Blogging the Bluesfest: Birthday Girls
Sample Song: “Scream my name” written and performed by Birthday Girls Post punk, dream punk, dance punk… the only consensus on the interweb is that the Birthday Girls are some kind of punk. Unless they...
View ArticleBlogging the Bluesfest: MonkeyJunk
Click here to view the embedded video. Ottawa’s MonkeyJunk has been together for four years, and in that short time they’ve managed win twelve Maple Blues Awards, a Blues Music Award in Memphis, a...
View ArticleBlogging the Bluesfest: Brothers Chaffey
Photo courtesy of Brothers Chaffey. Sample song: The Fool Brothers Chaffey have been playing together for more than a decade. They recently worked with Ken Friesen (Tragically Hip/The Jayhawks/The...
View ArticleBlogging the Bluesfest: The Ethics.
Sample song: “Night Train” by The Ethics Last year, Ottawa’s The Ethics were given a spot on the Citizen’s top ten albums of the year for their third album, What I Did For Modern Love. Their most...
View ArticleBlogging the Bluesfest: The Bushpilots
Sample song: “Everything Falls Apart” by The Bushpilots, off their album Swerve. The Bushpilots have been rocking Ottawa since 2002, and for a band that has spent ten years making music, these guys...
View ArticleOn top of their game: Diplo, Beirut and Skrillex
It’s already the last weekend of Bluesfest. Bottle of water in hand, sunscreen all over my body and shades on my face, I headed out to Lebreton Flats yesterday afternoon where I checked out Diplo,...
View ArticleMemories of Bluesfest 2012
At Apt613, we sometimes get nostalgic. Whether it’s reminiscing about the Lynx or missing the sweet, sweet tones of 93.9 Kool FM, we’ve always had a soft spot for the past. And with Bluesfest 2012...
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: Brock Zeman
Brock Zeman is far from being a newbie to the music scene, the roots man from Lanark is on his 9th album in ten years and has been on the touring circuit for the last decade, easily doing a hundred...
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: City Fidelia
People tend to say Ottawa’s hip hop scene is small and tight – I know some of the guys, Flight Distance, Philly Moves, Cashtro Crosby – but then I discover a guy with smooth beats like City Fidelia and...
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: Sarah Jean & The Wild Vines
The official billing is Sarah Jean and The Wild Vines but maybe it should be Sarah, Samantha and The Wild Vines as the band has not one but two female singers – Sarah Jean and Samantha Marie....
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: Camp Radio
Maybe Chris Page should have been born in Halifax, because when I listen to Camp Radio, it makes me think of old the East Coast. Camp Radio’s got that 90s Halifax sound to it. The band, made up of...
View ArticleBluesfest, here we come!
I can’t believe we’re already in the middle of festival season. That means that the biggest festival of them all is knocking at our door: Bluesfest. In spite of last year’s electro success with the...
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: Kelly Sloan
Kelly Sloan‘s a country girl at heart. She was born in the Ottawa Valley and still plays most of her shows there. Proof of this is her series of recent past gigs: Almonte, Perth, Calabogie, Ashton… so...
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: Jordan McIntosh
There’s a bit of a country flavour to this year’s Bluesfest with Dixie Chicks, Zac Brown Band and others. You can clearly see where Jordan McIntosh takes his influence. Heck, by the looks of his photo...
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: Tara Holloway
Imagine this: It’s +35 C outside, all you want to do is cool down and enjoy some music. You might want to head over to the Barney Danson Theatre this Saturday to listen to the sweet sounds of Tara...
View ArticleRemember Camera Obscura? They are playing Bluesfest.
Click here to view the embedded video. I used to love Camera Obscura, but it seems like they fell off the face of the earth a bit in recent years. Desire Lines is their first album in four years and...
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: NDMA
Nilton De Menezes aka NDMA is a name that’s been on my must-watch list for over a year now. It’s definitely not his fault that I haven’t seen him perform in person yet. The man has been everywhere,...
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: The Musettes
These girls are good. While this is their first time playing Bluesfest, The Musettes won the 2010 Galaxie Rising Stars Award and secured a spot playing at the Ottawa Folk Festival that same year. Their...
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: FEVERS
Ever since Passion Is Dead came out, FEVERS has been a bit of an indie music darling in Ottawa. They were of the mind to give their first album for free and are doing the same with the first single off...
View ArticleBlogging Bluesfest 2013: Dynamite Motel
Mindy Amelotte is Dynamite Motel. What’s in a name? Well, if you look hard enough you discover Dynamite Motel is an anamagram for Mindy Amelotte. She is a true DIY-er composing, writing and producing...
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