CultureO, Kaytranada: A Polaris Music Prize winner for the new CanadaCanada has a rich history of black music that’s been largely written out of our canon. Kaytranada leads a new canon.
CultureThe American fans who watched the Tragically Hip’s last exitIt wasn’t only Canadians who flocked to Kingston, Ont., for the Tragically Hip’s final concert
CultureOn the Tragically Hip’s last stop: ’This is carpe diem’Michael Barclay on the rock’n’roll spectacle of the Man Machine Poem tour
CultureHow we will miss Gord Downie and the Tragically HipWhat it means to the Hip — and to their fans — to tour and wave goodbye
CultureSarah Harmer on the Tragically Hip’s legacy—and laundryAfter decades of friendship, Harmer remains in awe of the band’s character, work ethic and sweat-drenched clothes
CultureWhen Midnight Oil met the Tragically HipLead singer Peter Garrett on how Midnight Oil tried to steal the Hip’s audience
ArtsWhy poets love Gord Downie and vice versaFor poet Damian Rogers no one combines the intimacy of poetry and arena rock’n’roll like Downie
ArtsJoel Plaskett on the Tragically Hip: ’Lucky in their presence’The Halifax singer/songwriter on the Hip in the Canadian landscape — pure and cool and weird
CultureOn the Tragically Hip’s ’golden thread’The Rheostatics’ Dave Bidini recalls playing with the Hip, and dispels the myth that Downie’s band never made it in the U.S.
CultureOn the Tragically Hip’s ’beautifully meaningful non-sequiturs’’Every mix tape I ever made had at least one Hip song on it,’ says the Weakerthans’ John K. Samson