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New Music: Marvest Edition

With the new addition of Marvest to this year’s CityFolk festival, nine acts have been given the opportunity to release

Closed Doors: The Unsolved Mystery of Mugshots

Earlier this summer, the Ottawa music community was hit with some very disappointing news. Word spread quickly that one of

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New Video: ‘Style’ by Dear Blackwolf

Toronto/Ottawa band Dear Blackwolf have released a new video for “Style,” the first single off their upcoming LP Rumble Music due

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Premiere: Lost To The River – Oh Brother, the Line

Sometimes you need to destroy something to create something fresh and new. That’s the mentality that the new Ottawa band

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Arboretum Festival – Day 4: Austra, Weights & Measures, Fet.Nat, & Saxyndrum

Since its inception in 2012, Arboretum Festival has increasingly become a seminal part of Ottawa’s cultural identity. Its organizers –

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Marvest: Strengthening Ottawa music through partnerships

CityFolk is expanding its programming this year to include more local artists from the Ottawa/Gatineau region. Musical Harvest  – dubbed

Arboretum Festival – Day 3: Tweens, New Swears, Milk Lines, The Sadies and Nightshades

Tweens, New Swears, Milk Lines, The Sadies, and Nightshades rocked Albert Island Friday, the third night of Arboretum Festival 2015. It

Arboretum Festival Day 1: The Queer Songbook Orchestra and Melody McKiver at St. Alban’s Church

The Queer Songbook Orchestra made the extreme heat in St. Alban’s Church very bearable as they delivered a powerful performance

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New Video: Kalle Mattson – Avalanche

Ottawa-based singer-songwriter has released a creative new video for the title track “Avalanche” off of his upcoming EP, the follow-up to

Album Premiere: Mystic by Owen Davies

Ottawa Showbox is pumped to present the full-length premiere of the first album to grace So Sorry Records: Mystic by Owen