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Camp Radio at Irene’s

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on Friday, January 6, 2012
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Saturday January 28th @ Irene’s Pub
9PM
$10

Camp Radio
http://campradio.bandcamp.com/

Ottawa’s own Camp Radio are back in town to tear down Irene’s with their power pop fuzz.

Here are a few recent reviews of the newest album out on Kelp Records/Saved by Vinyl.
“On Campista Socialista, Camp Radio has taken the best parts of the power pop genre and mastered them: the jangle-fuzz guitar, the catchy melodies and sad-bastard lyrics, the beat that makes your suede Pumas bounce. They’ve layered them masterfully, in the proper proportions and with just the right amount of careless ease. It fizzes, it hops, and it sticks in your head: it’s rock and roll candy at its finest.”
Sound on The Sound, Seattle WA

“Sincere, straight-forward, hook-laden tunes delivered by Ottawa inide-rock survivor Chris Page, drummer Scott Terry and bassist Dave Draves, Camp Radio’s solid, sophomore full-lengther makes anything larger than a power trio seem totally unnecessary by comparison. Page’s consistent knack for coaxing original, yet timeless sounding riffs out of his guitar is uncanny…”
Thick Specs Best of 2011

“…there’s not a lame song in the pack. Why Camp Radio aren’t spoken in the same breath as Sloan when it comes to great Canadian rock bands, I don’t know.”
Sylus, Winnipeg

Great Aunt Ida
http://www.greatauntida.ca/

Great Aunt Ida’s third album has been a long time coming. In the five years since pianist and singer Ida Nilsen released her 2006 LP How They Fly, she has turned her life upside-down, moving from Vancouver to Toronto and adjusting to new homes, jobs, and marriage. Life didn’t so much get in the way as it was invited in, and recording and touring plans were put on hold.

Nuclearize Me marks Nilsen’s return to the music world, and its ten songs are a confessional response to the many changes in the songwriter’s life. The lyrics of opening track “Your Window” read like a glimpse into a private diary, as Nilsen’s character addresses a lover and reflects on the faces passed on solitary city walks. This folk-tinged, pedal steel-assisted ballad sets a gorgeously intimate tone, and the songs that follow don’t disappoint: the hard-hitting “New Information” pairs angular piano riffs and jagged electric guitars with the singer’s delicate vocals, while the fluttering melodies of “Romance” subtly evoke the lovestruck innocence of 1950s pop.

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Wax Mannequin and B.A. Johnston at Irene’s

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Francois
on Thursday, November 10, 2011
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Saturday, Nov. 26
Ottawa
Irene’s Pub
w/ BA JOHNSTON
885 Bank St.
9pm

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GOOD2GO and The Jeers at Irene’s

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Francois
on Friday, September 16, 2011
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GOOD2GO will be playing at Irene’s Pub (885 Bank St.) on Saturday, Sept 24th with The Jeers opening. Doors at 9pm $10.

http://www.good2gomusic.com/

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The Glorious Moonrockets at Clocktower

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Francois
on Friday, September 16, 2011
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The Glorious Moonrockets will appear again at the Clocktower on Friday October 7th along with Wise Young and King (http://www.myspace.com/wiseyoungandking) and  from Oshawa, The Bonedevil, (http://www.myspace.com/thebonedevil). The show starts at 9pm and only $5 to get in.
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Toronto’s Little Foot Long Foot grow in both numbers and sound

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apartment613
on Friday, September 9, 2011
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Image courtesy Little Foot Long Foot

Post by Robin Levinson. You can catch Little Foot Long Foot this Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Clocktower Pub on Bank Street

Little Foot Long Foot may have gotten their start as a tiny two-piece blues-rock outfit, but they’re growing their sound, and their numbers, with the addition of a new band member, Caitlin Dacey (organ/vocals).  The Toronto group’s aggressive brand of blues-rock is powered by the raw and soulful vocals of lead singer and guitarist Joan Smith. But their sophomore album, Oh, Hell, stands out for its depth, intricate layers of sound and stellar instrumental performances by Dacey and the band’s drummer, Isaac Klein.

Smith told Apartment613 that while she got her start playing acoustic guitar,“I really wasn’t happy being an ‘acoustic guitar person’ because I didn’t even listen to that kind of music.” When she got herself an electric guitar and an amp, she joined a Led Zeppelin cover band where she met Klein. The two started to date and write their own music that fused “Zeppelinesque… intricacies and riffs” with aggressive blues-rock and elements of country. Their 2009 debut EP Just About Broke led to their first album, Harsh Words. The album was well reviewed on music blogs, and their single “June Bug” was featured in a delightfully terrible Degrassi dance sequence, the Canadian equivalent of having your song used on Glee.

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The strength of neighbourhoods

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apartment613
on Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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hintonburg neighbourhoods ottawa

Graphic courtesy tcp909 on Flickr

This week, Apartment613 and OpenFile have partnered to present a series of stories—apologies for Ottawa—that show off what makes Ottawa a great place to live. We drew inspiration from ideas readers submitted to both websites. Today, Jonathan Migneault writes about the strength of neighbourhoods.
This past March, Apartment613 ran one of the most popular series in the blog’s history, and it was all about the neighbourhood. Dubbed Neighbourhood Wars!, the posts pitted Ottawa’s diverse neighbourhoods against each other until only one, Hintonburg, stood victorious.
“There are a lot of people with neighbourhood-based loyalties in Ottawa,” says Katrina Marsh, the Apartment613 editor who came up with the idea for the series just as the March Madness college basketball tournament was in full swing in the U.S.
Marsh says that from a cultural standpoint, Ottawa’s neighbourhoods have often picked up the city’s slack through informal local institutions and events such as the Raw Sugar Café on Somerset, and the popular annual Cupcake Camp.
In an Ottawa Citizen op-ed, headlined “The trouble with Ottawa is Ottawans,” Andrew Cohen, a Carleton University journalism professor, argued that Ottawa suffers from a great lack of vision.

