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Tragically Hip’s Kensington Market Takeover: Complete With A ‘Weird’ Interview

The Tragically Hip at Kensington Market

The Tragically Hip at Kensington Market

UPDATE: Because Spinner is RIP, Sarah’s full interview with The Hip can be found here.

To celebrate the release of The Tragically Hip‘s newest album Now For Plan A the band recently took over Toronto’s boho Kensington Market neighbourhood for multiple days worth of free mini concerts, interviews and autograph sessions.

Sarah went down to experience the unique event and also interview the band. The resulting interview was, well, “weird,” devolving into a lengthy discussion on how the mess on old Russian hockey nets makes for more exciting goal scoring than with the antiseptic nets used these days. Yeah. Blame Gord Downie.

To read the story head over to Spinner by clicking here.

Also, for added Hip-ness, I did a dangle piece for Gord Downie‘s appearance on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight over at Huffington Post Music Canada. That’s worth tracking down too because Gord says some heavy stuff.

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This Week In Music History: October 7 – 13

Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke

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

In this edition we investigate the strange cosmic bind between Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and Simon Cowell. Maintaining the space theme, there’s info about ZZ Top trying to get to the moon.

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

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Spinner News Mega Pack: Thanksgiving Songs, ECHO Prize, Neil Young, Arcade Fire & Celine Dion Together

Neil Young

Neil Young

Here’s the latest batch of news stories I’ve done for the Spinner AOL Huffington Post empire:

Japandroids were among the nominees for the ECHO Prize.

Neil Young has totally gone straight edge.

The tastiest songs for Canadian Thanksgiving.

Arcade Fire and Celine Dion team up to help shooting victim’s family.

 

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Ben Howard To Go Electric On Next Album

Ben Howard

Ben Howard

At least one half of the Team Risky Fuel household has identified Ben Howard as totally dreamy night time melancholy beach music, so there was a certain amount of swooning when he played a show recently in Toronto.

That swooning also resulted in a feature interview on Spinner about how his next album is going to be more electric.

To read it, go here.

 

 

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This Week In Music History: September 30 – October 6

Adam Ant & Kate Pierson

Adam Ant & Kate Pierson

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

In this edition we delve into the criminal pasts of B-52′s singer Kate Pierson and Adam Ant as well as bummer trip about the deaths of Woody Guthrie and Janis Joplin.

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

 

 

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