Here is the official list of winners for the 2017 Ottawa Sound Music Awards! Congrats to everyone who was nominated and everyone who won! Producer Of The Year: Mike Poisson Mike Poisson won the tightly contested Producer Of The Year category. He has worked on: Castlefield The Mascot EP: https://castlefield.bandcamp.com/releases Coveter: Love Me to Pieces, by Coveter 5 track album coveter.bandcamp.com Lost in a Wave - Rats (2017) Bandcamp: https://rats613.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-a-wave Harmful Distractions - The Superlative Bandcamp:  https://thesuperlativeband.bandcamp.com/album/harmful-distractions No Filter single - T-Rex Marathon (2018) Bandcamp:  https://t-rexmarathon.bandcamp.com/track/no-filter The Departed - The Thirteenth Floor (2018-vocals only) Bandcamp:  https://thrtnth.bandcamp.com/ Into the Snow, Kill the Engine - Weird With Cats (2017) Bandcamp:  https://weirdwithcats.bandcamp.com/ The Pennyroyal EP (March 10, 2018) is coming out next we

It is always a treat to get to see your favourite band play live, especially when you live in Canada and your favourite band is from Europe. When you consider the fact that not many European bands do a full Canadian tour, it makes seeing them all the more special. Most bands from Europe hit Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and maybe Winnipeg and Regina (if those last two cities are lucky). Many times they skip over Ottawa, Halifax, Brampton, Charlottetown, Thunderbay, Quebec City, Laval, Saskatoon, Lethbridge, Victoria and many other cities in this beautiful country, which I explained in a different article . When I found out that Enter Shikari wasn't coming to Ottawa, I decided I'd rent a car and drive down to Toronto to see them, because they're my favourite band and I love watching them play. For the first 10 years that I was a fan, I had to satiate my hunger for a live performance by watching grainy low-quality cellphone footage on YouTube or wait a long

Hey! It's that time again, the monthly update is here. The Ottawa Sound has a new TeeSpring campaign up and running, we're raising money for The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Research Foundation. There are two designs available and they're available here: https://teespring.com/the-ottawa-sound-mental-health https://teespring.com/theottawa-sound-mental-health We've also started up an opinion section, which is where you, our readers, can send us your opinions, and we'll throw them up on the site! you can send your pieces to theottawasound@gmail.com and use the subject line: Opinion Piece. We are proud to announce the final line up for our show on March 31st at #askapunk is: Noi Ya (Opener) 7:30-8:10 Unholy Era 8:15-8-45 Rebel Reload 8:50-9:20 Lessons In Crime 9:25-End Some of the proceeds of this show will be donated to The Royal.  We're also selling ad space on the site now. If you're a band, music related business or venue, hit us up for mo

If you live in Ottawa you are no doubt used to having your favourite acts skip our beautiful city on their tours, and you may have asked yourself, why? Why won't they come and play here? There isn't any single correct answer to that question. Part of it has to do with location; it also has to do with our lack of large venues, and believe it or not, we're viewed as a small market. The reason location plays a factor in our little problem is this, we're only four hours away from Toronto and two hours away from Montreal. Many acts don't want to spend the extra money on a venue in Ottawa if people can just use a car, train or plane to get to Montreal or Toronto in a half decent amount of time. Ottawa is also lacking in one very important thing when it comes to music: venues. For a band like Metallica, ACDC, or a giant act like Beyonce or Katy Perry to come to a town, they need to have a venue big enough to hold a few hundred to a few thousand people. Could you picture AC