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Canadian bands I should check out?

harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
edited May 2007 in Other Music
I've been hearing rumours of a lot of great bands coming from Canada. I'm already obsessed with Arcade Fire. Can anyone list some more?
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  • EarthgirlEarthgirl Posts: 695
    Tragically Hip
    Bare Naked Ladies
    Blue Rodeo

    are three great canadian bands to check out..
  • senninsennin Posts: 2,146
    http://www.iheartmusic.net/serendipity/index.php?/archives/95-The-33-hottest-bands-in-Canada.html
  • caifan82caifan82 Mexico City Posts: 321
    The Tea Party!

    Their last album isn't very good, but all others are great!
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Sam Roberts

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCClbR1ZORo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyx5qMjNaUg
  • musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    yeah, definitely check out the canada indie rock scene. For the first time since Kurt's death i am really really into a music scene full force.

    Canadian bands to check out:
    Broken Social Scene
    New Pornographers
    Stars
    Hidden Cameras
    Dears
    Islands
    Godspeed you black emporer
    Wolf Parade
    Metric
    Feist
    Final Fantasy
    Unicorns
    Black Mountain
  • off_the_recordoff_the_record Posts: 843
    one of the best bands out there right now: Great Lake Swimmers
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  • Tek MoneyTek Money Posts: 642
    off_the_record wrote:
    one of the best bands out there right now: Great Lake Swimmers

    YES!!! Ongiara is an amazing album, and most of it was recorded here in London at the Aeolian Hall. I dig it.
    Cock Fight.
  • EarthgirlEarthgirl Posts: 695
    MrBrian wrote:
    Sam Roberts

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCClbR1ZORo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyx5qMjNaUg

    i forgot to ad Sam in.. he's amazing. and also another fav of mine. 54-40 and i have to say Sloan also.. very good bands
  • Tek MoneyTek Money Posts: 642
    Haha. I didn't realize there were two threads that are the same. I was wondering what happend to my post... it's in the other thread.
    Cock Fight.
  • bestsanebestsane Posts: 131
    Hey, Nickelback has sold close to 15 million albums in the US for their latest 3 albums and no one mentions them?! Haha....
  • ZanneZanne Posts: 899
    bestsane wrote:
    Hey, Nickelback has sold close to 15 million albums in the US for their latest 3 albums and no one mentions them?! Haha....

    Prolly no one wanted to admit that Nickelback were Canadian
    Just me
  • Matty BoyMatty Boy Posts: 421
    Pride Tiger... Just kidding. Beyond Neil Young and some Guess Who we've got nothing to offer.
  • ZanneZanne Posts: 899
    Matty Boy wrote:
    Pride Tiger... Just kidding. Beyond Neil Young and some Guess Who we've got nothing to offer.

    Oh come on.. Bryan Adams.. Alanis Morrisette.. Celine Dion lol

    Just kidding. I do love the Tragically Hip tho. Going to see them this weekend in Chicago.

    Peace
    Just me
  • lampshade27lampshade27 Posts: 35
    The Sadies are the greatest band around...and they are Canadian. They are for sure the best live band I've ever seen. If you get the chance, go see them. While you're waiting buy "In Concert Volume 1"!
    Listen to the Sadies.

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  • leavin hereleavin here Posts: 145
    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    yeah, definitely check out the canada indie rock scene. For the first time since Kurt's death i am really really into a music scene full force.

    Canadian bands to check out:
    Broken Social Scene
    New Pornographers
    Stars
    Hidden Cameras
    Dears
    Islands
    Godspeed you black emporer
    Wolf Parade
    Metric
    Feist
    Final Fantasy
    Unicorns
    Black Mountain

    You read my mine, check those canadians out! BSS is great and so is Feist, she has her solo and she plays in Broken Social Scene.
    Vancouver 09/02/05, so far so good
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Ahh, I love these threads! Here are some brilliant bands/artists from the Great White North that everybody should check out...if you haven't already:

    The Tragically Hip
    Wintersleep
    Arcade Fire
    The Weakerthans
    Cuff the Duke
    Feist
    Matt Mays & El Torpedo
    The New Pornographers
    Sarah Harmer
    The Constantines
    Sam Roberts
    Joel Plaskett
    Rheostatics
    Kathleen Edwards
    Great Lake Swimmers
    Cowboy Junkies
    Ron Sexsmith
    Julie Doiron
    Broken Social Scene
    Chris Brown & Kate Fenner
    C'mon
    Lowest of the Low/Ron Hawkins
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    our lady peace
    Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
    Sammi: Wanna just break up?

  • Housing JimHousing Jim Posts: 644
    Lots of people have said it already but The Tragically Hip.

    I was reccommended them by someone on here a few weeks ago and so I took a listen and now I absolutely love them!

    Good luck finding any of their records in stores in the UK though!

    They're a million times better than Arcade Fire!
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  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    metsfan531941 wrote:
    our lady peace
    Oh my GOD. I LOOOOVEEE OLP!!! Love love love them. I have every cd. I was reading this to see if anybody else mentioned them.
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
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  • itsevobabyitsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    caifan82 wrote:
    The Tea Party!

    Their last album isn't very good, but all others are great!
    totally agree. edges of twilight & interzone mantras Phoarrrr!!
    Look Alive,
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  • itsevobabyitsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    oh and def new pornographers, broken social scence and stars :)
    Look Alive,
    See These Bones
  • chris05chris05 Posts: 347
    The Novaks are a great Canadian band.
    Who cares if the world is going down the toilet? Eddie Vedder got his mojo back!
  • carsoncarson Posts: 39
    constatines
    ryan masters



    they both can be found via myspace. enjoy!
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