In Pitchfork’s review of 2004’s Action Pact, Alex Linhardt wrote, “Sloan is not anyone’s favorite band.” He’d obviously never been to a Sloan show. People are nuts for them. Sloan fans are obsessive, ...

Four guys. Ten albums. 20 years. The unlikely story of the band Sloan starts in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a college city in eastern Canada's Maritime provinces. It was there where four young musicians — ...