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Garaga’s back with new shows, upcoming album

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Evey Hornbeck
on Thursday, July 7, 2011
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Image courtesy Garaga

Since playing Bluesfest last summer, Ottawa’s Garaga has kept a low profile, using the money they made at that show to record a new album. And this week, the veteran garage rockers are back with their first show in months and a slew of new songs off an upcoming album to share.

“We don’t play too often, cause we don’t want to wear out our welcome!” laughs guitarist and vocalist Jeff Martin, who I spoke with earlier this week. The band, which Martin calls a mix of Teenage Head and the Ramones, sprinkled with a “dash of 70s stoner rock,” has been together for four or five years. But most of them have been kicking around the Ottawa music scene for much longer, playing in bands like Harshey, Mumbleweed, King Kung, and Stand GT.

“I guess the first band (that I was in) that did anything – and I’m dating myself here – was Neanderthal Spuds. We’re talking late 80s,” says Martin. “We used to play all-ages shows at Porter Hall to three, four hundred kids. Those were the good old days.”

For the band’s members, all of whom keep day jobs, music is a labour of love. That’s why they’ve all stuck with it so long. “There’s no aspirations that we’re gonna be making a pile of money, you know, all quitting our jobs any time soon,” says Martin. “It’s a tough business and there’s not a lot of money to be made in it these days. But it’s something that, you know, we all really like doing. Fun is the first part.”

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The New Art Festival in the Glebe

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Francois
on Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Celebrating handmade original art & the people who create it

Sat & Sun June 4 & 5
10am to 5pm

Central Park, The Glebe

Bank Street at Clemow Avenue, just South of the Queensway. Bank Street accessible by foot; other traffic re-routed to O?Connor Street.

www.artinfoboy.org

* free admission
* family-friendly & community-oriented
* beautiful park setting
* juried by artists & arts professionals
* several award categories
* delicious treats ? savory and sweet ? from local eateries
* refill your water bottle at our water station
* bring a re-useable mug to enjoy delicious organic coffee
* chat with artists from the Ottawa area and beyond

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Shop! Donate! Volunteer! It’s the Great Glebe GREEN Garage Sale this weekend

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trevor
on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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Photo courtesy danoxster on Flickr

Post by Sabrina Bowman, who – disclaimer alert! -is also the co-chair of the GGGGS, along with being an Apt613 contributor.

Do garage sales remind you of velour pants and ugly dishware? If so, you’ve never experienced the Great Glebe GREEN Garage Sale, happening this Saturday from 8am-4pm at 99 Glebe Avenue. The sale is part of the larger Great Glebe Garage Sale, but it’s also a fundraiser for Ecology Ottawa.

The GGGGS is more akin to a once-a-year spectacle than a simple clearing house of cheap, unwanted goods. There’s a bake sale with coffee (admit it, we all need a little help waking up at 8am on a Saturday morning!), a vegetarian barbecue, a henna artist, a massage therapist, and facepainting. There will be some incredible local musicians, including The Pelts and Timekode DJ Eric Roberts, so you can get your groove-on and shop-on at the same time. Oh yes, the stuff: there will be donations from more than 60 people, which means that all those things that could have gone to the landfill now have a new life. Plus, the proceeds of the event will benefit Ecology Ottawa – an organization working to make Ottawa the green capital of Canada – and even better, 10 per cent of the money raised will go to the Ottawa Food Bank. Clearly, this ain’t your grandma’s sale.

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Apt613 candidates survey: Ottawa-Centre

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Karen
on Thursday, April 28, 2011
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Photo courtesy Dean Terry on Flickr.

Survey by Natasha Mooney and Chris Connolly

Apt613′s election correspondents have continued on in their intrepid task – tracking down Ottawa’s local candidates and finding out where they spend their happy hour. And while these details might not change your vote, they’ll give you a bit of a sneak preview as to exactly what kind of person your riding will send to the Hill.

Towards that end, election correspondents Natasha Mooney and Chris Connolly sent out a questionnaire to local candidates in a number of Ottawa ridings, asking them to identify their favourite summer festival, greasy meal, etc. To fill out our survey, we added three meaty questions to the mix:
1) What are your roots in your riding and how have you been involved in the community?
2) Why should our readers vote for you?
3) How would you contribute to the vibrancy of Ottawa’s arts and culture scene?

In our second installment of our investigative survey reports, we’ve got the candidates of Ottawa-Centre, with answers from candidates representing the four largest parties. (Oren Mazor, the candidate for the Pirate Party, didn’t respond to our attempts to contact him. If you know how we could get in touch please email us at editors@apt613.ca). Editor’s note: When we sent the questions out Mazor had indicated he would run – but he ended up not filing his papers in time and thus was not on the ballot.

Quirky fact: Beau’s made it to the favourite things list of three of the candidates. Find out which ones are prone to consuming the local brew below!

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