Live from Calgary and Edmonton

Performer: Our Lady Peace
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Our Lady Peace: Raine Maida (vocals); Steve Mazur (guitar); Duncan Coutts (bass); Jeremy Taggart (drums). Additional personnel: Michael Eisenstein. Recorded live in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Montreal, Quebec. Personnel: Raine Maida (vocals); Steve Mazur (guitar); Jeremy Taggart (drums). Audio Mixer: Richard Chycki. Recording information: Calgary, Alberta, Canada (01/27/2003-02/05/2003); Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (01/27/2003-02/05/2003); Effanel Music Inc., NY (01/27/2003-02/05/2003); Montreal, Canada (01/27/2003-02/05/2003). Photographers: Stacy McNeil; Dustin Rabin; Tanya Smith . Despite having mid-level success in the United States, Our Lady Peace are huge in their home country of Canada, and one listen to their first in-concert album LIVE makes it a lot clearer why Canucks are so crazy over this alt-rock quartet. Characterized by a post-grunge sound and an emotive singer in Raine Maida, who manages to avoid sounding like some Scott Stapp retread, OLP manages a nice fusion of swirling guitar and rumbling rhythms infused with an innate sense of melodicism. Live, these strengths come to the fore even more and are best demonstrated in songs ranging from the Stone Temple Pilots-like insistence of "One Man Army" to the Oasis-meets-Live stomp of "Superman's Dead." Casual fans also get their bell rung by the inclusion of American semi-hits like the ethereal "Naveed/Life" and hyper-catchy "Starseed." As for diehard OLP devotees, plenty of them made their presence known on this recording, enthusiastically forming a de facto chorus on faves like the anthemic "Innocent" and equally stirring "Is Anybody Home." LIVE is none too shabby a showing by a band that continues to fly under the American mainstream radar.

A survivor of the post-grunge alt-rock avalanche, Toronto's Our Lady Peace burst onto the scene with its tightly wound 1995 college-radio hit, "Starseed." The band went on to superstar status in its native Canada, while achieving modest success in the United States. Though an ill-received concept album (SPIRITUAL MACHINES) threw off some OLP fans, the ensemble, led by emotive singer Raine Maida, rebounded with 2002's GRAVITY and its popular anthem, "Somewhere Out There," proving that the group had longevity.

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