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Toronto, Canada

Toronto-based trio The Rural Alberta Advantage (Nils Edenloff, Amy Cole, and Paul Banwatt) play indie-rock songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed, the equally depressed, the city’s slow growth and the country’s wild rose, but mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta.

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  • andrea_verin

    If I had known this band existed in 2010 I would have rushed to their uk gigs. can you please come back . please. <<< This :<

    4 Jun 11:26am Reply
  • zignash

    new album, please!

    4 Apr 11:21pm Reply
  • Provashanty

    Best drums <3

    14 Feb 5:15pm Reply
  • IndieFolkRadio

    Indie / Folk Radio - Bringing you a continuous mix of the nicest indie and folk tunes - http://open.soundrop.fm/s/WbqGgJ03gquKjV6V

    8 Feb 2:00pm Reply
  • lilyellowblue

    they've become my soundtrack for visiting the places I grew up. Really hauntingly amazing stuff.

    17 Jan 9:08pm Reply
  • crawlpalmetto

    Oh stop whinging. The Radiohead quote is probably correct. This band, however, are amazing live, play at close quarters, don't overcharge to assuage their guilt, and they fucking rock. Atoms for peace boo hoo.

    12 Jan 10:55pm Reply
  • IdrisKor

    The drummer in this band >>>

    4 Nov 2012 Reply
  • crawlpalmetto

    Brilliant brilliant brilliant band. Love them dearly.

    24 Aug 2012 Reply
  • speedy122787

    Hometowns and Departing are my soundtrack for when I travel to Canada to see the New York Rangers play.

    15 Aug 2012 Reply
  • Sythedum

    >Motion_Cried >"Radiohead only did two-and-a-half good albums in their whole career" >owmysides.png

    14 Aug 2012 Reply
  • EllSmiRip

    more music, and come to America.

    7 Aug 2012 Reply
  • StormandStatic

    v v ...what?

    31 Jul 2012 Reply
  • funereal_waif

    those magnificent mountain guys brought me here.

    22 Jul 2012 Reply
  • Motion_Cried

    We will only get 30 good songs from this band because of how shitty the infrastructure is in the record industry. They don't pay artists to write songs as much as they pay them to perform them. Sure, that means we get to see them every year and a half if we want to pay, but the prices are gouged and there aren't any new songs. Back when albums were cheap and plentiful, The Beatles would do ten albums in ten years. Bob Dylan has more good songs than most people will ever try to find. Meanwhile, Radiohead only did two-and-a-half good albums in their whole career. Weezer's music fell off after they sold out on their third album. Coldplay and The Strokes debut albums are bombshells, but they can't even write their own style with the New York Elitist bullshit staining them. As such, bands like The Silversun Pickups, The Black Keys, and Vampire Weekend are already passed their prime trying to get another hit out. They'll be 30 years old by their third album. Hopefully it's still good.

    6 Jul 2012 Reply
  • swamp_inside

    good band

    27 Jun 2012 Reply
  • anitazhou

    v same, saw them at sound of music and they were by far my favourite thing that day!

    19 Jun 2012 Reply
  • jcrb1995

    Just saw these guys Saturday night at Sound Of Music Festival in Burlington. They were amazing!

    18 Jun 2012 Reply
  • TooManyDans

    Be nice if they came back to the Uk or released a new album. Seems ages since Nation of Shopkeepers

    1 Jun 2012 Reply
  • BooksFuturama

    North Star really sounds like the Antlers

    29 May 2012 Reply
  • RYVITA-G

    If I had known this band existed in 2010 I would have rushed to their uk gigs. can you please come back . please.

    17 Apr 2012 Reply
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