Well, here we are, half a dozen issues into our rebirth and we’re getting great feedback from the masses. Thank you for reading and thanks for the time you’ve taken to write to use with your new releases and news. The theme in this week’s issue seems to be a leaning toward synth-pop. A coincidence or are we on the verge of a 1980s synth renaissance? Check out the tunes in our Absolutely Indie section below and see for yourself. Anyway, it’s onward we go….
Archive for Tragically Hip
Roxanne Tellier – Touring Murmuration Nation with Emily Saliers
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Amy Ray, Atlanta, Black Lives Matter, Bob Segarini, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don Saliers, Emily Saliers, Georgia, Hothouse Flowers, Indigo Girls, Jennifer Nettles. NRA, Jonatha Brooke, KT Tunstall, Living Colour, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Lyris Hung, Mod Club, murmuration, Murmuration Nation, Rachel Eckroth, Robert “Sput” Searight, Roxanne Tellier, Snarky Puppy, Standing Rock, Stephen King, Sugarland, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Tim LeFebvre, Toronto, Tragically Hip, Tristin Chipman, Watershed, Will Calhoun, Women’s March on November 19, 2017 by segarini
If you came of age in the 90s, you’ll likely remember Amy Ray and Emily Saliers as the Indigo Girls. Their music was the background music of the indie lifestyle, and indeed, they seemed to be everywhere, racking up Gold and Platinum records, receiving a Grammy in 1990 for Best Contemporary Folk Album, and becoming part of our mass consciousness, referenced in such diverse environs as Stephen King‘s Rose Madder, and the television series, Will and Grace, South Park, and The Big Bang Theory.
JAIMIE VERNON – BULLSOGRAPHY: Sneak Peek #1
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Aqua Duck, B-Girls, Bakersfield, Bigger Than Bowling, Bob Segarini, Brian Gagnon, Canadian Music, Cynthia Ross, DBAWIS, Deadlier Than Darts, Doc Rock & The Wild Bunch, Don't Believe a Word I Say, El Mocambo, Front 54, Gilmore's, Goddo, Gulf War, Hamilton, Haywire, Jaimie Vernon, Killer Dwarfs, Lee Aaron, Lee's Palace, Lundy's Lane, M.T. Head Express, Mike Thorne, Mort Ross, Moving Targetz, Mysonics, Niagara Falls, Oshawa, Players' Studio, Purple Onion, Russell Graham, Saga, The Kings, Toronto, Tragically Hip, Trooper on September 24, 2016 by segarini
With my ‘True Tales From a Cemetery Cop’ being released October 3 I’ve finally returned to finish writing the book I promised a year ago – the history of Bullseye Records of Canada.
JAIMIE VERNON – TRUE NORTH GLUTEN FREE
Posted in Opinion with tags Aboriginal Day, assassination, Beer, Bob Segarini, Bobby Gimby, Bruce Cockburn, Canada Day, Canadian Music, CBC, Celine Dion, DBAWIS, Dieppe, Doggie style, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Fete du Canada, FLQ, Fox News, Geraldo Rivera, Gordon Lightfoot, Hockey, Jaimie Vernon, Justin Bieber, Lockerbie, military, Nickelback, Ottawa, Parliament Hill, Peter Mansbridge, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, sex, Shania Twain, Sir John A. MacDonald, Snow, The Bells, The Five Bells, The Guess Who, The Trews, Tragically Hip, Vimy Ridge on October 25, 2014 by segarini
In the early morning aftermath of two tragic military assassinations in Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario this week America tuned in and saw a different kind of Canada.
Frank Gutch Jr: O Canada: A Nod to The Great White North— (and more of them goddamn notes)
Posted in Opinion with tags bill jackson, Bob Segarini, bobby gottesman, Caitlin Canty, Chloe Albert, Darrell Vickers, Dave Bidini, David Olney, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Gowan, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jaimie Vernon, Jane Gowan, Jubal Lee Young, Laurie Biagini, music videos, On a Cold Road, Pete Fidler, Pursuit of Happiness, Records, Rheostatics, Roxanne Tellier, Sergio Webb, Shade, Sloan, South of Bloor, Steve Young, The Extras, Thor, Tim Vesely, Toby Swann, Tragically Hip, Violet Archers on September 2, 2014 by segarini
I am a lost Son of Canada. I must be. I love Canadian bacon, though bacon it not really be (except maybe technically). I love Jennifer Dale, an actor who deserved much more than she has been afforded, respect-wise (I reveled in her work on Canadian TV and film during Comcast’s all-too-short span of including CTV and CBC on their cable lineups in the ’80s). I love Due South, one of the most creative and funny-on-so-many-levels series TV has ever created (the transition of Ray to Ray— David Marciano to Callum Keith Rennie— a work of pure writing craftmanship).
JAIMIE VERNON – CANADA DOESN’T LOOK A DAY OVER 145
Posted in Opinion with tags Aboriginal Day, Beaver, Bob Segarini, Bobby Gimby, British Empire, Bruce Cockburn, Canada Day, DBAWIS, Doggie style, Dominion Day, Don't Believe a Word I Say, fireworks, French, Jaimie Vernon, John A. MacDonald, Life's a Canadian Rock, Lightfoot, Moody Manitoba Morning, music, Provinces, Quebec, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, Records, Toronto, Tragically Hip on June 29, 2013 by segarini
July 1st is Canada’s 146th birthday. And unlike Amerka’s Independence Day, ours is a true birthday. It was on that day in 1867 that Prime Minister and Scottish whiskey guzzling champ Sir John A. MacDonald spread his legs and shat out a proclamation declaring the Province of 
Canada (Quebec and Ontario) plus New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to be, henceforth, bastard siblings. History would record any number of schools named in his honour.
Cameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – Oh, Canada
Posted in Opinion with tags A Primitive Evolution, Cameron Carpenter, Dave Bidini, DBAWIS, Die Mannequin, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Inie 88, Joel Plaskett, music, Nazareth, Shanghai Cowgirl, Sloan, The Bovine, Tragically Hip, Weakerthans on September 13, 2012 by segarini
As most of you know Canadian radio is forced by the Canadian Radio-Television And Telecommunications Commission (CTRC) to play a certain amount of music deemed “Canadian”. The regulation was put in place in the early seventies in hopes that we would build a Canadian star system. The system has been fought and debated since its inception and the rules and regs have changed over the years with more Canadian music than ever now being heard on our airwaves. As it stands now most new stations are forced to play upwards of 40% Canadian Content (Can-Con).
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 