State of the Confederation: Part 3

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.