Anne-Marie Brugger

After two years, West Coast indie rockers are heading East on a month-long tour. I’ve spent some time in beautiful Victoria on Vancouver Island, and one thing that has struck me is that it’s like a mini version of Ottawa. And yes, I realize Ottawa isn’t that big a city. But take [...]

ABOVE: Church of Trees and Rough Trade will be at the Bronson Centre on April 27. (PHOTO: Church of Trees by Karen Bisson) High School Confidential, All Touch/No Contact, For Those Who Think Young, Avoid Freud . . . These are monuments in Canada’s rich rock and roll history. Breaking taboos [...]

ABOVE: Carole Pope and Bernard Frazer have teamed up on a new single, World’s a Bitch. Legendary Canadian rock icon teams up with Ottawa artist on a new single about the pandemic We all remember our first concert. For me, it was in the heady summer days of 1979 when I first saw Rough Trade. [...]

FemmeVox organizing committee (Left to right): Hugh Neilson, Tonya Price, Anne-Marie Brugger, Bernard Frazer, Tara Holloway You no longer have to travel to Nashville or Austin to witness creative sparks between songwriters when they deliberately set out to work together. The Great Canadian Theatre [...]

Photo credit: Joe Barker An accomplished multi-instrumentalist and a core member of one of Canada’s most successful bands, Arcade Fire, Richard Reed Parry is stepping into slower burning embers on his upcoming solo album, Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1. The record is an ethereal walk through the [...]

Photo courtesy of The Festival of Small Halls Over the years, Ottawa has built a solid reputation as a music festival city. It’s true – the minute the snow melts as early as April, festival season starts! Let me tell you about a unique festival called, The Festival of Small Halls. It’s [...]

Photo credit: Remi Theriault It’s here! Ottawa’s Jim Bryson is releasing an EP on September 14 via Rae Spoon’s Coax Records / Headless Owl Records. Entitled Tired Of Waiting, it features 6 new songs, all written on the same $100 guitar as he was whiling away time between projects. [...]

Morning panel session (from left to right) Chantal Beaupré, Karine Dion, Sarwar Qureshi, Jason Kim, William Devonish In April 2017, Mayor Jim Watson put out a call to action for the development of a strategy for Ottawa to become a « Music City ». In the year that has followed, [...]

Photo credit: Richard Macfarlane Calgary-based Miesha & The Spanks recently released their new LP, Girl Girls Girls. Guitarist Miesha Louie and drummer Sean Hamilton are a guitar-and-drum duo who perform ferocious driving punk-tinged rock and roll. Their new 10-track LP was produced by Paul [...]

Photos by Anne-Marie Brugger On Saturday morning, the Ottawa Independent Music Business along with the Ottawa Music Industry Coalition presented a seminar on Music Communications featuring Mary Jelley of Warner Music Canada. The music community received expert advice on how to PR their music [...]