Articles by Daniel Sylvester

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  Courtney Barnett

  RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 11

  PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2018

  About 24 hours after the Foo Fighters brought their slickly orchestrated rock'n'roll revue to Ottawa, it took an unassuming 30-year-old fro...

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  M. Ward

  RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 10

  PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2018

  It seemed like a questionable idea for the organizers of Ottawa's Bluesfest to set up ten rows of folding chairs in front of the tented Cla...

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  Lotic

  Power

  PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2018

  On their last EP, Agitations, Lotic moved away from the rhythmic, playful beats that defined the producer's early work, delving into fractu...

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  Cowboy Junkies

  All That Reckoning

  PUBLISHED Jul 9, 2018

  At the beginning of the decade, Cowboy Junkies released four LPs in just over a year-and-a-half by recording sessions quickly and live-off-...

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  The War on Drugs

  RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 6

  PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2018

  In 2014, while sharing a timeslot at the Ottawa Folk Festival with the War on Drugs, Mark Kozelek unceremoniously referred to the band's so...

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  Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets

  RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 5

  PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2018

  As Bryan Adams brought hordes of Coors Light-gripping Canucks to the main stage to close off night one of Ottawa's sprawling ten-day Bluesf...

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  Soulwax

  Essential

  PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2018

  After returning in 2017 with their first LP in 12 years — the well-received From Deewee — Soulwax were invited by the BBC to record a volum...

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  Medline

  Solstice

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2018

  Early last decade saw a resurgence of interest in underground '70s funk, as tastemakers like Keb Darge and labels like Strut released compi...