Articles by Jill Krajewski
Carly Rae Jepsen
E•MO•TION: Side B
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2016
Carly Rae Jepsen is the queen of beating the odds — or maybe just our doubts. She's a critically acclaimed nostalgia pop artist free of the...
Rae Spoon
"I Hear Them Calling" (video)
PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2016
Armour, singer-songwriter Rae Spoon's follow-up to the Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2013 album My Prairie Home, is full of personal songs...
Bryan Ferry
LeBreton Flats Park, Ottawa ON, July 17
PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2016
You have chanteur Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music to thank if punk or new wave mean anything to you. Ferry and his bandmates, including Brian En...
Duran Duran
LeBreton Flats Park, Ottawa ON, July 16
PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2016
In Duran Duran's 1985 James Bond movie megahit "A View to a Kill," frontman Simon Le Bon sings pleadingly yet confidently of the chance to...
Steve Adamyk Band
LeBreton Flats Park, Ottawa ON, July 15
PUBLISHED Jul 16, 2016
Steve Adamyk Band saw one of their biggest hometown crowds yet at RBC Bluesfest last night (July 15), with several hundred people of all ag...
Preoccupations
LeBreton Flats Park, Ottawa ON, July 9
PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2016
These things are true: Preoccupations' 2015 debut Viet Cong is a thrilling work of doomsday post-punk, widely lauded and short-listed for t...
An Essential Guide to Nine Inch Nails
PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2016
Nine Inch Nails have been producing unnerving, dynamic industrial music for nearly 30 years now. From their 1994 breakthrough The Downward...
Rae Spoon
Pressed Café, Ottawa ON, February 26
PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2016
The mark of a gifted songwriter is the ability to create the most emotion with the fewest notes. Rae Spoon is a master of restraint, convey...