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Hello friends and others. I am off on a mini-vacation tomorrow (see above picture). When we get back from Mexico the plan is to finish packing up our house and move to Vancouver...finally. Life will be pretty wild over the next few weeks so I highly doubt that there will be much new music posted up here. As a present, here is a playlist that I will be listening to while sitting by the pool, eating tacos, drinking chi-chi's and playing some serious Scrabble. Till then... 1. Dirty Gold - California Sunrise [...]
Filed under: News , New Releases Canada for Haiti via Getty Images The Tragically Hip will be diving into a very young demographic next month when the popular music series Rockabye Baby! covers the band's biggest hits. According to AUX , 'Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of the Tragically Hip' comes out Nov. 8 and will include 'Courage,' 'New Orleans Is Sinking,' 'Poets,' 'Little Bones' and 'Nautical Disaster,' among others. [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Shirlaine Forrest, WireImage Moments before the last song, on the last day of Osheaga (July 31), Flaming Lips lead singer Wayne Coyne took several deep breaths and stopped the show. Having just finished a complete run through of their 1999 psychedelic comeback album, 'The Soft Bulletin,' possibly for "the last time ever," the shaggy Coyne -- looking somewhat stirred from the emotional [...]
A band celebrating it's tenth year is not a an easy feat. The weight of inner turmoil and a desire to break out or bust usually causes most bands to rupture from the inside out. What has happened since the great buffalo trio " Johnny Nobody " struck it's first chord? The curse of the Bambino was lifted and Vancouver rioted in the streets to give us a famous kiss. The prophecy of the Canadian band the Tragically Hip came true; New Orleans actually did sink under the wrath of a hurricane called Katrina. [...]
Canada Day is much more than our country's birthday. For as long as I can remember, it has been a great excuse to get out and enjoy some of the outstanding music emanating from the "Great White North." It seems like every city and town across Canada has a festival going on that you'd kill to be at; there are way too many to list, but it would appear that even newlyweds Will and Kate would agree with this. After all, they took in the annual extravaganza on Parliament Hill in Ottawa as [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Courtesy of the Tragically Hip Whether they like it or not, the Tragically Hip are Canada's band. More precisely, for many national rock and roll fans, the Hip are Canada. In a country with few strong symbols on which to hang its identity, citizens tend to proselytize pop cultural signifiers into emblems of national consciousness: hockey, the coffee chain Tim Hortons and CanRock. [...]
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hello from chicago, my homeland! everything looks pretty much the same, only i am different. its kinda weird what happens when you come back to your hometown after an extended absence. it feels the same, almost like ive never left, but i question if i even belong here anymore? i would move back, but i almost feel like im meant to be elsewhere. anyway, ive probably had too many beers to be getting too personal on the subject. what i got here is some circa 87 tragically hip demos. a tape showed up on ebay a while [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Book Club Courtesy of the Tragically Hip The Tragically Hip were the single most definitive act of the CanRock Renaissance between 1985-1995. Beginning in 1985, they built their audience with electric live performances, one rapt concert-goer after another, until 1991's 'Road Apples' thrust them into the mainstream. Suddenly they were ubiquitous: on the radio, on Canada's TV music station MuchMusic, in every bar, blaring out of [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Book Club Image From 'Have Not Been the Same' It shouldn't be too hard for any music fan to name groundbreaking and influential Canadian artists: Neil Young , Joni Mitchell , the Band , Leonard Cohen ... and then Arcade Fire , Feist , New Pornographers , Broken Social Scene . But what about the in-between? 'Have Not Been [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 56 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by Big Talk, Black Lips, Digitalism, Flogging Molly, Sublime with Rome, OFF!, Tape Deck Mountain and more! So much more! DATE: 05-18-11 WRITER: Don Loder Heya junky, Awright, s'here we go again wit' another installment o' The SWAG Report. Ain't it fun? You addicts git yer fix, an' I get ta torture ya by babblin' a little in advance – everybody wins! This week though, I think yer [...]
