Inhabiting as they do the mid-point between the bleary-eyed, fiercely American rock of The National and the heart-on-sleeves modern emo of Saddle Creek label mates Bright Eyes, The Rural Alberta ...

In a likely first for Chicago, both opener Julianna Riolino and band the Rural Alberta Advantage noted the crowd’s silence. The audience at the Lincoln Hall show, though, took these quips as a ...

After a successful first year in 2025, the Whitby Music Fest is returning to its home city for its second edition from June ...

2 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 15 3 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere In this electrifying episode, Bob Barth's One Night Stand goes LIVE from Los Angeles, featuring ...

Better than: Almost everything else protected by Canadian content laws. It takes a lot of balls to play an acoustic cover of “Eye of the Tiger.” Two years ago, when the Rural Alberta Advantage first ...

The Rural Alberta Advantage has become one of the most successful Saddle Creek Records bands, outside of their big three — Bright Eyes, Cursive and The Faint. They’ve done it through constant touring ...

For the past couple years, Paper Bag Records has released a covers compilation as a free download. Last year’s comp had everyone from Born Ruffians to You Say Party covering Madonna’s True Blue, but ...

and Timothy Griffin After 14 hours of BrooklynVegan shows on Wednesday with barely a break (Emo’s and then Swan Dive), and while BBG was holding down a stage at Emo’s again, we returned to Swan Dive ...

The Japanese art form of kintsugi uses gold to strengthen and rebuild shattered ceramics. For Nils Edenloff, the lead singer and songwriter for the Alberta, Canada-based rock band The Rural Alberta ...

“Last, but in no way least, was Rural Alberta Advantage, who played their last NYC show of 2009. If you can believe it, the trio’s percussive elements are highlighted even more live than on their ...

Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...