Category Archives: Music News

Who doesn’t love a Road Trip? This fall, two of Canada’s favourite guitar-slingers – Dean Brody and Paul Brandt will hit the road. With stops in 22 cities across the country, there’s no question that this is the first co-headlining tour you don’t want to miss!

Jason McCoy (submitted photo)

The Country Music Association of Ontario (CMAO) is pleased to announce the much-anticipated list of nominees for its 3rd Annual CMAO Awards Show. This year’s star-studded event will once again be hosted by Jason McCoy of the Road Hammers, and will be held Monday, May 25, 2015, at the Flato Markham Theatre.

So the fine folks down at the Burlington Sound of Music Festival announced yesterday afternoon that they have decided to run a ticketed event that will help support the FREE Annual Event.   So looks like Weezer, Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven and Current Swell are set to take the stage on June 13.  Here are the official details.

Sound of Music Festival – PAID TICKET EVENT

Weezer, Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven & Current Swell

Saturday June 13 2015

ALL AGES SHOW

Many of our readers listen to country music radio, it’s undeniably one of the hottest genres of music today.  Country music attracts listeners through songs with memorable lyrics that can often be related to.   What many listeners may not realize is that often the artist singing the song is not the person who penned the lyrics.

Fredericton Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival

The Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival has signed five new international acts to add to its 25th anniversary festival line up.  All of the groups, some of the most in demand new artists on the international festival circuit, will make their Harvest début at the 2015 edition of the Festival this September 15-20.

Chad Brownlee – Photo by Trish Cassling for Sound Check Entertainment

To say that 2015 has started with a bang is a major understatement.  It took the independent Sound Check over a year to hit 100,000 readers and we hit 200,000 in just the first month and a half of 2015.

Our top stories of Q1 2015 included breaking the news of Luke Bryan in Ottawa and the 2015 Ottawa Bluesfest line-up as well as our coast to coast coverage of Dallas Smith’s Tippin’ Point Tour and Chad Brownlee’s When the Lights Go Down tour not to mention our unprecedented concert coverage from New Country 94’s welcome to Ottawa party with Dallas Smith to Florida Georgia Line and ZZ Top in Kingston. All of this and only in the first 3 months of 2015.

Here’s a look at what’s ahead from April to June 2015

You can almost hear the collective sigh of Ottawa Bluesfest fans when the day after the lineup is announced veteran rockers Van Halen announce a major North American tour, no dates in Ottawa as of yet (sorry Bluesfest fans the band is on the US west coast for the first two weeks of July so no chance of them being a late addition).

Our friends over at Casinorama just put out thier JUNE concert listing and for the Country fans they got a couple shows you won’t want to miss…

George Thorogood & The Destroyers with Brian Setzer‘s Rockabilly Riot (June 4)

Toto Cutugno (June 7)

Kip Moore (June 12)

Mystic India: The World Tour (June 13)

Boyz II Men (June 19)

Montgomery Gentry (June 26)

Whitesnake/David Coverdale (July 2)

Ticket ONSALE Info…

Looks like the Zac Brown Band will be busy this summer.

It was a good morning for America, and Canada, as Shania Twain announced her first major tour in over a decade.