{"id":479222,"date":"2026-02-16T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479222\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:24:09","slug":"why-2000s-canadian-indie-bands-are-having-a-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479222\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 2000s Canadian indie bands are having a renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The year might be 2026, but for fans of Canadian indie music, it\u2019s starting to feel a lot like 2005. Wolf Parade\u2019s I\u2019ll Believe in Anything has gone viral after making a dramatic appearance on Heated Rivalry, and Broken Social Scene\u2019s Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl recently went gold in Canada over two decades after its release. <\/p>\n<p>With the key players in the 2000s Canadian indie boom set to release new records this year, writers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelbarclay.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Barclay<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unabrose\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rosie Long Decter<\/a> tell host Elamin Abdelmahmoud why these veteran bands are connecting with younger generations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Today&#8217;s episode on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full discussion from today&#8217;s show on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-1349-commotion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBC Listen<\/a> or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.mgln.ai\/KEXoVG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">available wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Panel produced by Stuart Berman. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-479222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}