Wednesday, April 20th, Ritual Nightclub will be hit with a wave of pop punk when Citizen, Turnover, Sorority Noise, and Milk Teeth come to Ottawa. Citizen, a rock band from the Michigan and Ohio areas, have a sound heavily influenced by pop punk and emo music, fitting perfectly into the Run for Cover Records realm […]
On Saturday, April 9th, I approached the Bronson center to see the Dandy Warhols just before 8pm, where there were already tons of people spread out around the premises, smoking and chatting in their separate groups. It was a funny sight, all those people, many in their late 30’s or 40’s, loitering with their cigarettes […]
On Friday night, I went to Ritual Nightclub to check out No Fly List, the Nils, and Lowest of the Low. It was my first time going to Ritual, so I had no idea what to expect as far as atmosphere, or even general layout, but it turned out to be pretty awesome. I don’t […]
The final throes of the winter season are always the worst. The weather’s temperamental indecision between February and May taunts us with stretches of sunny days, only to sucker-punch us in the gut a week later with snow and cold. With a primary trait of pop-punk/garage bands being a celebration of sunny summer days backed […]
This Friday, April 8th, Canadian 90’s legends the Lowest of the Low will be taking the stage at Ritual with contemporaries, the Nils. In 1991, Toronto-based the Lowest of the Low released the alt-rock album Shakespeare My Butt, which went on to be included in the top-ten of Chart’s “Best Canadian Albums of All Time” […]
Friday, April 15th, Hervana stop by House of Targ to play Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York in full, supported by Ottawa’s Trees of North America and Sleepy & the Noise. The Toronto-based, all-female quartet of Skirt Cobain, Miss Novoselic, Dave Grrrl and Pap Smear have been active for the last 2 years, playing […]
On Saturday, April 9th, the Dandy Warhols will take the stage at Bronson Centre in support of their latest album, Distortland. The Dandy Warhols are an eclectic and interesting band from Portland, Oregan, forming in 1994 and releasing their major label debut in ’97. Things began to take off for them in the early 2000’s […]
“You ready to go Gaga?” Ottawa Gaga Compilation: Volume 1 opens with the voice of The Beach Blankets’ singer posing this question to his band and, seemingly, you the listener, before they break out into an energetic spasm of garage-rock goodness. The constant presence of cheering and hooting behind the track make it the perfect […]
To anyone who’s stepped into House of Targ, even just once, it takes about a fraction of a second to conjure up an accurate image and sense of what the atmosphere might be like at a show there on any given night. When you descend into the dimly lit basement, you are immediately hit with […]
David Haddad talks with The Motorleague frontman in advance of their House of Targ show Having grown up and lived in Moncton, New Brunswick my whole life up until 2014, I spent a lot of my teen years going to all-ages shows there. They happened pretty frequently and were vital in the developmental years […]