Magma
Boredoms
Grabba Grabba Tape
Therapy?
Whipping Boy
Kerbdog
Japan special addendum:
Shonen Knife
Otoboke Beaver
Mono
Phoenix
The Knife
AC/DC
Sigur Ros
dEUS
My Bloody Valentine
well they’re from the US, hence my question!
hmm, trickier! most of my Canadian favs seem to be solo artists
Press Club (Aus)
The Besnard Lakes (Can)
Nap Eyes (Can)
round out the top 5 with The Go-Betweens and The Clean
Kraftwerk
Can
The Avalanches
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Wolf Parade
Dirty Three
Sunset Rubdown
Boredoms
Women
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Japandroids
My Bloody Valentine
The Beths
Alvvays
ABBA
Broken Social Scene (Can)
The Beths (NZ)
Lankum (IRE)
Solo artists would be loads of choice for me but bands not so much. I’ll go with
Air
Kraftwerk
Lost Girls
Mew
Deus
Birds In Row
Godspeed
Mew
AC/DC
Metz
Women
Gilla Band
Sigur Rós
Океан Ельзи
Clementine Valentine (fka Purple Pilgrims)
The Go-Betweens
The Limiñanas
Shizuka
Horses don’t have nationalities
They’re freeeee