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We have a release date for the Gord Downie/Bob Rock album–and a couple of new songs, too. Listen here.

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Bob Rock, Gord Downie, Tragically Hip

For years, there were rumours about Gord Downie having made a solo album Canadian superproducer Bob Rock. If it did

Gord Downie’s legacy, five years after his death

October 17, 2022October 20, 2022 Amber Healy 0 Comments Cancer Research, Chanie Wenjack, Downie Wenjack Fund, Glioblastoma, Gord Downie, Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Secret Path Week, Sunnybrook, The Secret Path, The Tragically Hip, Tragically Hip

Take a moment and remember where you were when the news came out on October 18, 2017. We knew it

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Random music news for Friday, October 14, 2022

October 14, 2022October 15, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Blink-182, Bruce Cockburn, Ghosts, Joey Armstrong, John Candy, Mark Hoppus, Music Festivals, Music Lessons, Ozzy Osbourne, Ryan Reynolds, SWMRS, Tragically Hip, Vinyl

No, no, no. Just…no. Just skip right to music news for October 14, 2022. Ye, Ye, Ye. What’s wrong with

Attention Tragically Hip fans: Grassroots GEDFest raises funds for cancer research in Gord Downie’s memory

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 Amber Healy 0 Comments GEDFest, Gord Downie, Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund, Tragically Hip

October 17 will mark five years since we lost Gord Downie after a nearly two-year fight with glioblastoma, an aggressive

Ongoing History of New Music

Ongoing History Daily: Yet another version of The Hip’s Fully Completely

September 13, 2022September 13, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Box Set, Fully Completely, Tragically Hip, Vinyl

The most popular album in the Tragically Hip catalogue is Fully Completely from 1992. It’s sold well over a million

Hip fans, get ready to add to your vinyl libraries

August 14, 2022August 14, 2022 Amber Healy 0 Comments Anniversary, Box Set, Canadian Walk of Fame, Chanie Wenjack, deluxe edition, Fully Completely, Gord Downie, Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund, Heksenketel, Lieve Prins, Radio Show, Reissue, So Hard Done By, The Hip, Tragically Hip

The next few years will be big ones for Tragically Hip fans, as the band announced this week not one,

The Tragically Hip to be inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame

August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2022, Barbara Frum, Deborah Cox, Director X, Humanitarism, Tragically Hip, Walk of Fame

The Tragically Hip have been added to the list of inductees into Canada’s Walk of Fame for 2022. Not only

This could be the most Canadian thing you see this Canada Day

July 1, 2022July 2, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada Day, Canadian, Tragically Hip

This is pretty Canadian: The Tragically Hip, performing at a Canada Day concert featuring a little kid imitating Gord Downie

A report on The Hip’s Gord Sinclair playing in Ottawa

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Gord Sinclair, Neat Coffee Shop, Ottawa, Ross MacDonald, Tragically Hip

[Another concert report from Ottawa correspondent Ross MacDonald. – AC] On Friday night Neat Coffee Shop continued its Summer Shed

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Random music news for Wednesday, May 18, 2022

May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Dave Krusen, iPod, Johnny Lydon, Limewire, Muppets, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Richard Beland, Spotify, Tragically Hip, Travis Barker, White Label Vinyl, Wire

As an introvert myself, I can identify with this. Now some music news for May 18, 2022. Limewire is back–but

David Milgaard, the subject of The Tragically Hip song “Wheat Kings,” has died

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment David Milgaard, Fully Completely, Gail Ann Miller, Tragically Hip, Wheat Kings, Wrongful Convictions

I grew up five miles from the Stoney Mountain Federal Prison in Manitoba. In fact, I used to play minor

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