Weekend Recap!

A huge thanks to everyone who came out to the Yamantaka//Sonic Titan & Boyhood show on Friday!
The show was really well attended and both bands were amazing! Any one who got a chance to catch the secret White Wires show later on that night was treated to a great performance from them as well as some other performances of various quality happening from a bunch of different local bands ending with 45 minutes of He-ezer, Davey's Weezer cover band.

Saturday was a great time at the Dominion. The Shakey Aches opened and were great! This was my first time seeing them with their 6 piece line-up and it sounded great! Up next were The Polymorphines. I had never seen them before and they put on a really fun show. The crowd was going off for them! The Johnnies finished off the night in fine form ripping through a great set of catchy rock & roll sweetness! Pick up their 7" on Pretty Bad Records immediately!

Checked out the Jay Reatard documentary on Sunday. It was really well done and I highly recommend everyone to go check it out. It's playing tonight and Thursday night at 9 pm. Gives a great inside look into Jay and cuts through some of the myths and bullshit you would hear about him and has some cool interviews with family and friends.

Monday night was as much of a full-on rager as you can have on a Monday night at Babylon! The Dagger Eyes ripped through a dozen songs in twenty or so minutes. Can't wait to hear a record from this trio. The White Wires came up and were really great! No strangers to playing people's kitchen's, basements or any other random show thrown their way this was their first bar show since last year's Ottawa Explosion. They played a great set which included a few new songs as well as some old favorites. If you missed this show, you won't be seeing them for a while but they will have a new lp coming out this summer on Dirtnap Records to tide you over.

Here's a video of them playing Capital Rehearsal Studios on Friday that was filmed by Luca F.

Ottawa Today- Episode #1

Here is the first episode of Ottawa Today. This episode plays a bunch of bands who are playing in the next couple of weeks such as Yamantaka // Sonic Titan & Boyhood on February 3rd, The Johnnies 7" release party on the 4th and JEFF the Brotherhood & The White Wires on the 6th. We also mention the screening of the Jay Reatard documentary Better Than Something.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN or right-click and save it.

You can win a pair of tickets to see Better Than Something by emailing us with the name of the Jay Reatard song played in this episode and let us know which screening you would like to go to.



The movie is playing at the Mayfair Theatre on Sunday Feb 5 at 8:45 pm and Wednesday and Thursday Feb 8th and 9th at 9 pm.

Ottawa Explosion Weekend 2012!

OTTAWA EXPLOSION WEEKEND is happening again! OTTAWA EXPLOSION WEEKEND 2012 will taking place JUNE 13th to 17th. Last year, 40+ bands and 1 stand-up comedian performed in 3 days. There were some amazing sets from local favorites as well as bands from Montreal, Sudbury,Moncton and Halifax and even as far as Nashville and Austin play at various venues including bars, record stores, basements and even a laundromat. This year is going to be even crazier! Book the days off work now. Thank us later. Here are some of the bands coming from out of town... Dog Day (Halifax, NS) http://fundog.bandcamp.com/ The Famines (Edmonton, AB/Montreal, QC) http://thefamines.ca/ Hollywood (Baltimore, MD) http://hollywoodbaltimore.tumblr.com/ Iron Chic (Long Island, NY) http://www.ironchic.net Lipstick Homicide (Iowa City, Ia) http://lipstickhomicide.bandcamp.com/ Low Culture (Las Cruces, NM) http://dirtcultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/low-culture-demo The Men (Brooklyn, NY) http://wearethemen.blogspot.com/ Metz (Toronto, ON) http://metz.bandcamp.com/ Needles//Pins (Vancouver, BC) http://needlesxpins.tumblr.com/ Night Birds (New Jersey/New York City) http://nightbirds.oknoway.com/ Statues (Sudbury, ON) http://mindyourkeepers.wordpress.com/ Strange Attractor (Sudbury, ON) http://www.myspace.com/onestrangeattractor Expect a lot more to be announced later including all of the amazing bands who are from our fine city OTTAWA EXPLOSION WEEKEND 2012! JUNE 13TH TO 17TH! Web: http://www.ottawaexplosion.com/ Email: ottawaexplosion@gmail.com Twitter: @ottawaexplosion #OXW

Ottawa Today - Episode #0!

Here's episode #0 of Ottawa Today.

 
This episode focuses on bands who came to Ottawa in 2011 such as Bad Sports, Barreracudas, Dog Day, The Nymphets, etc.

Future episodes will have interviews, guest dj's and tons of local bands!

Enjoy!

Hosehead Records

Hosehead Records out of Southern Ontario has been putting out tapes by a bunch of great bands like Red Dons, Sonic Avenues and The Midwest Beat.

They've recently released a couple of tapes for bands out of Ottawa. They've just released the cassette version of THE WHITE WIRES second lp originally out on Dirtnap as well as a split from Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs with Ottawa's own THE SHAKEY ACHES.

You can pick them both up along with this awesome White Wires rip-off t-shirt here!

Steve Adamyk Band "Speed It Up" Live!

Here's a video of STEVE ADAMYK BAND playing "Speed It Up" live at Death House in Montreal on December 15th 2011.



This was the Montreal release show for the "Forever Won't Wait" LP out on Dirtnap Records.

 Pick it up at a fine record store near you!

Tonight!

Friday January 20th 2012

Bruised Knees
(ex-Creeping Nobodies, Toronto)
http://bruisedknees.bandcamp.com/
http://www.myspace.com/abruisedknee

Yet another face-melting insertion within the Scotch Tapes and Young Guv lathe series. Two slabs of soylent plastic were necessary to capture the wikked vibrations emerging from Toronto’s Bruised Knees. Eerie, synthetic mellowtones are sandwiched between cultic clamor and shattering shimmer, spinning psychedelic sinusoids around our sonic horizon. The Huckleberry influence runs deep within the wincing metal and triplic drummery; thud, thud, thud, thud, burn burn burn burn. What else lay dorment in Guv’s lair? Grip before the patina groweth.
Aaron Levin - WEIRDCANADA
http://weirdcanada.com/2011/03/new-canadiana-bruised-knees-badwater-holy-sees-horror/

Karaoke
(ex-Creeping Nobodies, Toronto)
http://www.myspace.com/okkaraokeok
http://okkaraokeok.bandcamp.com/

Karaoke do not play Karaoke. They probably wouldn't if you asked. Living and rehearsing in possibly half-haunted buildings has taught them the value of 'living in the now'. Loop-heavy at times, composed of various density, songs hurtle or halt at will, poltergeist-like, or, perhaps, trance-enducing. Karaoke wish to visit you. They will love your basements as much as your colliseums. Invitations to the dance are rarely turned down, though, the dance may be spastic, and on their own terms. All this and more is what Karaoke promise. They put it forth, before you. It is yours to behold. Take it with you, let it possess you, as it might... Karaoke is two. Karaoke is many. Karaoke is a force that they, themselves, can't comprehend. Can you

Caymans (Flourescent Friends, Thames, Clinton Machine)
http://soundcloud.com/fluorescentfriends/sets/caymans-demo-reel/

Future heavyweights, Ottawa's own Joni Sadler and Blake Hargreaves form into a dual pillar of magic sounds to take your mind out of this universe. Know them before the rest of the world.

Raw Sugar
AA / 8PM / $6

poster by
Michael Deforge
www.kingtrash.com