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Elliott Brood had the unfortunate luck of hooking me with what’s become one of my favourite songs. “Oh Alberta” is, in purely academic terms, an awesome little ditty. It’s a catchy banjo driven ode the provinces of Canada. It’s campy, nonsensical and more fun than your most fondly remembered children’s song. Everyone I’ve played it [...]

There’s a truly spectacular class of independent music coming out of Canada, and it’s so frustratingly genre agnostic and post-everything that to even bother labeling it is an exercise in futility. Toronto duo FemBots are often lumped into some quasi-fictitious indie-folk genre, and that’s an absolutely uncomfortable fit. The duo of Dave MacKinnon and Brian [...]