Rare Americans are a
Canadian
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Slovak alternative rock
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band from
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. Th ...
,
British Columbia
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,
[Ilana Kaplan]
"Rare Americans Are The Pop-Punk Band With Eye-Catching Animated Videos"
''Spin
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'', July 29, 2022. most noted as
Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall o ...
nominees for
Breakthrough Group of the Year at the
Juno Awards of 2023
The Juno Awards of 2023 was a music awards ceremony that was held on March 13, 2023 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta.[Juno Awards of 2020
The Juno Awards of 2020, the 49th Juno Awards, was an awards presentation that was to be held at SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on 15 March 2020. The awards and associated events were cancelled due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pan ...]
, Ben Kaplan won the
Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award
The Juno Award for "Producer of the Year" has been awarded since 1975, as recognition each year for the best record producer in Canada. It was renamed the "Jack Richardson Producer of the Year" award in 2003, after Jack Richardson who was a noted ...
for his work on Rare Americans' "Brittle Bones Nicky" and
Mother Mother
Mother Mother is a Canadian indie rock band based in Quadra Island, British Columbia. The band consists of Ryan Guldemond on guitar and vocals, Molly Guldemond and Jasmin Parkin on vocals and keyboard, Ali Siadat on drums, and Mike Young on b ...
's "It's Alright".
"Junos 2020: the complete list of winners"
CBC Music
CBC Music (formerly known as CBC FM, CBC Stereo and CBC Radio 2) is a Canadian FM radio network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It used to concentrate on classical and jazz. In 2007 and 2008, the network transitioned towards ...
, June 29, 2020.
Members
Current members
James Priestner: Vocals, Guitar
Jared Priestner: Songwriting
Jan "Jongo" Cajaka: Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Trumpet
Duran Ritz: Drums, Percussion
Past members
Lubo Ivan: Guitar
Ginger Chen: Bass
Jeff Quin: Bass
Discography
Albums
Extended plays
Singles
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! scope="row" , "Moss Park"
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! scope="row" , "I vs I"
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! scope="row" , "Pay Me Back"
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! scope="row" , "Fuck You World"
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! scope="row" , "Garbage Day"
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! scope="row" , "Night After Night"
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! scope="row" , "Same Boat We Row"
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! scope="row" , "I Had it Coming"
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! scope="row" , "Hands Free"
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! scope="row" , "It Was You"
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! scope="row" , "Wake Up"
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! scope="row" , "Worm Is Gonna Turn"
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! scope="row" , "Let Go For Love"
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! scope="row" , "Hullabaloo"
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! scope="row" , "Baby Boy"
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! scope="row" , "Walkin' n Talkin'"
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, rowspan="10" , 2022
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, rowspan="3" , ''You're Not a Bad Person, it's Just a Bad World''
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! scope="row" , "Lose My Cool"
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! scope="row" , "Moving On"
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! scope="row" , "Drawing Swords"
, rowspan="6" , ''Songs That Don't Belong''
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! scope="row" , "Tremendous"
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! scope="row" , "Little White Lies"
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! scope="row" , "Rambo"
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! scope="row" , "Bruised"
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! scope="row" , "Fool's Gold"
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! scope="row" , "Milk and Honey"
, rowspan="14" , 2023
, rowspan="12" , ''Searching for Strawberries: The Story of Jongo Bongo''
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! scope="row" , "Money!"
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! scope="row" , "Stay Curious"
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! scope="row" , "2 U's"
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! scope="row" , "Good Eats"
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! scope="row" , "Northern Lights"
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! scope="row" , "Sunday Morning"
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! scope="row" , "X on You" (feat. Lil Meesha)
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! scope="row" , "Stupid Heart"
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! scope="row" , "Sadie Jane"
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! scope="row" , "Song For The People"
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! scope="row" , "Take It Right On"
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! scope="row" , "The Machine"
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! scope="row" , "Rat Race"
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! scope="row" , "Sway"
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! scope="row" , "The Human Animal"
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! scope="row" , "Young Minds"
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! scope="row" , "Lovers For A Night"
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, {{Left"Kansas"
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, {{Left"Fuck The Youth"
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, {{Left"Is There A Way Out?"
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, {{Left"Anomaly"
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, {{Left"The Walls"
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, {{Left"Kids These Days"
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, {{Left"Good To Be Young"
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, {{Left"Ghosts"
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, {{Left"Seashells"
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, {{Left"Drugs"
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, {{Left"What Are You Gonna Do Now?"
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, {{Left"Klondike Hotel"
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, {{Left"Hands & Blood"
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, {{Left"Deadly Shade Of Blue"
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, {{Left"I've Got A Friend In You"
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, {{Left"Bury & Hide"
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, {{Left"Love & Pain"
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, {{Left"Voices In My Head"
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, {{Left"Broken Road"
References
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Canadian alternative rock groups
Musical groups from Vancouver
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