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Tattoo Tales: Sylvie pens ink feature for Guerilla Magazine

For the current issue of Guerilla Magazine, Sylvie interviews Dan Allaston, tattooist and owner of New Moon Tattoo.

He’s been a jack of all trades and a free bird on the open road, he calls himself a procrastinator and a bad employee, but tattoo artist Dan Allaston has combined artistic talent with sound business sense to […]

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Sylvie talks rock photography in XPress Cover Story

The Ottawa XPress │ March 6, 2008
Private faces, public places
Local photographer Ian Flynn McDonald gets up-close and personal with Ottawa’s indie rock scene
Ottawa’s indie rockers and their fans are the focus of Indie 613, an exhibit by photographer Ian Flynn McDonald.

At one time a perennial fixture on the Ottawa music scene, McDonald […]

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The Sensitive Heavy Metal Guy: upcoming Guerilla article

In the upcoming March issue of Guerilla Magazine, I team up with Up Front and Tokyo Sex Whale drummer, JP Sadek, to interview Andrew Tweedy from Buried Inside (Relapse Records).
We’re looking at how this talented musician goes from creating the most aggressive hardcore music with a band to retreating to create Glass Fingers, a […]

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Sylvie finds out about the Howe (Gelb) and why behind Kate Maki: XPress Feature

The Ottawa XPress │ February 7, 2008
Howe to make Maki roll
Howe Gelb takes Kate Maki’s music to new heights
If her stagger-to-the-saloon groove and parlour-blues tunes weren’t enough to grab your attention, Sudbury’s Kate Maki has enlisted the help of eccentric Arizona singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist Howe Gelb to produce her latest album, On High, […]

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