sat 05/11 Kasador @ Live on Elgin
Wed 05/15 Secrets, Awaken I Am, Southpaw, Horcrux @ The 27 Club
Thurs 05/16 Nightbeats @ The 27 Club
Sat 05/18 Max, Tongue Helmet, Jesse Dangerously @ House of Targ
Sat 05/18 Homesick : Emo Night Ottawa – TBS Edition @ The 27 Club
Wed 05/22 Bears Den, Vera Sola @ The 27 Club
Fri 05/24 Blink-281 @ Babylon
Fri 05/24 Its Gonna Be May: Boy Band Dance Party @ The 27 Club
Sat 05/25 Nicole Dollanganger @ Babylon
Fri 05/31 Jon Spencer & the HITmakers @ The 27 Club
Tim Baker | Forever Overhead Tour arrives at Bronson Centre
Frontman for Hey Rosetta! Tim Baker made a tour stop at Bronson Centre in support of his Solo LP, Forever Overhead delivering a remarkable performance.
