Saturday 31 October 2009



4 for the weekend (+1) 10•31•09

The Rural Alberta Advantage: Hottest band in Canada (photo: Patrick Leduc)

The Rural Alberta Advantage: Hottest band in Canada (photo: Patrick Leduc)

Like leaves falling from trees, and smashed Jack-o-Lanterns littering damp and windy streets, the arrival of November is a  tell-tale sign that the year is quickly drawing to a close, and we’re in the midst of a season change: year-end list season.

Thing kicked off a little early yesterday, but they did so in style and with a Canadian bent as Matthew over at i (heart) music unveiled the fifth edition of his annual Hottest Bands in Canada poll.  This was the second year Matt’s asked me to participate, and I was more than happy to oblige.  Sadly, though, I have to report that only 4 of my 10 choices made the list.  Even more sadly, I have to report that I completely left out the band that ended up capping the list for no other reason than I kinda, uh, forgot to put them on my list.  Te band in question, The Rural Alberta Advantage, was prominently featured on QBiM’s 2008 year-end list, and have gone on to have an amazing 2009.  I think I was just being too 2009-centric when building my list that I didn’t look back far enough, but the truth is that there has been so much fantastic Canadian music released in the last couple of years that it’s really hard to peg down just 10 artists as the hottest (as I read through the final list, there were so many acts there that I had to cross off in order to get my list down to 10).  In the end though, we’re all winners because of teh wealth of talent out there for us to enjoy.

So for this week’s 4FTW, I thought I’d recap the 4 bands from my list that made Matt’s final tally, and throw in the #1 band as a special Halloween treat.  Happy haunting, ghouls and boars!

MP3: Lightning Dust “I Knew”
Myspace: Lightning Dust
 MP3: Giant Hand “Coming Down From the Mountain”
Myspace: Giant Hand
MP3: The Wooden Sky “Oh My God (It Still Means A Lot To Me)”
Myspace: The Wooden Sky
MP3: Ohbijou “Black Ice”
Myspace: Ohbijou
MP3: The Rural Alberta Advantage “Rough and Tumble”
Myspace: The Rural Alberta Advantage





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