The Ottawa XPress│ March 8, 2007
Anvil’s power tools: Lips, licks and live shows
What do a sober woman and Toronto’s heavy metal legends Anvil have in common? Both turned down Lemmy from Motörhead!
Mid-tour in Toronto, 1983, Motörhead’s guitarist Eddie Clarke quit the band and Lemmy asked Lips (Steve Kudlow), Anvil’s frontman, to fill in. It […]
The Ottawa XPress │ January 18, 2007
The Setbacks’ nod to rock gods
If male rockers pushing 40 could get pregnant, I’d believe that Ottawa’s The Setbacks were the product of a three-way shag in the back of a van between Tricky Woo, C’mon and Maximum RNR.
Baptized with Labatt’s 50 and weaned on MC5 and The […]
The Ottawa XPress │ August 24, 2006
OttawaMetal.com hosts first annual metal benefit concert
For a subculture that gets such a bum rap, Ottawa’s heavy metal scene is lucky to have a solid core of fierce familiars to set the record straight.
“I just want to do as much as I can to diminish the stereotype that […]
The Ottawa XPress │ August 24, 2006
F#@! The Facts are coming to kill you… musically speaking
Ottawa-Gatineau Grindcore band sheds uniformity for diversity
One listen to any track off Stigmata High-Five, the new Fuck The Facts album, and you’ll understand why people sometimes crap their pants when they’re scared.
This multicultural quartet of girl and […]