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Here is some live video shot at The Hive on Friday of The Stone Angels winning song. There will be an extensive story about The Angels later this week, in the meantime call KOOL FM and request “Not a Word”
Do it NOW!
The KOOL FM request line is 519-884-1053
Special thanks to Tracy for shooting this performance [...]

The votes are in, and the winner of the Kool Fm Koolest Artist is…
The Stone Angels 18.8%
Night Crash Noir 13.9%
Meredith Grant 12.6%
Ascot Royals 12.4%
Spirits 11.28%
The Stars Here 9.22%
Todd Donald 8.84%
Paul MacLeod 5.64%
The Gran Casino 3.76%
Happy Camper 3.58%
The Stone Angels. (Scot is gloating a bit here) This kick ass quartet will rawk your sawks off at [...]

(taped message, received at the head office of Local Vibe, top secret)

Your mission Scot and Ian, should you decide to accept it is to shoot 50 bands in 2 days in nine venues. We know that it is a daunting task, but we trust you can find enough recruits to assist you in [...]

We are accepting submissions from local Ontario musicians to feature one song of theirs on a compilation CD, to be released this summer at a live show featuring some of the bands from the compilation. All profits will go to a local charity, to be determined soon.
Deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2009.
Basically, what’s happening, [...]

Thursday marks a rare Cambridge appearance for The Ketch Harbour Wolves. Along with Mathew De Zoete and Personal Helicopter, they are playing an acoustic night at The Groove Kitchen.
The Wolves have been making waves across Southern Ontario since migrating here from Ketch Harbour Nova Scotia. Several of them are students at the U of W [...]

I went with Ian to The Boathouse to catch the Colour Tasters and happened to catch Paul’s act. Both Ian and I
have been somewhat of groupies since. Now this is nothingagainst any other genre, but some nights I don’t want to hear screaming obscenities.
Paul tells stories with his songs and you want to hear every [...]

Three small children died in a house fire on Bell Island, in Newfoundland’s Conception Bay, this weekend. An electrical problem caused a fire that killed three small children on an island off eastern Newfoundland this weekend, investigators have determined.
A girl, seven, and her five-year-old brother died in the blaze, as well as their five-year-old [...]

Bands come and go, but when the music is in your blood you won’t stop. Jacqueline Tucci, a teenage Cambridge musician, didn’t let her recent breakup with Perfectly Imperfect stop her for long.  Rather than bemoan the splitup, she has struck out on her own as a solo artist, and already has several songs recorded.
On [...]

Robbie Hancock takes the stage

Caught in the Act: Open Jam at Mulligan’s

One of the great things about an open jam is you never know what to expect, and Saturdays jam at Mulligan’s was no exception. I stopped in to talk to Robbie Hancock about the upcoming Argus Festival. Robbie was transplanted from his usual Wednesday [...]

Monday December 22
7-8:30pm
City Hall, 50 Dickson St.
Free parking behind City Hall (enter off of Cambridge and Thorne Streets) and in Beverly / Wellington lot.
An outdoor ambient music piece for an infinite number of portable music players. Started in New York City, the Unsilent Night walk has become an avant-garde holiday tradition in over 35 cities [...]

This Saturday, on Hespeler Rd., a rumble of magnificent proportions will take place.
Starting at 5 p.m. eight bands will fight it out on stage to determine Who will be crowned the ultimate champion.

Battle of the Bands!