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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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MMVA 2012: Carly Rae Jepsen Day

Carly Rae Jepsen and Katy Perry at the MMVAs

Carly Rae Jepsen and Katy Perry at the MMVAs

Sarah was assigned to cover the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards on Sunday for AOL Music Blog.

This was mostly fine because it was basically a Carly Rae Jepsen coming out party and she’s relatively onside for the CRJ.

She was somewhat less onside for the latest crop of Much VJs (who are these people?), but whatcha gonna do? MuchMusic is firmly demographic television these days.

To read her recap, click here.

 

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The Connection Between Twin Peaks And Contemporary Music

Metric are on the cover of AUX magazine's first issue

Metric are on the cover of AUX magazine’s first issue

The folks at AUX have launched a fancy new iPad magazine that you can cop by clicking through to the iTunes store here.

There’s all kinds of quality stuff in there, including a pretty in-depth story by Sarah about bands who’ve been affected by David Lynch‘s mind-melting ’90s television series, Twin Peaks.

Bands like Cults and Silent Drape Runners give their take on where to find a great cup of coffee.

 

 

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Hanson Discuss The Merits Of Star Wars And Star Trek

You can take the girl out of the Star Trek conventions, but you can’t take the Trekkie out of the girl. There’s really no other reason that Sarah started talking to Hanson about Star Trek and Star Wars when they were in town to promote their new album, Shout It Out.

In honour of May The Fourth, she shared their conversation with AOL Music Blog. You can check it out here.

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Game Of Thrones’ Best And Strangest Musical Tributes

Jon Snow

Jon Snow

Game Of Thrones season two debuts tonight and for anyone who likes swords, knights, fighting, dragons and incest it’s pretty much going to be the best night ever.

There are a lot of people who are totally into GOT and this is clearly evident by all the weird and wonderful video tributes to the show/books that can be found on the internet.

As such, Aaron compiled a bunch of the best music related ones for Spinner and the resulting article “Game Of Thrones: 14 Bizarre And Amazing Musical Tributes” is just the sort of thing Tyrion Lannister would pay a couple gold dragons for.

To read the article, click here.

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