Articles By Jill Krajewski
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Reviews
Carly Rae Jepsen E•MO•TION: Side B Published Sep 01, 2016Carly Rae Jepsen is the queen of beating the odds — or maybe just our doubts. She's a critically acclaimed nostalgia pop artist free of the...
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Bryan Ferry LeBreton Flats Park, Ottawa ON, July 17 Published Jul 18, 2016You have chanteur Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music to thank if punk or new wave mean anything to you. Ferry and his bandmates, including Brian Eno...
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Streams
Rae Spoon "I Hear Them Calling" (video) Published Jul 18, 2016Armour, singer-songwriter Rae Spoon's follow-up to the Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2013 album My Prairie Home, is full of personal songs a...
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Duran Duran LeBreton Flats Park, Ottawa ON, July 16 Published Jul 17, 2016In Duran Duran's 1985 James Bond movie megahit "A View to a Kill," frontman Simon Le Bon sings pleadingly yet confidently of the chance to f...
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Steve Adamyk Band LeBreton Flats Park, Ottawa ON, July 15 Published Jul 16, 2016Steve Adamyk Band saw one of their biggest hometown crowds yet at RBC Bluesfest last night (July 15), with several hundred people of all age...
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Preoccupations LeBreton Flats Park, Ottawa ON, July 9 Published Jul 10, 2016These things are true: Preoccupations' 2015 debut Viet Cong is a thrilling work of doomsday post-punk, widely lauded and short-listed for th...
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Features
An Essential Guide to Nine Inch Nails Published Jun 07, 2016Nine Inch Nails have been producing unnerving, dynamic industrial music for nearly 30 years now. From their 1994 breakthrough The Downward S...
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Rae Spoon Pressed Café, Ottawa ON, February 26 Published Feb 27, 2016The mark of a gifted songwriter is the ability to create the most emotion with the fewest notes. Rae Spoon is a master of restraint, conveyi...
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Kalle Mattson National Arts Centre, Ottawa ON, November 5 Published Nov 06, 2015It's hardly surprising that Kalle Mattson's go-to segue on stage is "this is a song about death." His Polaris Music Prize long-listed al...