Best of: Top 10 Canadian Bands from 2014

Another great year for music? Check

Another great year for Canadian music? Check

Here's a list of the 10 awesome Canadian artists that appear on my Favourite 60 Songs of 2014 list and my Favourite 25 Albums of 2014 list.

Public Animal "Careful" and "High Pony"

The Balconies "Boys and Girls", "The Slo" and "Do It In The Dark"

Lowell "The Bells", "Cloud 69" and "Palm Trees"

Little Foot Long Foot "Woman" and "Mess"

Mounties "Headphones" and "Pretty Respectable"

The New Pornographers "Dancehall Domine" "Brill Bruisers"

The Pack A.D. "Big Shot"

The C'Mons "Only Ghost" They're currently on hiatus, but they're one of two great discoveries at 2013's Indie Week (along with Little Foot Long Foot). I love their EP Places and am hoping for great things from them upon their return.

Death From Above 1979 "Trainwreck 1979"

Stars "From The Night"

The Pack A.D. bring Vancouver crunch to The Horseshoe

You can't have a rock band without a drummer. And you can't have a rock band without a guitarist. But a bass player? More and more the answer seems to be no, you don't need a bass player.

The Pack A.D. from Vancouver rolled into Toronto's The Horseshoe on Saturday March 8 to melt faces. They played a great set, including a Cramps cover and an encore of Split Enz' "I Got You".

I suggest you look at the photos I took and listen to the songs below and either pretend you were there to take in the rock first hand or relive the experience.

Here's a gaggle of tunes they played:

"Deer" from 2010's We Kill Computers,

"Haunt You" from 2011's Unpersons,

"Positronic" from Unpersons,

"Big Shot" from their new release Do Not Engage,

"Cobra Matte" from We Kill Computers,

"Battering Ram" from Do Not Engage,

Set closer, the amazing, "Sirens" from Unpersons.

Do Not Engage The Pack A.D.

The Pack A.D. are a guitar-drums duo from Vancouver who rock. Their latest release Do Not Engage (their fifth!) is out now and here are some tunes from it:

"Big Shot"

"Battering Ram"

I wanna see them when they play Toronto's Legendary Horseshoe Tavern on March 8.