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RAINMAN is quenching Ottawa’s thirst for dubstep music by spinning “filthy, wobbly, bass-driven” music across the city.

It has been over a year since Sebastian Lowes, a third-year business student at Carleton, started DJing professionally and adopted the name RAINMAN from the movie starring Dustin Hoffman.

Now, he is venturing into music production and is working on original tracks for a free EP he is set to release online at the end of the month.

Carleton music students studying rock fusion will perform a different type of concert Jan. 21 for their annual winter showcase performance, now known as Carleton Bandfest.

This year, students learning fusion, a style of music that mixes jazz and rock, will be performing at Oliver’s Pub instead of their usual show at the Kailash Mital Theatre, said Wayne Eagles, the performance professor whose students are to be showcased at the concert to fulfill a course requirement.

Few movies in recent memory have challenged the viewer to examine their own life and their choices. Presentation seems to have taken precedence over substance in recent years.

Margaret Cho will wrap up her North American tour in Ottawa, performing stand-up and songs off her Grammy-nominated comedy album, Cho Dependent, at the National Arts Centre Jan. 22.