Wine Lips

It’s been one hell of a wild ride for Wine Lips.

Originally formed in Toronto back in 2015 as a part-time project between Cam Hilborn (vox, songwriter, guitar) and drummer extraordinaire Aurora Evans, Wine Lips quickly escalated into a full-blown, full-time, full-on international phenomenon. Their debut album took them across North America followed immediately by an intensive and unexpected tour of Hong Kong and China in 2018. They released their massive “Stressor” album the very next year (2019) to rave reviews and massive critical acclaim. Multiple tracks from Stressor charted across North American and European radio, while several songs ended up being featured in broadcast and Netflix series. Endless touring ensued.

Then 2020 happened. The band used their mandatory downtime to fully dedicate themselves to crafting their groundbreaking third full-length “Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party” (recorded by Simon Larochette at The Sugar Shack). The record was released in October 2021 and then shit really hit the fan. The international music press lost their collective minds, penning over 250 glowing features and super positive reviews spanning 35+ countries. At the time of writing, the album blew past 40 Million spins on Spotify alone. The vinyl release of MDSBP is currently in its 7th pressing with 9 different colour variants. The lead track “Eyes” has been licensed to a metric ton of films, series and video games including ABC’s The Rookie, Hockey Night In Canada and Population 11. Even more endless touring ensued, except this time the venues were huge and mostly sold-out.

The 2024 follow-up album “Super Mega Ultra” was an absolute beast. Recorded by Simon Larochette at The Sugar Shack in Ontario, the album packed 12 ramped-up supersonic ear-scorching auditory delicacies and racked up millions of plays. SMU showed an ambitious evolution of the band , exploring new thematic territory while firmly maintaining their signature psych garage punk rock panache. 

Which brings us to the new album TV Dinner slated for an Aug 2026 release on Stomp Records. These 13 new tracks have a laser focused urgency and undeniable intensity honed from relentless touring and experimentation. Punk rock, garage and psych collide in a glorious, swirling concoction that has come to define Wine Lips' beloved signature sound. 

"I wasn’t trying to take it too seriously or overthink anything which probably helped with a lot of the subject matter of the lyrics. I definitely took a bit more of a candid approach with the lyrics. I didn’t want the record to sound too polished, so we left a lot of mistakes and natural weird things that might normally be fixed in the mix. It’s the first time Aurora has taken a lead vocal role which is cool and her voice works well with the songs she sings on!" says Cam Hilborn (Vox/Guitar)

Warm up your microwave and tune into your fav show because TV Dinner is coming in hot!

Taxi Girls

Montreal’s Taxi Girls don’t so much arrive as they crash through the door, guitars first, voices raised, and something urgent to say. Formed in 2022, the all-female quartet have quickly carved out a space for themselves in the city’s ever-restless underground, channeling garage punk grit into something hook-heavy, immediate and unmistakably their own.

Their debut album Static captures that ascent in real time. It’s a record that hums with tension and release, where blown-out guitars meet sharp melodic instincts, and where dual vocalists Jamie Radu and Vera circle each other with a restless energy, trading lines, clashing perspectives, then locking together with intent. The effect feels instinctive rather than constructed, as if the songs are unfolding mid-conversation, half-confession, half-confrontation.

There’s a tactile sense of place running through the album, the kind you can almost hold in your hands. Montreal after dark, streetlights refracted on wet pavement, cheap beer gone warm, the quiet comedown after the noise. That atmosphere seeps into Static, grounding its punch and propulsion in something lived-in and recognisable, rather than nostalgic for its own sake.

Across the record, Taxi Girls lean into a palette that pulls as much from classic rock’n’roll attitude as it does from punk’s raw economy. Big choruses cut clean through the distortion, never losing their bite, while the band’s instinct for rhythm keeps everything moving with a sense of purpose. It’s a sound that nods to the lineage of The Donnas, Joan Jett or Bikini Kill, without settling into pastiche, driven instead by a clear sense of identity and momentum.

Lyrically, Static reveals a band unafraid to sit with discomfort. Themes of love, loss and mental health run throughout, threaded with reflections on postpartum depression and the strange gravitational pull of nostalgia. Yet the record resists collapsing under its own weight. What emerges instead is a throughline of self-realisation, a gradual turning outward, where vulnerability becomes a source of strength rather than retreat.

That tension between fragility and force is where Static finds its core. It’s a debut that feels both raw and deliberate, capturing a band in the act of defining themselves, not after the fact. There’s catharsis here, certainly, but also something celebratory in the way Taxi Girls push forward, claiming space and meaning it.

Having already shared stages with the likes of NOFX, The Hives and Billy Talent, and earning early support from figures such as Iggy Pop, Taxi Girls arrive at Static with momentum behind them. What the album makes clear is that they are not simply riding that wave. They are shaping it.

With Static, Taxi Girls step fully into focus. Loud, sharp, and impossible to ignore.

Métropole

En 2019, 4 amis d'une école secondaire de Repentigny décident de former un band de punk-rock alternatif francophone. C’est en 2023 que Métropole sort son EP éponyme. Parfois surréalistes, loufoques et même engagés, les textes de Métropole sont supportés par des guitares distortionnés, des mélodies accrocheuses, de la basse foudroyante et de la batterie explosive.