THE HIPPIE HISTORIAN

This year as I went to write down my top albums I was astonished to see that not just some but most of my favourite albums were actually...

December 2nd in London, Ontario marked the end of the Young Beauties and Fools tour for the Glorious Sons and what a fantastic ending it...

The Journey When Neil Young announced that he’d be playing a secret show for 200 people, our gut instinct was Omemee. Young had posted...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This past winter, I was given the opportunity to meet and interview Rob Baker of the Tragically Hip. After their tour in summer 2016, Rob...

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

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...

Ron Sexsmith is a badass. I can’t say I’ve heard him described that way before. He’s not a badass in the sunglasses-indoors kind of way...

Eating is perhaps one of the greatest pleasures of travelling. I think you can agree. Read on for my list of top five places to eat when...

Once again, music and novelty lovers from all over met up at Third Man Records in Nashville to check out Jack White’s record label, pick...

For many music lovers, Hatch Show Print posters are not just another piece of concert swag, they’re coveted pieces of art for their...

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,...

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

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....

Let’s hear it for the ladies! As today is International Women’s Day, I thought it was time to shed some light on five bad ass women in...