This Month At Liberty Bar

In addition to my Thirsty Thursday residency, I'll be DJing special Irish/rock/folk sets all day at Liberty Bar every Saturday leading up to and including Saint Patrick's Day. They'll be featuring green beer, Irish coffees, Tullamore Dew giveaways, corned beef and cabbage, and various other Irish paraphernalia. The 3rd I'll be opening up for DJ Harv and Plan C's new residency (you may remember them from NYE), and the 10th will be part of the Erin's Express pub crawl known as the Running of the Mick's. Check out the Facebook fan page for more details!

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Show Review: Souljazz Orchestra

Ottawa's Souljazz Orchestra coaxes more varied sounds from drums, keys, and three types of saxophone than most full orchestras due from a much broader selection of instruments. For my first show at World Cafe Live, I was pessimistic about the chances of people getting on their feet, but the unique blend of originals and covers of Fela Kuti, James Brown, and others simply compelled movement. If you get a chance to see them, do it. I bought the vinyl over and above the price of a ticket at World Cafe. They are that good.

The New Division's Star Is Rising

The New Division have been upping their profile lately, performing at a pre-Oscar party benefitting Global Green, packed with celebrities like Adrian Grenier, seen above with TND frontman John Kunkel. Their focus is still broad though, as tracks from the crew's side projects just keep getting better. As John Glenn, Kunkel recently released trance track "Columbo":

Keyboardist Mark Michalski's Datsyuk project just made "Love 16" a free download on their Bandcamp page:

Converse "DoYaThing" Collaboration

Watch the video and then download this absurd dream [here]. Members of LCD Soundsystem, Outkast, and Blur on one track? Yes please.

Trip Lee - I'm Good [feat. Lecrae] (prod. CJ Luzi)

Christian rapper Trip Lee just dropped a new single featuring his mentor, Lecrae, who broke into the mainstream by outselling Kanye on iTunes, drawing attention from Statik Selektah and whoever selects artists for the BET cyphers, among others. "I'm Good" also happens to be produced by Flying Circus favorite CJ Luzi, whose work with OnCue has been very successful.