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Canadian indie rockers with a synth sheen and a high danceability factor

Arkells may have seemed fully formed upon arrival, but that couldn’t have been further from the truth. The Hamilton, Ontario quartet, formed at university by frontman Max Kerman and guitarist Mike DeAngelis, landed a Juno with their 2008 debut Jackson Square but that was just the jumping off point. With each new album, the group has expanded their sound and their world to impressive effect.

Jacksonville Square was very much a Canadian product, drawing on the homeland indie rock heroes of Kerman and his bandmates, from The Weakerthans and Constantines to Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene. Two years after its initial release, it won the band a Juno (aka the Canadian Grammys) for Best New Group.

Just a year after their Juno win, Arkells returned with Michigan Left and a slicker sound that took their pop-inflected guitar rock and made it shake and groove in all the right places, adding judicious 80s influences from the likes of U2 and INXS. The choruses were bigger, the hooks sharper and the band bagged themselves yet another Juno.

High Noon found the band partnering up with producer Tony Hoffer (Beck, Phoenix). The results were as joyously poppy and dancey as expected, pushing the band’s Springsteen worship into Killers territory and landing their biggest hit to date with Leather Jacket. Two more Junos followed.

With each consecutive release, the band pushed their sound into new territory and the awards kept flowing. Across 2016’s Morning Report and 2018’s Rally Cry, Kerman demonstrated that a focus on good times and danceability didn’t mean shying away from weighty themes like gun violence on American Screams and right-wing populism on Company Man.

In 2021, Arkells released their sixth studio album Blink Once.

Setlists

    1. 1.Oh, the Boss Is Coming!
    2. 2.John Lennon
    3. 3.Pullin' Punches
    4. 4.Tragic Flaw
    5. 5.I'm Not the Sun
    6. 6.Book Club
    7. 7.On Paper
    8. 8.Cynical Bastards
    9. 9.Dirty Blonde
    10. 10.Skin
    11. 11.And Then Some
    12. 12.Relentless
    13. 13.You Can Get It
    14. 14.Past Life
    15. 15.Knocking at the Door

  2. Encore

    1. 16.11:11
    2. 17.Leather Jacket
    1. 1.Come to Light
    2. 2.You Can Get It
    3. 3.People's Champ
    4. 4.Relentless
    5. 5.11:11
    6. 6.Quitting You
    7. 7.Skin
    8. 8.Hand Me Downs
    9. 9.Big Feelings
    10. 10.And Then Some
    11. 11.Past Life
    12. 12.Drake's Dad (Request Line Song, first time live since 2019)
    13. 13.Michigan Left
    14. 14.Oh, the Boss Is Coming!
    15. 15.Ballad of Hugo Chavez
    16. 16.Whistleblower
    17. 17.Dance With You
    18. 18.Years in the Making
    19. 19.9 to 5 (Dolly Parton cover)
    20. 20.Knocking at the Door

  2. Encore

    1. 21.My Heart's Always Yours
    2. 22.Good Luck, Babe! (Chappell Roan cover)
    3. 23.Leather Jacket
    1. 1.Past Life
    2. 2.You Can Get It
    3. 3.People's Champ
    4. 4.Tony Plays the Piano
    5. 5.Never Thought That This Would Happen
    6. 6.Relentless
    7. 7.11:11
    8. 8.Quitting You
    9. 9.Skin
    10. 10.Book Club
    11. 11.Big Feelings
    12. 12.And Then Some (Selected from the request call-in line, Max joined the callers in the crowd)
    13. 13.Dance With You
    14. 14.Whistleblower
    15. 15.Years in the Making
    16. 16.9 to 5 (Dolly Parton cover)
    17. 17.Knocking at the Door

  2. Encore

    1. 18.Good Luck, Babe! (Chappell Roan cover)
    2. 19.Leather Jacket
    1. 1.Past Life
    2. 2.You Can Get It
    3. 3.Tony Plays the Piano
    4. 4.Relentless
    5. 5.11:11
    6. 6.Quitting You
    7. 7.Big Feelings
    8. 8.Man! I Feel Like a Woman! (Shania Twain cover)
    9. 9.And Then Some
    10. 10.Whistleblower
    11. 11.Dance With You
    12. 12.Years in the Making
    13. 13.Knocking at the Door
    14. 14.Leather Jacket
    1. 1.You Make My Dreams (Daryl Hall & John Oates cover)
    2. 2.Relentless
    3. 3.Knocking at the Door
    4. 4.Tony Plays the Piano
    5. 5.You Can Get It
    6. 6.Leather Jacket
    7. 7.Man! I Feel Like a Woman! (Shania Twain cover)
    8. 8.How You Remind Me (Nickelback cover)
    9. 9.The Weight (The Band cover)
    10. 10.Fat Lip (Sum 41 cover)
    11. 11.Complicated (Avril Lavigne cover)
    12. 12.Run to You (Bryan Adams cover)
    13. 13.Quitting You (No microphone)
    14. 14.Good Luck, Babe! (Chappell Roan cover)
    15. 15.Dance With You
    16. 16.Years in the Making
    17. 17.Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen cover)

  2. Encore

    1. 18.Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (ABBA cover)

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