Filed under: News , New Releases Canada for Haiti via Getty Images The Tragically Hip are apparently making a feature-length documentary about their fans at the location of one of their signature songs, 'Bobcaygeon.' Although details are limited, a May 13 post entitled 'We shot a movie once...' (aptly referring to the opening line of the track 'New Orleans is Sinking') on the band's site announced they will also be filming [...]
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ARTIST: Iggy Pop - [Album] DATE: 05-16-11 REVIEW BY: Bill Adams Be a working musician for as long as Iggy pop has been (about forty-three years, if you didn't know) and keep a regular touring and release schedule for about the same amount of time, and it's likely that a pretty sizable bank of legally questionable releases will begin to accumulate. Some of those bootlegs have even been known [view more]
Canadian rock icons The Tragically Hip have been strongly representing their beloved country for the past 28 years, and show no signs of slowing down. The Kingston, ON-based quintet will be hitting the road for an 11-date trek that sees them primarily in Canada for its duration. The tour's initial stop is Watertown, NY on June 24th, the first of only two U.S. dates (the other is in Buffalo on July 30th). One week later, Gordon Downie and company will be tearing up the stage with an epic festival performance for Canada Day on July, alongside Weezer and fellow Canuck rockers Hey Rosetta!, Buck 65, and [...]
DOWNLOAD : The Trews - "One By One" Earlier this month, Toronto roots-rock band The Trews released their fourth studio disc, Hope & Ruin , on The Trews Records. While the band hasn't yet gotten a solid foothold into the US market, they have had ten "Top-10" singles in Canada, earned two gold records and toured with a variety of bands ranging from Guns N' Roses to Robert Plant. I remember the band playing Mercury Lounge a few times over the last couple years but [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , New Music , New Releases Courtesy of Universal Music When they first joined forces for the side-project Strippers Union, the Tragically Hip 's Rob Baker and Odds singer Craig Northey had an instant chemistry that resulted in 2005's 'Strippers Union Local 518.' However, it took a while longer to get around to 'The Deuce,' their aptly titled sophomore album released last month. "I want to make the record when [...]
OSHEAGA 2011 Eminem, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, The Tragically Hip, Death From Above 1979, Kid Cudi and many more! Now 3 days at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal! JULY 29, 30 and 31, 2011 / PARC JEAN-DRAPEAU 3 DAY FESTIVAL PASSES GO ON SALE FRIDAY, APRIL 15th AT NOON! Tickets available at Bell Centre Box Office By phone: (514) 790-2525 or 1 877 668-8269 Order online: www.osheaga.com or www.evenko.ca Group sales: (514) 925-2561 ou 1 [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Awards Matt Barnes The XM Verge Music Awards celebrated the best in Canadian music on March 1 with eclectic performances by the Acorn, Tokyo Police Club and Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie, all of whom were eclipsed by Michou's shocking upset as Artist of the Year over the likes of Arcade Fire and Tegan and Sara . The four-piece from Windsor [...]
Seems as if I'm still dealing with technical problems on indie music filter. Â You'll notice a hell of a bunch of my posts include weird characters (ie. a question mark in a black diamond), which I think I know how to fix. Â Also, last weeks issues made my twitter feed go nuts. Â Sorry if it looked like I was being overly keen on new music, I didn't mean to clog anyone's stream. Â In the meantime, here's a whack of different things I'm into online. -As part of Giant System Chicago , here's a band called Golden [...]
Frank Yang It was an evening of familiar faces and (slightly) unfamiliar names at The Horseshoe on Saturday night. The familiar being Nicole Atkins , whom despite playing here four times in just eight months , hadn't been back to visit in over three years and in the interim, changed her backing band entirely and renamed them from The Sea to The Black Sea. Nor were support act Cotton Jones strangers locally, having come through a number of times in their old incarnation of Page [...]
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