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Tragically Hip On Canada Day: Gord Downie’s The Nation’s Weird Uncle

Tragically Hip's Gord Downie

Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie

UPDATE: Because Spinner is RIP we’ve unearthed this story at this link.

The Tragically Hip‘s big Canada Day show this year took place at Burl’s Creek in Oro, Ontario.

The giant campsite played host to the Hip, Death Cab For Cutie, The New Pornographers and the Rural Alberta Advantage.

The one thing Sarah and I couldn’t get over when we were watching Gord Downie and the rest of the Hip perform was how effortlessly Downie has helped be sort of like a guiding hand for the less art intuitive.

What he represents is a gateway drug pusher for Canadian art, like that uncle who gives you a joint for graduating high school.

As such, Sarah wrote about it, and I took pictures of it, for Spinner.

You can read the whole related article by clicking here.

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Our Lady Peace Discuss The Fighting Arts And George Chuvalo

Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace

While our favourite tribute to the fighting arts remains Friendly Rich‘s “The Ballad Of George Chuvalo,” finding out Our Lady Peace were inspired at least in part by fightin’ for their new album Curve was worth talking about.

So I did. With them. Mostly about the aforementioned George Chuvalo, who appeared on OLP’s album.

To read the story over at Spinner, click here.

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Polaris People For The Week Of June 29 (Lindi Ortega! Rich Aucoin! Gamblers!)

Dan Mangan and CBC's Lana Gay

Dan Mangan and CBC’s Lana Gay

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.

In the latest edition we discuss Lindi Ortega‘s love of bourbon, Rich Aucoin‘s money situation and the fact that the CBC is enabling gamblers.

To read about it, go here.

 

 

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This Week In Music History: June 24 – 30

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

My “This Week In Music History” feature went out again this week over at the Spinner.

The big news is that Michael Jackson died this week. I know, it’s a tragedy. In other stuff, Wham! played their last show, Beyonce went solo, and a bunch of people got trampled in mud and died during a Pearl Jam performance.

To find out more things that made music history, click here.

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Polaris People For The Week Of June 22 (Joel Plaskett! Drake!)

Joel Plaskett

Joel Plaskett

Ever since the 2012 Polaris Music Prize Long List got announced writing about the “Polaris People” had changed dramatically. This, because there are 40 new acts to talk about.

In the latest edition of my column on the Polaris Music Prize website Drake, A Tribe Called Red, Cannon Bros. and a bunch of others made the news.

To read about it, go here.

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