The Rainbow's 40th Birthday Party Continues Friday Nov 29 with three more awesome local bands:

Double Experience + The Wilderness + Chase

Double Experience THE "URKEL" TO EVERYONE'S "BILL MURRAY": The story so far of Ottawa nerd rockers, Double Experience.

“Still here and screaming ‘I’m undefeated’.”

These passing lyrics from “Undefeated” - the title track of the forthcoming album by Canadian nerd rockers Double Experience - tell a bigger story. From the moment that their critically acclaimed and CMA-nominated ALIGNMENTS album was released in March of 2020, this Ottawa based rock-duo stopped rolling 20 sided and got to rolling with punches. But by the end of that year, Double Experience established themselves as a live-streaming tour-de-force on Twitch, and were subsequently chosen by Twitch Music staff to launch their artist incubator program, “The Collective”. During that entire process, Double Experience wrote an entire-album’s worth of music with their audience - one song every month, in fact.

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By taking influence from WEEZER, MUSE, and COHEED AND CAMBRIA, Double Experience bounce between sounds in a quest to compose music as diverse as an arcade gallery. In doing so, Double Experience have bonded with a passionate global fan-base with their undeniable live prowess amounting to nearly 1000 concerts across 18 countries, opening for all manner of acts, including BADFLOWER, DANKO JONES, JJ WILDE and MC LARS.

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By day, mild-mannered band members Ian Nichols (vocals, bass) and Brock Tinsley (guitar) deliver band-oriented workshops and panels at conferences, conventions and festivals (IndieWeek, MAGFest, Ottawa ComicCon), teaching up-and-coming creatives how to take control of their own destiny in a similar way as the duo’s musical alter-ego. The band have cowritten songs with Jayson DeZuzio (Imagine Dragons) and in 2016, their Destiny-themed anthem “The Glimmer Shot” caught the attention of the game's developers at Bungie. Double Experience music has been featured everywhere from terrestrial radio to theme music for streamers and podcasts.

About: https://www.2xexperience.com Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@DoubleExperience Listen: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xGNws7b5XGjcPiKrM5iSm

The Wilderness

The Wilderness is what you get when six chosen brothers from Kingston, ON spend nine years driving 100,000 miles for nothing but the love of rock n’ roll. Sometimes, you get songs like therapy sessions, oversharing to strangers about your weird relationship with your dad and how you thought you'd be young forever. Other times, you get your mum's favourite would-be arena band crammed into your hometown's sweatiest dive bar on a Tuesday night with rent due in the morning. No matter what, you get the hardest-working, harmony-belting, saxophone-growling, cowboy-chord-strumming, tambourine throwing small-town rock n’ roll band your friends have probably never heard of, in it for the long haul from 2015 - forever

About: https://thewildernessband.com Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0S_xmUJ-S4 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5wzvWuUm4lWNziBAHEpr3X

Chase

About: https://chasevandusenmusic.com/home APT 613: https://apt613.ca/a-chat-with-local-musician-chase-van-dusen/ Canadian Beats: https://canadianbeats.ca/2022/07/15/chase-shares-on-new-ep-compulsive/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/chasevandusenmusic/