I don't really like the term indie. It's used as a genre term, yet it says nothing about the music. Rather, it is a term defining the state of the band. So, if an indie band signs to a major label but keeps their sound, it's no longer appropriate to call them indie, but none of the other genre terms quite fit. Even if we wanted indie to be a term describing the sound, there is too wide a variety under the indie umbrella for that to be the case. I think it'd be good if we, in general, stuck to terms that attempted to describe the qualities of the music, rather than the status of the band.
And it's true, there's some great music coming out of Canada lately. A number of bands mentioned in this thread are bands I already listen to and enjoy:
Broken Social Scene
Feist
The New Pornographers
Neko Case
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
Arcade Fire
The Besnard Lakes
Tegan and Sara
I don't think Metric has been mentioned, but I enjoy them quite a bit as well. (I could continue listing bands, but I'll stop there).
One of the more interesting aspects of all this Canadian music is how much of it actually centers around Broken Social Scene. A number of the other bands/people mentioned in this thread are
related to Broken Social Scene through one or more connections.
Also, Polyphonic Spree was mentioned earlier in the thread and I should thow my support their way as well. Very enjoyable
