Our Lady Peace, SMSHNG HRTS

Emerging from Toronto in the waning years of Nirvana’s Top 40 dominance, Our Lady Peace was essentially Canada’s attempt to out-smash the Smashing Pumpkins, with snarling-but-warm guitars nipping at the heels of songwriter and frontman Raine Maida’s Billy Corgan-esque, nasal howls. The band is currently on the road celebrating the 20th anniversary of its sophomore album Clumsy, which produced a hit title track and sold enough copies to get the band significant airplay outside its home country. Even if you haven’t been following OLP’s career into the 21st century — their most recent album, 2012’s Curve, was hardly met with screamingly positive reviews — this tour will be focused on the deep cuts from that 1997 record, which you likely still have on cassette somewhere.