Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Zolas are touring in the wake of the release of their latest EP, Wino Oracle, which came out Oct. 2. The four songs on the EP are a bit of a departure from the rhythmic experimental rock style of their first two studio albums. With its fast tempos and dance-friendly beats, Wino Oracle is much more lively and upbeat than their older music.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe album never slows down from start to finish, and it’s perfect to dance along to or pick you up if you’re feeling down. Every song can make you laugh. It does everything a peppy pop song should do, just presented in a radically different way, and across an entire album instead of one four-minute track.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe album is a joy to listen to, as the production varies in style but also remains true to the core theme of the album. The content of the record is where it’s worth truly lies. It’s comparable to a reformation of the J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye, focusing on the alienation and the painful phoniness of the adult world. It is an exploration of those raised in the Ronald Reagan Era, tackling their skewed identity and fragmented moral compass.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough Green is best recognized for progressions in acoustic power chords, especially on his 2008 album Bring Me Your Love. However his newest work shows a distinct change of pace in sound. Where there was once a soft linear flow of songs, there is now a forte that speaks to the audience in a transformed, sharp, bluesy thundering of songs, but is still directed by lofty introspection from beginning to end.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTime freezes in the music world whenever there is a clash of titans. In the hierarchy of today’s biggest hip-hop superstars, Drake and Future are monoliths. Two of a genre’s biggest artists coming together to release a collaborative project is not something you see every day. What a Time to Be Alive is a mixtape …
Reading Time: 3 minutesUnlike its sister festival RBC Ottawa Bluesfest, which gets less and less bluesy every year, CityFolk was filled with folk acts big and small.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCityFolk, formerly known as Ottawa Folk Festival, is an annual festival that began 21 years ago by Max Wallace, a former station manager of Carleton University’s CKCU-FM radio station, Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Chris White, and a community of volunteers. The festival has grown from its humble roots on Ottawa’s Victoria Island to its new home at Lansdowne Park, next to TD Place.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSmith Romero says she is looking forward to providing students with only high quality shows. Upcoming events at the restaurant feature artists from Ottawa, the Yukon, Los Angeles, Toronto, and San Francisco.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYours, Dreamily, streams a distorted flow of sound that can feel melancholy and fleeting at times, but captures moments of revelation. With an assortment of sounds throughout the album, grimy guitar solos and the familiar harsh tones of the Black Keys can be heard, especially in “The Arc”.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlmost 30 minutes after the scheduled start time, a platform of lights lowered towards the Bell stage at Ottawa’s 2015 RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest and Kanye West finally walked out. The antsy crowd instantly forgave West’s tardiness as the familiar beats of his 2007 hit “Stronger” pounded out of the speakers.
Reading Time: 2 minutes#TIDALforALL isn’t hitting the waves it wants to.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA new theme hits Chamberfest which connects to a younger crowd.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA preview of the 2015 RBC Ottawa Bluesfest.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne U of O’s life changed drastically all due to the Arkells.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne student’s involvement with the Ottawa chapter of the Heart of the City program helping at-risk children learn to play piano.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA look back at the 2015 Juno Awards hosted in Hamilton, Ont.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUnity for Action’s Behind Those Eyes brilliantly addressed issues while entertaining the crowd.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe queen of R&B Jully Black stops by Ottawa for a night of fun while raising money for an important cause.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow Drake’s new mixtape represents a shifting trend in the corporate side of the music industry and an effort to raise record sales.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMegaphono, the first of it’s kind, inaugural festival hit Ottawa for an interesting concept for fans and musicians alike.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether you know it or not, you’ve probably seen Amanda Lowe.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLong time friends and coworkers share what it’s like being women in the Ottawa music scene.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen asked how he could possibly top the controversy associated with the “Animals” music video, Levine said he already has something in the works.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen she isn’t inspiring tomorrow’s generation of young environmental lawyers to work in one of the most challenging fields of Canadian law, Professor Lynda Collins playing her music all across the continent.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI don’t dislike Christmas, but this genre of music always makes me rethink my opinion of the holiday season. It is the worst kind of music: it’s unoriginal, it’s ridiculously commercialized, and it’s sometimes utterly horrifying.
