Articles by Daniel Sylvester
Odonis Odonis
No Pop
PUBLISHED Oct 16, 2017
On their first three LPs, Odonis Odonis gave fans three distinct varieties of their scuzzed-out, icy noise rock, highlighted by last year's...
The New Pornographers / Born Ruffians
Bronson Centre, Ottawa ON, October 12
PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2017
Despite the fact that they've hit Ottawa recently, Vancouver collective the New Pornographers still succeeded in drawing a large crowd last...
Special Request
Belief System
PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2017
Paul Woolford found prominence in 2013 under the alias Special Request with his critically acclaimed by criminally underheard debut LP, Sou...
Graham Nash
Centrepointe Theatre, Ottawa ON, October 2
PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2017
For the first time since Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's sprawling three-hour performance back in 2006, Graham Nash returned to the nation's...
Kamasi Washington
Harmony of Difference
PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2017
Anyone who's had the distinct pleasure of experiencing Kamasi Washington's 2015 three-hour tour-de-force LP The Epic knows that the L.A. sa...
Juju & Jordash
Sis-Boom-Bah!
PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2017
When Juju & Jordash released their underrated sophomore LP, Techno Primitivism, in 2012, the Netherlands-via-Israeli duo were compared to t...
Tim & Eric
JFL42, Sony Centre, Toronto ON, September 29
PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2017
Headlining the penultimate night of Toronto's ten-day JFL42 Festival, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim brought their "10 Year Anniversary Aw...
Various
Ambient Parks Vol. 3
PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2017
If Berlin-via-Toronto techno musician Adam Marshall's New Kanada label could be looked at as the Canadian version of Kompakt Records, then...