The Tragically Hip Archives - Music Life Magazine

Miss Emily has ‘The Medicine’ You Need With Stellar, Sublimely Soulful New Album

November 22, 2025 Jim Barber 0

By Jim Barber There was a moment, captured on video, when the brilliantly inimitable, multi-award-winning vocalist/songwriter Emily Fennell, aka Miss [,,,]

PHOTO GALLERY: Canal Days – Night 2 – Port Colborne, ON – July 30, 2022; The Sheepdogs, Gord Sinclair, and Derek Miller

August 6, 2022 Joel Naphin 0

Canal Days – Night 2 – The Sheepdogs, Gord Sinclair and Derek Miller Port Colborne, ON July 30, 2022 Canal [,,,]

Church House Blues is a Confident, Assertive and Powerhouse Statement from Shawanda

April 16, 2020 Jim Barber 0

After more than a decade as a rising star on the country music scene and firmly established in her second [,,,]

Matthew Good Digs Deep on New Album – Moving Walls

March 18, 2020 Jim Barber 0

One of the most effusive and honest of Canadian musician/singer/songwriters, Matthew Good has never hesitated to wear his heart on [,,,]

Long-time Pals Workman and Slean Collaborate on New EP and Short Tour

March 11, 2020 Jim Barber 0

For first 10 or 15 minutes of the interview, it seemed like more of a conversation between award-winning, and highly [,,,]

New Skydiggers Album Influenced by Trials of Life and The Tragically Hip

December 19, 2019 Jim Barber 0

Music can help and heal and broken heart – this much is true. And it’s not just for the listening [,,,]

Dillon and Headstones Give No ****s on New Album – Peopleskills

November 7, 2019 Jim Barber 0

Hugh Dillon is refreshingly no-nonsense in everything he does. He does not suffer fools lightly and is delightful devoid of [,,,]

Kingston’s Emilie Steele & The Deal Release Boldly Original and Highly Entertaining Self-Titled EP

July 24, 2019 Jim Barber 0

In a live setting, Emilie Steele & The Deal are about as infectiously buoyant and entertaining as you could hope [,,,]

Practically Hip live at Manny’s Place – Brantford, Ontario – October 20, 2017

October 31, 2017 Paul Barrie 0

Practically Hip Manny’s Place Brantford, Ontario October 20, 2017 Editor’s Note: Although we normally don’t cover tribute bands, we, at Music [,,,]

Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie passes away after battle with terminal brain cancer

October 18, 2017 Joel Naphin 0

Gordon Edgar Downie February 6, 1964 – October 17, 2017 The family of Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie announced this [,,,]

Sloan’s Murphy Talks about Anniversaries, Supergroups and Democracy

September 13, 2016 Jim Barber 2

For 25 years, the Canadian quartet Sloan has been entertaining fans throughout North America with its unique blend of memorable, [,,,]

Tim Hicks Excited for Fans to Hear His New Music – Tour Coming to Belleville July 20

July 1, 2016 Jim Barber 0

Tim Hicks had been a working musician since he was a teenager. He was proud of the fact that he [,,,]

Health scare gave rocker Kim Mitchell a new lease and new appreciation for life

May 24, 2016 Jim Barber 4

It was not the best way to begin an interview with Canadian rock legend Kim Mitchell, but the subject needed [,,,]