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FUNHOUSE: Voicemail & Babysitter go to jail!
Ottawa Explosion & Kichesippi Beer presents the 4th edition of Funhouse!This month CRAIG PERU (Small Talk Stinks/Bruised Tongue) & Skid Vicious (Rock & Roll Pizza Party/Ottawa Explosion)...
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VIDEO: The Kidnappers - "East Berlin (Ost- Berlin)"
Hamburg's THE KIDNAPPERS just released their first music video for a track called "East Berlin (Ost-Berlin)" which is coming out on a 7" on Secret Mission Records in October.The video even features a...
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8.15 HUMAN EYE, SWOLLEN EYES & EAT CROW!
Off The Beaten Track & Ottawa Explosion presents...THURSDAY AUGUST 15THHUMAN EYE (Detroit, MI)Psych-punk animals from outer space on In The Red, Goner & Sacred Bones records."One of the world’s...
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Review: Arboretum Arts Festival!
Read a review of Arboretum Arts Festival courtesy of Alanna Why of Pukey Party.Congrats to Arboretum Festival for another successful year!Looking forward to seeing what's to come in the future!
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8.23 Screaming Females, Organ Eyes & The Yips at Gabba Hey!
punkottawa.com, ottawa explosion, and spectrasonic presentSCREAMING FEMALES (New Jersey indie/punk, Don Giovanni recs)www.screamingfemales.comwww.facebook.com/screamingfemalesORGAN EYES (Ottawa...
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Ottawa Explosion presents...FRIDAY AUGUST 30TH 2013KETAMINES (Toronto, ON/Lethbridge, AB)http://ketamines.bandcamp.com/The Ketamines is music from James Leroy and Paul Lawton. Based simultaneously out...
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Ottawa Explosion invades Pop Montreal!
POP Montreal and Ottawa Explosion presents...WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25th 2013HOLY COBRAS (Montreal, QC)Telephone Explosion/Bruised Tongue Recordshttp://www.facebook.com/HolyCobrasWe now reside on the...
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9.26 POP. 1280 & TEENANGER at 614 Gladstone!
Ottawa Explosion & Bruised Tongue presents...THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26th 2013POP. 1280 (New York City, NY)http://pop1280.tumblr.com/ Imps of Perversion, Pop. 1280’s second full-length for Sacred Bones,...
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Wednesday October 2nd Come see Montreal's Sharing help kick off the Yips' Southern Ontario mini-tour!SHARING (Montreal) https://www.facebook.com/sharing.mtlTHE YIPS (Ottawa, Bruised...
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11.7 YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN, THE YIPS & BLUE ANGEL!
spectrasonic, Ottawa Explosion and punkottawa.com presentTHURSDAY NOVEMBER 7th 2013YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN (Toronto/Montreal experimental/noh-wave/performance art, Paper Bag...
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Ottawa Explosion, Bruised Tongue & Debaser present...Wednesday November 6thNIGHT BEATS (Seattle WA)https://www.facebook.com/thenightbeats.u.sTrouble in Mind/Burger Records/Reverberation...
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R.I.P. FUN BOY CLUB HOUSE!
Thanks to Alanna Why for contributing this piece of hard hitting journalism!FUN BOY CLUB HOUSE IS DEAD! LONG LIVE FUN BOY CLUB HOUSE!
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Hey rippers!Here's a bunch of shows happening in the next few weeks! 12.19 Direct Hit, Fresh Hell & Stuck In A Hole at Luneta. 8 pm/$8/AAhttps://www.facebook.com/events/138262087531544712.19 Zine...
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OTTAWA EXPLOSION WEEKEND! JUNE 12 - 15 2014!!
OTTAWA EXPLOSION WEEKEND!!!JUNE 12 - 15TH 2014!Save the dates! Book some time off work now so you don’t regret it later!This will be the fourth edition of Ottawa Explosion Weekend and we’re working...
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OTTAWA EXPLOSION & Dark and Stormy presents...CRUSADES LP RELEASE SHOW!CRUSADES (Ottawa, ON)http://crusades.ca/ CRUSADES recently released their 2nd album "Perhaps You Deliver This Judgment With...
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OXW 2014 LOGO!
Here's the new OTTAWA EXPLOSION WEEKEND 2014 logo!It was drawn by Curtis Delaney (http://pizzatrip.tumblr.com) who is currently hard at work drawing up this year's poster. Curtis plays guitar and sings...
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Roomrunner, Multicult & Pregnancy Scares at 614 Gladstone!
Thanks to everyone who came out! It was a pretty wild night for a Wednesday! Thanks to the residents for the space and the Danger Bay residents for housing the bands!Here's some photos courtesy of...
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March shows!
A lot of stuff going on in Ottawa/Gatineau this month! 3.5 Mr. Chi Pig (of SNFU, acoustic), Chris Walter book reading, Thomas White at Luneta.3.6 New Ottawa Artist Spotlight 3 (Phil Osborne / Bonnie...
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OXW 2014: Band annoucement #1!!!!!
We are very excited to announce the first round of bands playing Ottawa Explosion Weekend 2014! We’ve partnered up with Spectrasonic to bring you Sub Pop recording artists METZ! We’ve also booked an...
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