Seeing as we are in Canada for the weekend (dear thieves, the house is not unoccupied, and the lad staying there is a fighty little fucker), I figured some Canadian songs might be in order. I am actually half-Canadian, which is a bit odd, because I've never actually lived there. So it's always weird coming here, to a country I'm technically from, but which I really don't know at all. Given we played Born Gold, Odonis Odonis, Slow Down Molasses and Hot Panda on last week's show , however, I figured that was probably enough new Canadian [...]
ORO-MEDONTE MAYOR AND COUNCIL COMMEMORATES JULY 1st, 2012 AS THE TRAGICALLY HIP DAY WITH CELEBRATION AT BURL'S CREEK TODAY The Tragically Hip are returning to their infamous Canada Day stomping grounds this July 1st with an epic festival show at Burl's Creek, just minutes north of Barrie. To celebrate, today Oro-Medonte Mayor Harry Hughes accompanied by Councillors presented The Tragically Hip with a Canadian Flag to commemorate The Tragically Hip Day on July 1st, 2012! The Hip's Johnny Fay was on hand for the ceremony that took place on the Burl's Creek festival grounds. Also on hand [...]
Photo by Heather Kaplan Currently in the midst of a tour with their Codes and Keys collaborators Magik*Magik Orchestra and support from Youth Lagoon, Death Cab For Cutie have announced more tour dates to take them through summer. Following previously-scheduled European dates which include the Primavera Sound and Optimus Primavera festivals, DCFC will play two Ontario shows on Canada Day Weekend (06/30-07/01) with The Tragically Hip. U.S. dates begin July 3rd in Cleveland, and will see the band play a number of festivals, [...]
Amazon Yesterday was a pretty busy one as far as festival announcements went - the first acts for this year's Pitchfork Festival , happening July 13 to 15 in Chicago's Union Park, were revealed; Sled Island made a pretty compelling argument for visiting Calgary from June 20 to 23; and though an official announcement is still a little ways off, the fact that Florence & The Machine , The Walkmen , tUnE-yArDs , Black Keys and The Shins will all be passing through during the August long weekend [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Handout, Getty Images Canada Day long weekend is a time for Canucks to kick back and enjoy the finer things in the Great White North. So after sipping on Molson beer, boasting about free health care and playing some street hockey, talk often turns to Canada's musical pride and joy, the Tragically Hip . And this year, folks can do more than fawn over the longtime rockers, [...]
Filed under: News Handout, Getty Images The next time you're driving through Kingston, Ontario, keep an eye out for Tragically Hip Way. According to CTV News , the iconic Canadian rockers have been awarded a block of Barrack Street near the K-Rock Centre Arena in their hometown. Although Kingston city councilor Brian Reitzel came up with the idea last year, fellow councilor Jim Neill argued against it, saying the band [...]
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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 [...]
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