THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE LIVE @ LEE'S PALACE (20.11.09)All of a sudden I want to move out West. Holy Shit. I mean I've played their debut Hometowns around 100 million times. Its been a perpetual occurrence...Rural Alberta Advantage - Four Night RiderRural Alberta Advantage - Frank, ABRural Alberta Advantage - Drain the BloodRural Alberta Advantage - Edmonton
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Toronto based The Rural Alberta Advantage have some new upcoming North American tour dates. The band was not able to play at this year's CMJ because of a tour in England. The band re-released their debut album "Hometowns" earlier this year on Saddle Creek. The tour will...Click the link to read more
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Luxury Wafers Session -http://tinyurl.com/mlzv6yMP3: The Rural Alberta Advantage - "Don't Haunt This Place" - http://www.saddle-creek.com/sounds/RuralAlberta_DontHauntThisPlace.mp3
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Hot damn. Thank you Daytrotter. The RAA dropped in to record two new songs and rework two classics. So, make with the ole left click and head over to Daytrotter, peruse the ads and download tracks from the darlings of the Can-indie scene.In all honesty though, Nils, Paul and Amy have been working hard to get their music out there and Hometowns (review) is well worth the duckets you should be sh...
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Photo: Sound Proof MagazineShawn and I were sitting at a table in Brooklyn’s Littlefield (site of this weekend’s After The Jump Fest!) the other day when the topic of album of the year came up. I told him it was hands down the Rural Alberta Advantage. He said no. He said he [...]
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THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE LIVE @ LEE'S PALACE (20.11.09)All of a sudden I want to move out West. Holy Shit. I mean I've played their debut Hometowns around 100 million times. Its been a perpetual occurrence...Rural Alberta Advantage - Four Night RiderRural Alberta Advantage - Frank, ABRural Alberta Advantage - Drain the BloodRural Alberta Advantage - Edmonton
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Words By: Jonathan “Kos” KosakowNils Edenloff, Amy Cole and Paul Banwatt, who together comprise The Rural Alberta Advantage, occupied many nights of their 2005 lives at an open mic night in Cabbagetown, outside of Toronto. Three years later, the trio released their first album, Hometowns, and was soon after signed by Saddle Creek Records. The RAA’s new-found success allowed them to spend m
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The Rural Alberta Advantage continues Canada's impressive alt-legacy.
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These songs are confessional, but also propulsive, driving at you with speeding drums and howling vocals, even as guitars and keys lilt behind these louder sounds, filling the space with expansive haze.
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What are they putting in the water in Canada? Yet again the Canadians are spoiling us with another innovative and exciting release. After excellent albums over the last two years from the likes of Plants and Animals, Broken Social Scene, AC Newman and Sunset Rubdown, step forward Rural Alberta Advantage, from Toronto, with their debut Hometown. Although originally released independently last ye...
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I'm sorry but I don't have much time to post these days nor do I have much today either but these folks have a great album worth checking out if you like the sounds of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and Pavement.WebsiteMyspace
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Name any Canadian indie act of late, their sound is probably in here somewhere. High scoring rounds of spot-the-influence aside, the Rural Alberta Advantage drives & shouts & gets giddily garage-gangly.
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been following a lot of the sxsw twitter traffic and one band that has been mentioned, by trusted sources, quite a bit is the trio out of toronto, the rural alberta advantage. wasnt too sure what to expect from their 08 released, hometowns, but quick first impression is if you are a neutral milk [...]
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THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE LIVE @ LEE'S PALACE (20.11.09)All of a sudden I want to move out West. Holy Shit. I mean I've played their debut Hometowns around 100 million times. Its been a perpetual occurrence...Rural Alberta Advantage - Four Night RiderRural Alberta Advantage - Frank, ABRural Alberta Advantage - Drain the BloodRural Alberta Advantage - Edmonton
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Conducted by Capt. Obvious Obvious: So, what exactly was the advantage of growing up in rural Alberta? Edenloff: I guess the whole idea of it came after moving to Toronto. It wasn't until I left that I realized how much of an impact the experiences and memories I had growing up in Alberta affected me and the songs that I was writing. I guess it was then that I really started to embr...
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| 1 Don't Haunt This Place |
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| 2 The Ballad of the RAA |
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| 3 Frank, AB |
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| 4 Luciana |
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| 5 Rush Apart |
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