Articles by Matthew Ritchie

Panda Bear

Buoys

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2019

Animal Collective have rarely looked back while making music, together or separately, Since the band began their mainstream-ish ascent in t...

Ryley Walker Covered an Entire Unreleased Dave Matthews Band Album and It's No Joke

PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2018

For the uninitiated, you'd be forgiven for thinking Ryley Walker was trolling when he announced, back in late September, a full covers albu...

Ryley Walker

The Lillywhite Sessions

PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2018

According to a theory first made popular on the internet by since-suspended Twitter user @Swank0cean, the number one song on your 14th birt...

Jack White

TD Place, Ottawa ON, November 9

PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2018

For a long time (perhaps fairly), Jack White was considered a rock'n'roll purist: a Luddite who plays and records on archaic pieces of equi...

Sturgill Simpson

RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 13

PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2018

Sturgill Simpson is a lot of things to many people: a modern day country outlaw, a hard-hitting soul artist, a cosmic warrior, a father....

Dave Matthews Band

RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 11

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2018

The Dave Matthews Band are at a strange point in their career and the zeitgeist as a whole.   On one hand, their recent album — Come Tomorr...

Greta Van Fleet

RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 10

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2018

On the surface, Greta Van Fleet — the Michigan-bred, four-piece rock band — look like the kind of thing David Fricke dreams about.   They a...

Foo Fighters

RBC Bluesfest, Ottawa ON, July 10

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2018

In the lead-up to the release of the Foo Fighters' ninth studio album, last year's ambitious and ostentatious magnum rock opus Concrete and...