Crown Lands (band)

Crown Lands is a Canadian rock music duo from Oshawa, Ontario. They are most noted for receiving two Juno Award nominations at the Juno Awards of 2021, for Breakthrough Group of the Year and Rock Album of the Year.
The band consists of vocalist and drummer Cody Bowles, and guitarist Kevin Comeau. Bowles is of Mi'kmaq heritage and identifies as two-spirit, while Comeau is Jewish, and the duo write partially but not exclusively from an activist perspective. They have stated that their name communicates a desire to reclaim the concept of Canadian Crown land, which is government-held land that was largely "stolen" from First Nations.
Formed in 2016, they released the EPs "Mantra" (2016), "Rise Over Run" (2017) and "Wayward Flyers Vol. 1" (2020) prior to the release of their full-length debut "Crown Lands" in 2020. The album was preceded by the single "End of the Road", a protest song about the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women whose video features narration by Tanya Tagaq.