Articles by Luke Pearson

Little Animal! Showed Ottawa Their Weirdo-Jazz Bonafides

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 26

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2023

Mercifully tented, the OLG stage was the place to be on a stormy Monday night; shielding from the elements, incubating the jazz. The 7:30 s...

TEKE::TEKE Brought the After-Hours Party to Ottawa Jazz Fest

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 24

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2023

TEKE::TEKE was the tip for day two of the Ottawa Jazz Festival. Hot off the release of their second album Hagata, the Montreal-based...

Feist Was Charismatic and Unpredictable in Ottawa

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 23

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2023

Festival season has officially started here in Ottawa, with both its eponymous Jazz Festival and Escapade kicking off this weekend — the mu...

des hume Broadcasts a Strong Signal on 'FM.era'

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2023

Teased all the way back in 2021 with a single that didn't even end up on the album (the wholly worthwhile "Shockerbaby"), synthpop songwrit...

M83 Reaches for Familiar Heights on the Shimmering 'Fantasy'

PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2023

Anticipation was high for Fantasy. The first proper artist album from M83 in seven years — a soundtrack for his brother's Knife + Heart fil...

Samia Swings Big on the Sweet, Striving 'Honey'

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2023

Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia Najimy Finnerty's The Baby was one of 2020's more promising debuts, fitting in nicely with similar alter...

Junior Boys' 'Waiting Game' Pays Off

PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2022

Hamilton electro-funk duo Junior Boys have carried the torch of Canadian sub-mainstream electronic music steadily, if sometimes unspectacul...

Patrick Holland Finds a New Voice Under an Old Name on 'You're the Boss'

PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2022

Previously known as Project Pablo — purveyor of reliably solid, jazz-inflected ambient house tracks — Patrick Holland began releasing music...