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COWBOY JUNKIES

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Toronto ,  Canada  ( 1986  – present) The Cowboy Junkies is a Canadian alt-country band formed by three siblings from the Timmins entertainment family (Margo Timmins, vocals; Michael Timmins, songwriter & guitars;  Peter Timmins , drums) plus  Alan Anton  on bass. The group formed in Toronto in 1986. The band’s name was simply a random choice as they approached their first ever gig, but it has come to perfectly represent their sound. (Some sources may credit Townes Van Zandt’s song “Cowboy Junkies Lament” as the source of the band’s name, but that song was written especially for Cowboy Junkies several years after they coined the name.)  The Trinity Session is perhaps their best known record, recorded live in a single day on a single microphone in a church in Toronto. This album also included a unique cover version of Lou Reed’s “Sweet Jane”. Reed reportedly liked the Junkies’ version of the song better than his own, and began performing their version in concert. None of

PEARL JAM

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Pearl Jam is an American  rock  band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band’s line-up has included  Eddie Vedder  (lead vocals, guitar),  Jeff Ament  (bass guitar),  Stone Gossard  (rhythm guitar),  Mike McCready  (lead guitar), and drummer  Matt Cameron , who has been with the band since 1998. Formed after the demise of Ament and Gossard’s previous band  Mother Love Bone , Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album  Ten . One of the key bands of the  grunge  movement in the early 1990s, Pearl Jam was criticized early on—most notably by  Nirvana  frontman  Kurt Cobain —as being a corporate cash-in on the  alternative rock  explosion. However, over the course of the band’s career its members became noted for their refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices, including refusing to make music videos and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having “spent much of the

THE STILLS

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada ( 2000  – 2011) The Stills were an indie rock band which formed in 2000 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band consisted of Tim Fletcher (vocals, guitar), Greg Paquet (guitar), Liam O’Neil (keyboards), Oliver Corbeil (bass) and Dave Hamelin (drums, vocals, guitar). The band released three albums, “Logic Will Break Your Heart” (2003), “Without Feathers” (2006) and “Oceans Will Rise” (2008), before splitting in 2011.  Paquet left the band in 2005, with drummer Hamelin replacing him as guitarist and Julian Blais replacing Hamelin as drummer. In 2010, Paquet returned to the band and Blais left, reverting the band to their original lineup.