Articles by Scott Simpson
'Dark Matter' Is a Dimension of the Multiverse That Looks Kinda Like All the Other Ones
Created by Blake Crouch
PUBLISHED May 7, 2024
Multiverses are so hot right now. The idea of a limitless number of parallel dimensions, spinning off from every decision everyone makes...
Nick Schofield Delicately Recreates an Ottawa Architectural Gem on 'Glass Gallery'
PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2021
When the National Gallery of Canada — the building itself, not the institution — was completed in 1988, then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney...
Backxwash Turns Hip-Hop on Its Head with Masterful 'God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It'
PUBLISHED May 28, 2020
Backxwash's emergence as an artist to watch has been as meteoric as it has been prolific. Her string of releases, which includes debut EP F...
Cecile Believe Evolves Beyond Mozart's Sister on 'Made in Heaven'
PUBLISHED May 7, 2020
In a recent interview with Exclaim!, Cecile Believe (a.k.a. Caila Thompson-Hannant, who used to perform as Mozart's Sister) described her n...
Geoffroy / ren
27 Club, Ottawa ON, November 28
PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2019
I could tell the Geoffroy concert at the 27 Club on Thursday night was going to be popular; the 27 Club isn't the largest venue, but judgin...
New Swears / Wine Lips / Remi Royale
Babylon, Ottawa ON, November 22
PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2019
There was a sense of camaraderie that quickly took over the Babylon nightclub as it slowly filled up for New Swears' homecoming in Ottawa,...
Ought
Once More with Feeling...
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
A mere six months after the release of their debut album, More Than Any Other Day, adopted Montreal quintet Ought are ready for a reintrodu...
Duchess Says
House of Targ, Ottawa ON, November 4
PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2016
Anyone who has ever seen Annie-Claude Deschênes and her band of merry men perform knows that she's a force to be reckoned with. With her ev...