Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
The success of Broken Social Scene, Feist and Arcade Fire may have killed Canadian music’s international rep as a pop-culture punch line (see: Dion, Celine) but any viable scene needs fresh blood. As such, an eclectic new generation of musicians have picked up the proverbial torch and marched across the borders that the early-2000s Can-indie explosion blew apart.
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Canadian indie music was a fledgling concern at the turn of the century, forcing bands like Metric and the Stills to leave their native land. But the postmillennial rise of music blogs and file-sharing suddenly allowed smaller-market bands to reach big audiences.
This was best exemplified by the Canada’s indie rock collectives: Vancouver’s New Pornographers, Toronto’s Broken Social Scene and Montreal’s Arcade Fire. Though the Pornos broke through first, it was BSS and Arcade Fire — with their sprawling offshoots, side-projects and associated artists — that truly took Canadian indie music to the world.
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It may be easily forgotten in our current Age of Feist, but the turn of the 21st century was not kind to Canada’s international musical reputation. The fledgling maple music industry had found its footing in the late ’80s and early ’90s with bands like Sloan, Tragically Hip and Blue Rodeo. But unlike Alanis, Sarah and Celine, these great Canadian indie/alternative hopes couldn’t quite make it across the border.
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