didnt know he was playing, the caribou album is pretty good though

hmmmn... is this a list canadians off thread? is it? cos no-one said Bryan Adams. but the arcade fire are great, in a slow burny lovely lovely kinda buzz.

anyone on the secretly canadian label?... ahem

To resurrect this topic... I was just in Canada and my mate there has become super-proud of his native land of late due to the large amount of great bands. He's a big Constantines fan, they live near him. Yesterday I listened to The Pink Mountaintops, from Vancouver, pretty cool. Also The New Pornographers from Vancouver (front woman is Neko Case). Apparantly a band called Sloan are a national treasure.

Anyone else like The New Pornographers? Canadian power pop act...

just been listening to Stars, they're from montreal and "Set Yourself On Fire" is glorious.

After all Canada's good work, along comes Daniel Powter....jesus.

Stars are playing the Sugar Club soon. yay. I think we forgot the two Canadian's who actually BRING a lot of indie music to Irish people - Alison Curtis and Jenny Hewson. Must be something in those polar ice cap melted waters.

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Nothing random about it, the guys a pretty good at what he does, able to write good stuff outside of one specific area, even if he has occasionaly visited the dark side by contributing to hot press. I miss the river of soul too.