Primal Note Studios + Venue in York, ON

NEW AGE DOOM:
Consisting of core duo Eric J. Breitenbach and Greg Valou, Vancouver-based New Age Doom is a genre-defying project that thrives on spontaneity, experimentation, and intensity. Their music blends genres like drone metal, progressive rock, jazz, dub, and global styles. Their latest album, “There Is No End,” features Norway’s Tuva Hellum Marschhäuser on lead vocals and leans into a more melodic direction while retaining the band's signature freewheeling chaos. In 2021, their collaboration with Lee “Scratch” Perry resulted in a poignant and critically-acclaimed swansong and tribute for the late dub legend.

FUZZED OUT:
Patrick Pentland, guitarist of Sloan, has been a mainstay in Canadian rock for over three decades. Though he has penned more than 50 songs with Sloan, many of his compositions remained unreleased, urging Patrick to branch out. Fuzzed Out represents his venture into solo performances, showcasing acoustic renditions of his extensive career’s work, with a loud twist. This May, he embarks on a brief tour with New Age Doom across Ontario and Quebec.

AAWKS
Barrie-based fuzz rockers AAWKS is the product of four acid casualties united by a love for high fantasy, psychedelics and heavy rock music, alongside some guest musicians who wander in to add their own flair. Forming in 2019, AAWKS’ latest collection of songs showcases an evolved form of the band, one whose collective decades of experience meets the members’ desire to create fuzzy, spaced-out stoner rock.

Weak Knees
Reminiscent of indie-sleaze rock’s mid-aughtie glory days, Weak Knees sway and cruise with effortless charm and a hazy sense of familiarity. On debut single “Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bitch (Hannah)” the five-piece delivers through dueling Strokes-esque guitar lines that build into a cathartic, garage-rock climax.

Joan Smith & the Jane Does
Smith, she of “towering pipes and a remarkable dirty guitar tone” (torontomusicreviews.com), and guitarist/producer Tom Juhas form the Jane Does – a female fronted dance rock machine with cutting vocals that amp up to the edge of sanity, pulsing rock beats and relentless guitars which remind noted radio personality and music historian Jeff Woods of ‘Queens of the Stone Age and Stevie Nicks’.

Lucid Smog Disorder
Lucid Smog Disorder is a rock band from Toronto, Canada. They are known for their loud, in-your-face attitude, aggressive yet campy punk tunes, and Doris' pessimistic but hopeful lyrics. While they are still a rather small band, every show they play they get the crowd on their side and rock even the smallest clubs like it's Shea Stadium.