Rural Alberta Advantage

Mariposa Gets Feist, Tegan and Sara, Rufus Wainwright for 2023 Festival

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2023

Orillia, ON's Mariposa Folk Festival has announced its 2023 lineup, taking place at Tudhope Park from July 7 to 9. This year's festival is...

Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Crown Lands, Lights and MAUVEY, the Rural Alberta Advantage, Shania Twain

PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2023

Keep your head up, your crown is falling! It's finally February, and amid the bleak mid-winter, Canadian artists are celebrating a fresh —...

The Rural Alberta Advantage Add More Canadian Dates to 2022 Tour

PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2022

The Rural Alberta Advantage, notably not from Alberta, will be paying their namesake province a visit, as well as their actual home provinc...

Relive Field Trip 2022 in Photos, Including Peach Pit, Lucy Dacus and Kurt Vile

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2022

Nearly every festival this summer is coming back from a forced two-year hiatus thanks to the pandemic, but Field Trip also sat 2019 out, wh...

The Rural Alberta Advantage Expand 2022 Tour into Western Canada

PUBLISHED May 4, 2022

Fresh off the release of new EP The Rise, folksy indie rock trio the Rural Alberta Advantage are hitting the road with some new Western Can...

Canadian Musicians Keep the Cassette Alive

Show & Tell

PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2022

The cassette revival hasn't become as ubiquitous as the vinyl boom, but it remains a thriving subculture, and the preferred format for many...

Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Kathleen Edwards, Faouzia, PUP, the Rural Alberta Advantage

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2022

Instead of placing Saran Wrap over the toilet bowl or sticking a fish on someone's back, for this day of fools, we have once again compiled...

The Rural Alberta Advantage Take Their Percussive Indie Rock to New Heights on 'The Rise'

PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2022

The return of the Rural Alberta Advantage is upon us. The Toronto-formed trio of Paul Banwatt, Amy Cole and Nils Edenloff are back today wi...