Head Tale

So much Hip coverage today…

• A Wild Winding Beginning (The Whig)
• One Nation Under Gord (Globe & Mail)
• How We Will Miss Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip (MacLean’s)
• Watch Canada’s Biggest Rock Band Say A Dramatic Good-bye (New Yorker)
• What Tomorrow Brings: The Incredible Story of How “Wheat Kings” Came To Be (CBC Music)
• The Politically Hip (Council of Canadians)
• The Hip’s Biggest Fan: Behind HipMuseum (CBC Music)
• The Hip Unites Us All (Globe & Mail)
• Gord Downie’s Final Act (NY Times)
• Hip Check: A Tragically Hip Listening Party of All Their Albums (CBC Music)
• How I Learned To Love The Hip and Still Be Punk (Vice)
• Gord Downie Leaving Behind More Than His Music (CBC)
• How The Hip Were Always Ahead By A Century (Toronto Star)
• Gord Downie Calls Out Justin Trudeau During Hip’s Final Show (Global)
• The Ten Best Tragically Hip Covers (CBC Music)
• Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Tragically Hip Lyrics (CBC Music)
• The Band All of Canada is Obsessed With, Explained (Vox)
• Nearly 12 Million Canadians (1/3 of entire country) Estimated to Have Watched Concert (CBC Press Release)
• I got linked by the CBC for a post I did in 2010 about the Golden Rim Motor Inn which is name-checked in The Hip’s “The Luxury”!

…and most importantly: Sunnybrook Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research (Please Donate!)