The Rural Alberta Advantage
Hometowns

Spotting influences on this Canadian band’s winning debut doesn’t take much work: “Luciana” could easily pass as an outtake from Neutral Milk Hotel’s ...

The Rural Alberta Advantage hails from the great land of Canada; home of maple syrup, Moosehead Beer, curling, and one of the greatest indie music sce...

Lo-fi roots-tinged indie rock is what The Rural Alberta Advantage are all about.The rawness of both the performance and the wonderfully ragged power o...

The Rural Alberta Advantage burst onto the US music scene with Hometowns, an album wrapped in soft synth chords and popping drum beats that's been ant...

When the Rural Alberta Advantage first released Hometowns on their own in 2008, it sure took off in a hurry. After being picked to be spotlighted in t...

The Rural Alberta Advantage’s compelling sound on Hometowns, their re-released 2008 debut LP, is majorly indebted to the astounding skill of drummer P...

It's not just a clever name. The Rural Alberta Advantage may hail from Toronto, but the group's frontman, Nils Edenloff originally hails from a few pr...

Talk about a whirl of hype. Many people have been listening to The Rural Alberta Advantage for a good year now. Whether that was through legal or ille...

The Rural Alberta Advantage begs for Neutral Milk Hotel comparisons-see Paul Banwatt’s nasal shout, or the ubiquitous fuzzed-out acoustic guitar-but t...

Over the course of the past 10 or so years-- from Neutral Milk Hotel to Arcade Fire to Bright Eyes-- winking detachment has ceded an increasing amount...