The Bud Light Escapade Music Festival took over Landsdowne Park in Ottawa last weekend and brought Ottawa a much needed dose of EDM with a dash of hip hop thrown in for good measure.
The New Constellations Tour Wows Ottawa
It was a packed house on Friday night at Ottawa’s Bronson Centre, and as the snow fell, a fire burning inside the performance hall.
Wiz Khalifa stole the show on Day 2 of Rock the Park
Rock the Park Day 2 played host to some of Rap and Hip Hop’s newest artists that have busted onto the scene with vengeance with Fetty Wap and Headliner Wiz Khalifa. The crowd that packed into Harris Park in London Ontario were ready to party from start to finish and gave a warm welcome to London’s own Casper The Ghost who kicked off the days events and was proudly wearing his London gear. DJ Mustard kept the party going well into the evening, making way for Fetty Wap and Wiz Khalifa.
Instruments of Change: An Editorial About Why You Can Always Sit With Me And Why I Will Always Sing For You
The times may be a’ changing, but not quite fast enough.
Before Green Day won Grammies for singing of an American idiot, and Rage Against the Machine urged us to take the power back, The Clash wrote intricate songs about isolation, poverty, utilitarianism, and cultural upheaval. Before Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize for Literature, his songs were recited and replayed over and over at picket lines across the United States when citizens took to the streets to protest the Vietnam War. Before Dr. Dre was selling his headphones to Apple and being treated like hip hop’s elder statesman and Ice Cube was making movies about barbershops and Jump Street, the “Niggaz With Attitude” were challenging police corruption and slapping us unapologetic-ally with a lyrical portrait of their realities in South Central, Los Angeles.
