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Fresh local music whenever you want it, updated monthly by apt613.ca music writers. Add our playlist on Spotify! As the season changes and we gear up for plenty of spooky fun in Ottawa this month, we have a great playlist of local releases that came out last month when the warmer weather was still upon us. Get ready for lots of familiar favourites who have returned with some fresh, new tunes: ranging from comfy folk, angsty rock, and some upbeat pop and rap.

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Bring Me The Horizon at the Canadian Tire Centre. Photo by Landon Entwistle / Taking over the Canadian Tire Centre on Friday night, Bring Me the Horizon arrived on The Third Ascension Program tour with a set designed to cover virtually every era of the band’s career. With The Plot in You and Motionless in White warming up the crowd, the early October night was full of energy in the arena.

Ottawa arts & culture mayoral debate. Photo provided by Arts Ottawa. By: Hue Hetherington Ottawa’s four main contenders for mayor sat down at Arts Court Theatre on Tuesday night to debate arts and culture. Organized by Arts Ottawa, Ottawa Festival Network, and the Ottawa Music Industry Coalition (OMIC), the debate focused solely on the candidates’ vision for Ottawa’s arts sector, if they were to become or get reelected as mayor.

Photo: Kiersten Vuorimaki. The year has flown by and this weekend marks what is, unbelievably, the start of October and the beginning of Spooky season. There are plenty of fabulous fall activities and Halloween haunts, as well as many more things to see and do this weekend. Capital Music Week begins this Friday. Check out the schedule for a host of events taking place around town to mark the occasion.

The first half of October and there’s lots to enjoy: gorgeous trees, bountiful produce at farmers markets, scrumptious Thanksgiving dinners, and of course, films at the ByTowne and the Mayfair. There’s even a free screening on Oct. 1 at the Mayfair that you’ll want to catch. But first, the film I’ve been waiting for all year will be screening at the Mayfair! Yes, Coyote vs. Acme will be at the Mayfair! The folks at Ketchup Entertainment retrieved the film from Warner Bros.

Another Kalkidan piece, created during the Urban Art Collective’s Disrupt 2024 and located near the National Art Gallery in Ottawa. Photo: Ottawalls. By Joseph Malovey, Ottawalls Ottawalls met Kalkidan Assefa, who paints under the name DRPN Soul, at his studio at the Urban Art Collective’s Bayswater Art Hub. I caught Kal after a busy summer, just after he finished his latest work, a large-scale piece in Centretown, titled “Poiesis.” “Poiesis” by DRPN Soul in Centretown, Ottawa. Photo: Ottawalls.

Capital Music Week is back this Friday with a packed lineup of performances, panel discussions, and more exciting events celebrating our city’s music and nightlife scene. The Ottawa Music Industry Coalition (OMIC) will be hosting its second edition of Capital Music Week after a successful inaugural run last May. This year’s programming features headlining performances byBif Naked and Tyler Shaw, with local pop artist Jamie Fine serving as this year’s Capital Music Week Ambassador.

The Templar and the Magdalene is a mystical fantasy novel that straddles the fourteenth century and the present day while addressing contemporary social problems like gentrification. It will easily be of interest to people who like both medieval mysteries and modern fantasy literature. The author is C.D. McCarthy, a native Ottawan who is a retired Duke University medical writer/librarian and long-time author.

/ There was something almost too fitting about Sabaton arriving in Ottawa on Saturday night. While the city spent the day and night celebrating the 200th anniversary of the founding of ByTowne with music, history, art and festivities across downtown, History Ottawa was preparing for its own kind of historical celebration: an evening of Swedish heavy metal devoted to battles, legends and stories from the past.