Spinner.com — Filed under: 47 Second Review Amazon Cuff the Duke have always suffered from a bit of a Rodney Dangerfield complex in the Canadian music hierarchy. They don't have enough hockey-related songs to be as populist as the Tragically Hip, frontman Way... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — Canadian rockers The Tragically Hip are to be honoured with their own street in Ontario. more info

ContactMusic — Canadian rockers The Tragically Hip are to be honoured with their own street in Ontario The group will soon be able to drive down Tragically Hip Way in their native Kingston after city councillor Brian Reitzel won his campaign to score the tribute... more info

Altsounds — Canada's THE TREWS (http://t.ymlp184.net/ujbjyaiabqsadahuadawqsu/click.php) release their fourth full-length studio album, Hope & Ruin TODAY. The album is a level-raising evolution for the Toronto-based rock band with two gold records, ten top-10 ... more info

Said the Gramophone — The Tragically Hip - "Escape is at Hand for the Travellin' Man" "On those drives, they were so long. Through trees just like this, they remind me of it. I would just think about my mother dying." Jane C.... more info

Buffalo News, New York — As frontman with the Tragically Hip, Gord Downie is part performance artist, part poet and part rocker. Fronting that band, his closest kin is most likely post-Genesis Peter Gabriel. The Hip's music is simpler than Gabriel's, but Downie's performance... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — The Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie doesn't see his solo albums as a side project. more info

Said the Gramophone — The Hoof & the Heel - "Fireworks" [video, buy]. Tragically Hip - "Fireworks" [buy]. Animal Collective - - "Fireworks" [previously, buy]. Three albums, from three different years, and the best song on each is titled "Fireworks". In every case,... more info

Spinner.com — Rumors that iconic Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot died raced across Twitter earlier today, and soon found their way onto several newspaper websites. However, the stories -- which quoted Lightfoot's longtime friend and fellow music legend... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — TORONTO - A master class in songwriting was offered up by two of the greatest Gords our country has arguably ever offered up - folk icon Gordon Lightfoot and Tragically Hip rocker Gord Downie - on Thursday night at the George Weston Recital Hall. more info