The Canadian Invasion

| The Canadian Invasion |

Be sure to check Under The Radar's current issue on "O' Canada".
Music in 2005 is definitely the year that Canada made an enormous presence, thanks to the success of the Arcade Fire's album Funeral from last year. It opened the floodgates to the current wave of the Canadian music scene.

Here's the breakdown of the whole Canadian music scene:
Vancouver:

The New Pornographers mp3: "Use It"
Destroyer mp3 download: "An Actor's Revenge"
Black Mountain mp3 download: "Druganaut"
PiANO

Calgary:
Tegan & Sara (they bounce back forth from Vancouver to Montreal)

Feist

Guelph:
Constantines mp3: "Love in Fear"

Ontario:

A Northern Chorus mp3 download: "The Shepherd and the Chaffeur"
Russian Futurists mp3 download: "Paul Simon"

Nova Scotia:
Sloan

Toronto:
Bell Orchestre
K-OS
Stars
Metric mp3: "Poster of a Girl"

Broken Social Scene QT vid: "Almost Crimes"
Death From Above 1979
Peaches
The Hidden Cameras
The Most Serene Republic mp3 download: "Content Was Always My Favorite Color"

Montreal:
Arcade Fire QT vid: "Wake Up"
GodSpeed You! Black Emperor
The Unicorns mp3: "Tuff Ghost"

Wolf Parade mp3: "Shine A Light"
We Are Wolves
The Dears mp3: "Summer of Protest"
The Stills