Articles by Daniel Sylvester

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  Steve Earle and the Dukes

  CityFolk Festival, Ottawa ON, September 12

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2018

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

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  Orbital

  Monsters Exist

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2018

  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."...

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  Ital Tek

  Bodied

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2018

  Since Alan Myson (aka Ital Tek) released his debut LP, Cyclical, a decade ago, he's gone on to focus on a number of modern genres, like dub...

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  Spiral Deluxe

  Voodoo Magic

  PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2018

  The story of Spiral Deluxe is one of paradoxes: they are a jazz supergroup without a traditional jazz musician. Their sound is crafted by e...

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  Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood

  With Animals

  PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2018

  Besides being one of the only grunge frontmen still ticking, Mark Lanegan has never rested on his legacy with the Screaming Trees. After th...

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  Bruce Haack

  Preservation Tapes

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2018

  Known by a select few as one of Canada's most intriguing cult artists, Bruce Haack always strived for mainstream acceptance. In the '50s an...

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  Steve Hauschildt

  Dissolvi

  PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2018

  Although Steve Hauschildt's describes Dissolvi as a "sublimation from an ontological perspective," it's simpler to cut the mumbo jumbo and...

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  Noname

  RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 12

  PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2018

  From the moment she stepped onto the Bluesfest main stage for her 6 p.m. set, Noname seemed bewildered and surprised that anyone actually k...