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Ottawa bands showcasing at NXNE 2014

It’s that time of year again. I’ll be packing up shop  once again and heading down to NXNE in Toronto this

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Ottawa Explosion Weekend Day 4 – Boyhood, Odonis Odonis & METZ @ Ritual

And the good times just kept on rolling. As the day that included unreal sets from New Swears, TV Freaks,

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Ottawa Explosion Weekend Day 4 – New Swears, TV Freaks, Steve Adamyk Bank + more

You’d think that after three days of non-stop live music, partying, moshing, and general disregard for our overall health, the

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Robots! Everywhere!! + BBQ Cuisine @ Gabba Hey, June 8th (Ottawa’s underground hipster music hot spot that almost no one knows about)

By Matthew Stella Phil (aka Robots! Everywhere!!) sent me a text this afternoon asking if I wanted to go to

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New Music: G.Grand – Grand Designs (prod. Jeepz)

One of Ottawa’s most dynamic duos is at it again. Local MC Grantly Franklin a.k.a. G. Grand has put out

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Contest: Win a Jeremy Fisher prize pack

Jeremy Fisher released his new album The Lemon Squeeze today, and we’re giving away some free swag! This Canadian indie music

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Throwback Thursday: My one memorable experience at Barrymores

  Ottawa Showbox isn’t just a place to find out what’s going on in Ottawa’s music community. It’s also about

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Interview: From Utrecht to Canada, Holland’s MTT have just about everything we want them to have.

It’s always really cool when European bands fly over the ocean and bring their music with them. One band that

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Interview: Dan of Amos the Transparent talks about taking a different approach to their new album

It has been a few years now since Ottawa’s Amos the Transparent released their last album Goodnight My Dear, I’m