Off The Record

If you haven’t heard of this band and love nothing more than putting on some great music after a long day’s work and sparking up a joint or sipping on your favourite cocktail then look no further. You’ve found them. Mother Tongues has been on the Toronto music scene for the past 5 years and is made up of: Lukas Cheung, Charise Aragoza, Konrad Karczewski, Nick Kervin , Hannah Bussiere Kim.

It was a love of everything from 60s French...

SPRINTS are a four-piece garage-noise band based out of Dublin, Ireland. They are made up of Karla Chubb on vocals, Sam McCann on bass, Colm O’Reilly on guitar and Jack Callan on drums.

The band is pretty new, having formed in late 2019. Just in time to get a few shows and songs out before the global pandemic hit. However, what is very interesting about these guys is that in that short time they gained quite a bit of notoriety, get...

If you live in Toronto and frequented music venues like The Horseshoe Tavern, or even just have the local radio station playing in the background at home or your place of work, then you’ve undoubtedly heard the catchy melodies of the pop-rock quartet: Jane’s Party. If you haven’t had a chance to see them live, I highly recommend it: they put on a great show and will soon be performing on the stage again.

The band is made up of Jeff...

The Damn Truth is made up of Lee-la Baum (lead vocals/guitar), Tom Shemer (lead guitar/vocals), PY Letellier (bass/vocals) and Dave Traina (drums/vocals).

They have been around for the better half of a decade , and Now or Nowhere is their 3 full-length album. Their sound is kind of timeless - if I didn’t know about them and heard it on the radio I would think they are one of the great bands of the classic rock era. And their new al...

Luis Felber has been involved in England’s music scene for a long time, playing in tons of bands, in various genres from punk rock, with his band Turbogeist to psych rock with Shuga.

He is also one of the founders of Young Turks Records, now known as Young. If the name sounds familiar that’s because they have some pretty notable acts on their roster including The XX (and with that Jamie XX) and FKA Twigs.

However, since the end of ...

Miesha Louie has been making music for over a decade now and as the band name suggests, has always been the main driving force behind it. Miesha and the Spanks, has gone through many lineup changes  over the years, but Miesha seems to have found the perfect musical partner in drummer, Sean Hamilton – who’s been with her for the past five years. When setting out to make this EP, Miesha and Sean initially wanted to tone back the...

Tunic formed around 2012, after the band’s founder David Schellenberg – on vocals and guitar - was fired from another band he was in for not being good enough on bass. This acted as a catalyst for David to start his own project, going for a sound inspired by the likes of Quicksand and Superchunk. In 2016 Tunic released their first EP Disappointment followed by another EP Boss in 2017. Since those releases, Tunic has been touring pr...

Tiger’s Jaw have been together for well over a decade now since starting their career in Scranton, Pennsylvania back in 2005. In that time they have put out and handful of Eps and 6 studio albums - the latest one being "I Won't Care How You Remember Me", which dropped on March 5, 2021 on Hopeless Records.

I got to chat with the band’s frontman Ben Walsh – who has been in the band since the beginning. Ben and I chat about the new al...

The members of Dead Poet Society went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and when they initially formed in 2012 or 2013, but without their current frontman Jack Underkofler – the band, according to Jack sucked (his words, not mine). Apparently there were even memes going around Berklee about them being the worst band in the school and Jack, who’s best friend was the drummer in the band in those early days, convinced his fri...

LTtheMonk grew up in Beckenham, a small town in Bromley – one of the Boroughs of London in the UK. Music was always a big part of his life, but he fell in love with Hip Hop when we stumbled upon Twista’s “Sunshine” music video while channel surfing at the tender age of 7 – something just clicked and he knew right then that he needed to become a rapper.

When it came time to apply for colleges, LT knew North America would give him th...

Yester Daze is made up of three members: Brandon McShad on GTR and lead VOX, Zach Lemay on bass and Matt Ware on the drums. The guys originally got together when Brandon hired Zach and Matt as session musicians for his solo project, but once the spark between these three ignited and the music became heavier and louder, they quickly decided that this new direction the music was going in needed a new band name, and so in 2018 Yester ...

The Toronto-based powerhouse, Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs have been tearing up stages across North America with the likes of Fidlar, The Dirty Nil, Frank Turner and Billy Joe Armstrong’s The Longshot, to name a few.

“Real One” is the band’s third full length album, and while the first two were already great, this is simply better – the band have all matured as musicians, the sound is fuller, richer and they managed to capture tha...

Chastity is the brain-child of Brandon Williams, the band’s frontman and lyricist. Over the last six years, Williams has put out an EP and two full-length albums.   

So far in 2021, Chastity has released one single, a cover of Third Eye Blinds “Losing a Whole Year” – which is very fitting with COVID 19 essentially cancelling the 2020.  I caught up with Brandon over the phone, which is why the audio on this one isn’t ...

Toronto-based Indie Pop duo TandM is made up of lead singer and guitarist Maxine Beck-Sinderby and drummer Thomas Franklin – T for Thomas and M for Maxine – therefore TandM.   

The two met serendipitously at a music studio in high school and became fast friends, and eventually a couple. They both entered into York university for music, where their songwriting skills would grow and they would put out their first EP Reflect...

Bike Thiefs is a Toronto-based post-punk trio made up of bassist Kris Pandierada, drummer Andrew Fasken and guitarist/vocalist Marko Woloshyn. 

The band have been together for over 5 years and in that time have released three EPs, as well as a full-length album titled "Leaking", which they released this year after signing with Montreal-based label Stomp Records. 

I caught up with the guys via Zoom to chat about their albu...

Partner is made up of Josée Caron on guitar and vocals, Lucy Niles on bass and vocals and Simone TB on drums. The band have been active for a number of years now, Josée and Lucy met at university in New Brunswick in 2014, and by 2020 Partner has put out two full-length albums and one EP. They gained notoriety in 2018, when they won the SOCAN Signwriting Prize for their song “Playing The Field”.

Their first album In Search Of Lost T...

Sterling Fox has been in the industry for a long time now and has worked with some top talents, like Madonna, Avicii and Adam Levine to name a few. However, in 2018 Fox decided that it was time to put out his own music, without the limitations of the pop machine and started putting out tracks under his new moniker Baby FuzZ. As diverse as his music is, the lyrics are a singular and hyper self aware narrative with strong political a...

Originally, this project started Scott Xylo, a British producer & Songwriter of Jamaican descent befriended Welsh guitarist Adam Martin (ADEEMUS) whilst working together at a coffee shop in Leicester, UK. The duo originally teamed up to work on new Scott Xylo material, but they would eventually add Irish-Nigerian vocalist Demigosh after meeting at a gig in late 2019.

Officially being a trio since February of this year, Shadeemu...

Dayseeker vocalist Rory Rodriguez and drummer Mike Karle announced their new project Hurtwave earlier this summer. For this endeavour, the pair traffic in synths and the output is decidedly different than that of their main band. The band, which is signed to Spinefarm Records, have released three singles so far and plan to release another four to complete their first EP Night Therapy 1.

Rory and I chat about how Hurtwave started, a...