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One Band, One Stage — Tune in for U2’s live global webcast from the Rose Bowl – October 25th @ 8:30 p.m. (PT) Holy shit you just read that right, theres going to be a live streaming webcast of U@ at the Rose bowl. , Here is what the band is saying about this:
U2 have [...]

Top ten songs from the itunes store
Party In the U.S.A.
Miley Cyrus
I Gotta Feeling
Black Eyed Peas
Down
Jay Sean
Use Somebody
Kings of Leon
Good Girls Go Bad (feat. Leighton Meester)
Cobra Starship
Hotel Room Service
Pitbull
She Wolf
Shakira
Send It On (feat. Demi Lovato, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus & Selena Gomez)
Disney’s Friends for Change
You Belong With Me
Taylor Swift
Whatcha Say
Jason DeRulo

Party In the U.S.A.
Miley Cyrus

I Gotta [...]

Finally after about two months of eager anticipation I finally recieved my Bluesfest volunteer schedule. I was lucky enough to get in with the stage crew, not bad for a first timer huh Woohoo !!! Im hoping that I’ll be doing stage up or being a gear monkey bitch for some bands. Either way though [...]

Checking my Twitter this morning lead me to discovering this Ottawa heavy rock band Digging For Hoffa. 
Digging For Hoffa is a 4 piece heavy rock band. The crew list is comprised of Lloyd Charlebois Vocals, Michel Fortin Drummer, Rob Sands Bass Guitar, Andy Popovic Lead and Rhythm Guitars. If youre interested in what type of music they [...]

Looks like Im going to be a volunteer this year at the ottawa blues fest. WHich is very cool, because Im doing to the stage crew duty. Hopefully this will allow me access to some of the bands I want to see and the bluesfest performers. I’ll post my experiences on my blog so stay [...]

Ottawa Concert tour rumours are flying every where, with some big ticket bands rumoured to be hitting out town in the coming year. I was just checking out chez 106 online, I usually hit their concert advisory page every now and again to see who may be coming in concert to ottawa. So I decided [...]

Today was the first warm day in Ottawa All year.  The temperature in Ottawa Today was at one point 30 degreees, its 27 right now at 7:54 pm !!!!. I could totally FEEL summer today and its just an amazing feeling. So this got me into a summer music frame of mind. Time to build [...]

It’s the real deal everybody Kiss has confirmed their date at the Ottawa Bluefest this year !!!!
KISS will rock the stage at this year’s Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest on Wednesday, July 15. 
Tickets go on sale to the general public Saturday April 25, 2009 at 10 a.m. As a KISS Army fan club member, you have access [...]

Doing my part for the Local Ottawa Music scene today. I thought I would introduce a Band Called Where’s Mike? Where’s Mike band consists of the following members. Kevin McIlhinney, Erik McIlhinney, Ian Myers, Luc Lefebvre. Their facebook page can be found here >>> Where’s Mike On Facebook Wheres Mike is a good time rocking band, they play everything from Queensryche,to [...]

In my last post about the ottawa bluesfest line up, I mentioned that Kissmight be playing,oris rumoured to be playing at bluesfest got me stoked for some kiss music. SO I went ot the Kiss website and snatched a video for you to watch.Hopefully this is good vibe stuff and will encourage the gods of [...]

Its ottawa Bluesfest season again !!! Last years Bluesfest was a blast and from some of the buzz Ive been hearing this years Bluesfest lookslike its gonna be a barn burner as well. The 2009 edition of the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest will feature hundreds of performances on multiple stages. 
Please Note: The line-up will be announced at noon on April [...]

 
Today is the day Metallica tickets go on sale. After a summer in Europe, American headbangers Metallica return to North America for a fall tour that will stop at Scotiabank Place on Oct. 29. It is the band’s first visit to the nation’s capital in five years. It’s been a long voer due tour. Metallicas [...]

Gill has a friend named John Hughes who is in the local Ottawa Band Daisy Train.  Heres a little blurb about Daisy Train. Taken from their website. I havent personally had to opportunity to see this local Ottawa band live but from what I have seen from their you tube videos they look like theyre [...]

Heres a quick youtube video of Mike Martel doing a drum solo. Mike Martel is the brother of a guy I work Tom Martel. Tom is a member of a Local Ottawa band Renegade. From I gather from Tom’s band  Renegade plays local bars Mostly in the out skirts oftown and smaller communities. They should [...]

A short music video taken at mike and sheilas x-mas party. James Rogers, craiger and I cant remember the other dudes name playing their guitars. The style of music was a fusion of country rock, bluegrass and some french canadian songs thrown in for some local flavour.Turns out mike has many more videos of the [...]

Heres a video of james rogers and another french guy playing some guitar at a party. I want you to take note of the black guitar in the foreground. This guy is playing the backwards and upsidedown.

So I’m in one of the weird loving moods and thought about the U2 song everlasting love. So I thought I would post the everlasting love lyrics along with the video

Hearts go astray
Leaving hurt when they go
I went away
Just when you needed me so
Filled with regret
I come back beggin you
Forgive, forget
Wheres the love we once [...]

YES you just read that right, I said share your mix tapes. And yes I did spell muxtape.com right. Its mix tapes with a U
HA! Who has mix tapes anymore? Ok I am dating myself but I/we have mix tapes. Actually forgot I had them until last week when we were doing a little organizing [...]

Ottawa concert listing for Alice Cooper
Saturday, October 11, 2008  8:00 PM – 12:00 AM
LOCATION OTTAWA CIVIC CENTRE Ottawa ON, 1012 Bank St, Ottawa ON
Ottawa concert details and information For Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Furnier February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans five decades. With a stage show [...]

The Blues fest is or was back in Ottawa this year bring ottawa some of the finest musical acts from all over the world and across all musical genres. There was pretty much a little bit of everything this year for everybody.
This year we saw.

The tragically hip
Three days grace
The black crowes
Theory of a dead man
Great [...]

We’ve won the DRM battle 

Sony BMG, the company that cheerleaded DRM music through rootkits is about to drop DRM, according to a report by Businessweek.
"Sony BMG will become the last of the big four record companies to offer music without the handicap of digital rights management, effectively putting the final nail into the music DRM [...]

Did I mention that The Who is in town tonight here in ottawa. How did that slip my mind, as you can see Im not there. Not that i’m not a huge fan of the who, well actually Im not. I like the CSi theme music though. Just joking I do like the who Just [...]

Can someone please explain to me why concert tickets are so damned expensive? I was going to go see the goo goo dolls then I saw the ticket prices !!! 118$ are they FREEKING NUTS.
Just about a month ago maybe longer…my girlfriend went to montreal to see madonna. She paid 250$ for tickets. I personally [...]

Holy crap.. I just found out Mega Deth is still alive and on tour here in canada. Strange first post i know but really that is weird