THE HIPPIE HISTORIAN

Well, well, well, how are you doing my fellow social isolators? I'm finding this week a lot of people are getting a little down as the social distance gets t...

Picture this: It's January of 2017 and the United States are divided as Trump is inaugurated. All across the country, people are concerned about what Trump's...

Weird times we're living in, eh? I've spent my week working from home with my day job as a tourism officer, amazed by all the innovative ways that our local ...

Well pretty much every concert on my musical horizon has been cancelled this week and while I totally understand the legitimacy of protecting our vulnerable ...

My friend Ben from Smile Case released an album last week. Go check it out! It's great and super weird. . . which got me thinking about other weird stuff I l...

Great news for music lovers in Ontario, or dare I say, Canada! The iconic El Mocambo music venue will be lighting up its neon palm tree once again when it op...

Recently Ryan and I started re-watching The O.C. from the very first episode of the very first season. Right from the first episode we started reminiscing how...

Anybody who knows me knows that today is a VERY exciting day because it's the beginning of a tour featuring two of my favourite bands: Black Pistol Fire and ...

I'm a day late, I know! Sorry guys. This week's playlist is ANGRY and political. Rage Against the Machine tickets went on sale last week and since then I've...

Ticketmaster. Likely when you read that name, it ignites some sort of reaction in you. Is it negative? Most likely. Maybe you've bought tickets that seemed r...

Well, well, well. Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and you're probably either saying, "yes!", "fuuuuuck" or "I'm broke". I'm kidding. . . sort of. That...

As we speak, The Glorious Sons are making their way through the United States like a banshee. Starting in Harrisburg and currently moving into California, th...

Woohoo! It's the first official playlist of February 2020. Can you believe it's already FEBRUARY?! Me neither. I've been drawn to some slower tunes this week...

This past Thursday, Facebook released a report outlining how concert-goers are using social platforms (particularly ones owned by Facebook) to find concerts,...

Happy Friday Jr! Can I get a chicka-chicka-yeah? That's what I thought. The past two days in my neck of the woods we've FINALLY seen some sun. It's been such...

As someone who frequently travels to see my fav bands, I often get questioned on why I would do that. Why go see a band way down in Nashville when they're fr...

It’s Thursday! That means it’s time for a new playlist. Whoot! Sharing new songs with new people is quickly becoming one of my favourite parts of this blog. ...

Well, well, well. . . or as the French would say, bien, bien, bien. Okay, to be honest, I don't think that translation really works. That would be more like ...

Hey-o! It's Thursday and that means another bangin' playlist from yours truly. Okay I don't know if I'd call it bangin' but it's chock-full (is that the phra...

For me, the album dropped when I was just four so it’s a little crazy for me to call it an album for my generation but nonetheless I loved it then and I love...