What do you get when you spend ten days at Vancouver’ Warehouse Studio with talent like Alan Doyle? Well, when you ask him, he will tell you all about his appropriately named album A Week at the Warehouse. With an old school way of making this record, he had his whole band, (affectionately named “the Beautiful, Beautiful Band”), set up within the studio to do full recordings together. This created a fun environment for the musicians to record in, and an interesting space for the album to grow from.

The Crazy Horse in Kanata converted their parking lot to a stage where Kira Isabella took over Friday night, and River Town Saints stormed in Saturday. Both put on one hell of a show!

Rain, rain, go away…

Performance in the Park –
Photo by Wornleathermedia

So we asked all our Photographers to take am minute and submit what they felt was there best 15 shots and we would scale it down to their top 10 from there…  We are so thankful for these folks.   They make our pages come alive.     What is YOUR favourite shot of 2015… Share it over on our Facebook Page

Jason Blaine Celebrity Charity Golf Classic

When you are a celebrity and want to give back to your community there’s no better way than to gather up a few close friends and throw a party…and then invite the community to attend.  Over the last two days, Jason Blaine did just that in Pembroke for the Second Annual Celebrity Charity Golf Classic and we were thrilled to have been part of it.

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

AC/DC Grammys 2015 – photo courtesy of Billboard

Last night’s Grammy awards were living proof that music from yesterday is alive and well and much of the new music from today is well, on life support.

Ed Sheeran

We’ve just learned that Ed Sheeran will be coming to Ontario in June.  Toronto, London and Ottawa will all get a chance to see this outstanding talent.