The City Streets are a Canadian independent rock and roll band from Edmonton, Alberta. After self-releasing their debut full-length These Things Happen in 2005, they have followed up with the critically acclaimed full-length Concentrated Living and supported the album with two North American tours in 2008.
"Concentrated Living" entered !earshot, Canada's national campus radio chart, at No. 44 in November and also received a record number of plays on CJSR-FM, Edmonton's campus radio station.
"The Jazz Age" is the band's third full length album was critically acclaimed after its June 2010 release. The album received a 4/5 star review from the influential Toronto weekly Eye Magazine.
Winter Lightning was recorded with Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Godspeed You Black Emperor) at Hotel2Tango in Montreal and released simultaneously with 'Sawdust & Rum' which was recorded and produced by the band themselves in a cabin in Nova Scotia. Winter Lightning was released on vinyl and Sawdust & Rum on CD.
Other releases include the EP's 'Peacemaker' with Myrol and 'Decline of the West'. The group's forthcoming 6th full length 'Pretenders' is slated for an early spring 2013 release.
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“A city on whom plenty held full hand,
For riches strewed herself even in her streets;
Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,
And strangers ne’er beheld but wondered at.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We had hardly got out of the streets of Bangor before I began to be exhilarated by the sight of the wild fir and spruce tops, and those of other primitive evergreens, peering through the mist in the horizon. It was like the sight and odor of cake to a schoolboy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)