Though Brian Wilson brought his "Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour" to Ottawa in 2016 , the 76-year-old musician decided to return to t...

Art Brut may not be musical savants, but they are undeniably a clever bunch. On the band's fifth LP, Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out!, the L...

Although Moritz Simon Geist isn't the first artist to write music for robots to perform (see Squarepusher's 2014 EP Music for Robots), the D...

On Powerhouse, the fourth LP (and first in four years) from Jam Rostron (aka Planningtorock), the UK musician delivers an undeniably emotion...

Visiting the nation's capital for the third time in the past five years, the Dodos had to contend with chilly rains and a general Monday nig...

Although much has been made about Lindsey Buckingham's dismissal from Fleetwood Mac earlier this year, the band has been a revolving door si...

Considering both musicians have followed the same noisy career trajectory over the past 20 years, it's surprising that it took Chris Corsano...

A full year since Dan Bejar released his 11th studio album under his Destroyer moniker — the underrated ken — the Vancouver musician abandon...

In case you're unclear on what exactly influenced the latest LP from Sebastian Gainsborough (aka Vessel), the first 20 seconds of Queen of G...

Appearing at the city-owned Shenkman Arts Center, located within a squeaky-clean shopping district in the Ottawa community of Orleans, Cowbo...

In 2016, Calvin Johnson released The Party Is Just Getting Started (under the alias Selector Dub Narcotic), a bonkers dance album that worke...

Fifteen years and seven albums into his career, Matthew Houck (aka Phosphorescent) still sounds like he has something new to say. It's not j...

It's practically canon that Jlin's first two LPs are stone-cold masterpieces. So it's impressive that the Gary, IN musician managed to keep...

Just eight weeks since they wrapped up a nine-month tour for their latest LP, Wild and Reckless, Blitzen Trapper got back on the road to tre...

A full year since the release of her fifth LP, the well-received Okovi, Nika Roza Danilova (aka Zola Jesus) used the tail end of her ambitio...

For the 12 shimmering minutes that kick off Infinite Moment, Axel Willner (aka the Field) moves away from his archetypal snipped-beat loops...

Two years after the Decemberists played a co-headlining slot at Ottawa's Bluesfest, and five years since the band's frontman, Colin Meloy, a...

Although David Byrne gave Ottawa a taste of his wonderfully wacked-out stage show during his 2013 appearance with St. Vincent, absolutely no...

Two years after he visited Ottawa in support of his Guitar Town anniversary tour, Steve Earle returned to the nation's capital to celebrate...

After breaking up "for the final time" in 2014, Orbital played a number of live dates last summer, announcing that they're "back for good."...