THE HIPPIE HISTORIAN

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...

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...

Scattered across Ontario like little islands on a lake, a number of historic music venues pack the punch. Nestled in beach towns, big cities and gritty side...

When the live broadcast for The Grand Ol' Opry moved from The Ryman Auditorium to the Opryland Theme Park in 1974 (latimes.com), it wasn't long before the wh...

It's not that King Tut's Wah Wah Hut is a particularly cool-looking venue. It's not that it's that old-- only being built in 1990. However, it's undeniably...

In the late 1800s, if you walked down Grosevnor's Street in Manchester, you'd come face to face with an institute for the deaf and the dumb, proudly written ...

The Boston Music Room stands proudly sandwiched between a rowdy pub and a larger sister venue. Between the two, you might not even notice as you walk down a...

Whales: they’re big, they’re smart and they’re…surprisingly adept musicians. Considered to have one of the most complicated song patterns in the animal king...

Gabby here! I wanted to let you guys know that I’ve been writing content for two other music websites: Geeks & Beats and The Spill Magazine. You can see all ...

Few things get my memory going like food. I love that a certain taste (or smell) can transport you back in time to a memory you can almost touch it’s so real...

“It’s easy to want to do something and be paralyzed.” Mike Downie says this to me on the phone. He’s referring to non-Indigenous Canadians and it’s a sentim...

In 2009, my boyfriend and I went to our first concert together: The Tragically Hip at London’s Rock the Park. Part of the We are the Same tour, this concert ...

If you have your wits about you, the Charlottesville riots are a lesson right in your face: racism is not dead. It’s alive and well (and if you have your wi...

For music fans, diving into the biographies of their favourite band can be a hobby or a musical rabbit hole that makes you realize how completely small the m...

Remember a few posts ago when I said Josh Homme was a touring member of The Screaming Trees which connected him to the Seattle grunge scene? Well…there’s mor...

Chris Cornell once said in an interview (and I’m paraphrasing here) that the Seattle scene was different from other music scenes like New York where bands wo...

The car glides easily down a long, gravel path before sliding into a parking space. Before me, a gorgeous columned home (if you can call something this big a...

I’ll set the scene. In fact, chances are it’s been set for you before. It was February of 1968 at The London Ice House (well actually, it was called Treasur...

Deep in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, from Memphis to Vicksburg to Helena, Arkansas all the way to the Yazoo River, a rural tradition was born. Born ou...

There’s nothing quite like keeping it in the family. When it comes to the music business, there’s no shortage of sibling duos and trios. Read on for seven m...