I love shows with a diversity of artists whose music also meshes to create a superlative event. Last Saturday, Irene’s Pub hosted such a show – the release of the Drought EP by Ottawa IndieRock trio How Far To Mexico who invited local cosmic/psychedelic-rockers The Heavy Medicine Band and Waterloo experimental folk artist, JoJo Worthington […]
A single deep resounding tom-strike introduces Boundaries, the latest composition by The Night Watch, entering it into the annals of Progressive Rock/Metal with an intensity and ferocity that borders the realms of Symphonic Rock by its sheer lyrical imagination and impassioned dramatic scope which pulsates through an ardent spectrum from the perilously grim to the […]
What a great name for a smokin’ album released at a rockin’ show by a wicked band! Say it with me now… Pa · chy · der · mousTrunk · a · del · ic Psychedelic power-trio Trunk put together a mind-blowing show last Saturday that blew the doors off Ottawa’s Live On Elgin. They […]
On Thursday, Pressed cafe and coffehouse inaugurated their extra-special reoccurring event, NOT NORMAL: Experimental Music Night. Hosted by Ottawa independent labels, Bruised Tongue and Low Noise Productions, and featuring strings and electronics artist, Mark Molnar, this night proved to be one of provocative and daunting exploratory listening. Damo Suzuki with Heavy Mental by Bruised Tongue […]
The rare poetic orchids of Smoke Lake, conceived of memory and dream, birthed in solitude and sanctuary, nurtured by bone and breath and blood and soul surrounded by nature and ancestry, are set before us by Kaleigh Watts as gentle dona spiritus naturae to breathe in and …to savour. Having been taken in by Kaleigh’s […]
A part of Ottawa’s music community is those house shows (…sometimes termed ‘basement shows’) that just happen. They are sometimes unplanned or random, popping up at various places, like someone’s livingroom or basement, or a spare space somewhere – but always ‘under the radar’. Local bands and solo artists get together to play in a […]
In 1920, Robert Frost wrote The Road Less Travelled whose last two lines are… I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The truth is that we all, every single one of us, walk a ‘road less travelled’ because every road/path is singular. We are the only ones travelling […]
To put it simply… this is Rock & Roll played the way it should be – rugged, primal, f*kin-loud, headbanging-feedback-raw down&dirty guitar-riffin’ tunes possessed and whipdriven by thick-as-sirloin-steak meaty bass and rumble-the-floorboards Norse ThunderGod drumming. But I ‘wax poetic’ here…