MIXTAPE: canada, eh?

listening to the tea party these couple of days, i figured i ought to talk about the great canadian music scene that's going on.

although i'm a sucker for british bands myself, i have to admit that it has been an incredible few years for canadian music.

i really don't know that much about canadian music, so maybe give that a google, you will get lots of hits and information. while you are doing that, i'm just gonna throw bunch of my favorites at you. but of course, no mainstream stuff like nickelback, simple plan, or our lady peace, not even bedouin soundclash.

i absolutely love wolf parade and metric. wolf parade is from montreal, and metric is from toronto!

wolf parade

metric

more well-known bands like arcade fire, broken social scene, and tokyo police club, have all been doing well these years, hitting it big with impressive albums really. to me they are pretty close to mainstream, just not as over-played on the radio.

broken social scene

pony up! and tegan and sara are my favourite canadian indie pop groups. i started listening to pony up! because of anthea, aussies love them lol. tegan and sara are from alberta, and they are identical twins! and seriously, how cute are their music and lyrics?

pony up!

tegan and sara

some great musical groups from vancouver. woop! the new pornographers is pretty well-known among vancouverites, there are too many members i gave up trying to remember exactly how many long ago. black mountain is pretty awesome. check out pink mountaintops if you like black mountain, both lead by Stephen McBean, but pink mountaintops is more experimental.

the new pornographers

black mountain

skinny puppy is from vancouver too! i would say the genre is electro-industrial, very unique and totally wicked.

skinny puppy

constantines deserves a mention simply because i went to see them live a few months ago lol. they are from ontario.

i adore major maker, so fresh and so much fun. i already talked about (no, not really) them on my blog earlier this year -> major maker video

although not from this decade, i just have to talk about neil young, he is too amazing and influential not to be mentioned. his album "harvest" is still one of my favourite albums of all time. he is a true legend, enough said.

neil young

the tea party's album "the edges of twilight" is what i'm listening to this week. they disbanded in 2005. too bad because they were amazing.

the tea party

hope you guys and dolls enjoyed this. give it up for canada! weeeeeeee!