Yellow Brit Road

Filling in 2 hours of CIUT, we had brand new tunes, review new albums by Johnny Marr, Tricky and Gurriers, review the live show by Gorillaz with excellent support from Deltron 3030 and Little Simz, and we catch up with Jeremy Gaudet of Kiwi jr. ahead of their hometown show at Longboat Hall in Toronto last week, to talk about their newly released album Blowin' Up. We also had some live music fr...

On last week's CIUT show, I caught up with Jeremy Gaudet, singer and guitarist in Toronto based indie rock band Kiwi jr.! One of my favourite guests that I've been having on the show since 2022, Kiwi jr. have been on a steady rise up. Now on their fourth album, Blowin' Up , Jeremy phoned in to chat about the new album's complex and darker tone, channelling a rock n' roll spirit...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we bring you more coverage from Second Summer Festival 2026, catch up with Winnipeg's finest new shoegaze band sundayclub to talk about their new self-titled debut album and we review Gorillaz' transcendent live performance in Toronto last weekend. We've also got fantastic new releases on the show! Music this week by Michael Kiwanuka , Lambrini Girls...

Winnipeg shoegaze band sundayclub are a product of their hometown. Hailing from Winnipeg's small but thriving alternative scene, the band have been making a name for themselves with a heartfelt debut album, their self-titled , out on Paper Bag Records . We caught up with Courtney Carmichael and Nikki St. Pierre, the driving musical force behind sundayclub, just after their set at Loveless Fest...

As part of Second Summer Festival 2026, we caught up with rising Montreal post punk band Ribbon Skirt ! Looking back on a year that saw their debut album Bite Down (2025) get shortlisted for the Polaris Prize and has taken them all around the world, the band reflect on their musical style, breaking the mould, singer Tashiina's strong lyrical themes of Indigenous life and taking Ribbon Skirt&#3...

Packed show today on the Yellow Brit Road! We bring you reviews from seeing The Charlatans live in Toronto, review the new Pulp documentary, What Do You Do For An Encore? We've got live performances and reviews from Second Summer Festival in Toronto last weekend and joined Montreal post punks Ribbon Skirt for a live session recorded at the Monarch Tavern during the festival. We also looked ahe...

Coming live to you from Canada's biggest campus radio station, CIUT at the University of Toronto! I sat in for a two-hour show of new releases, live shows and such: we talked upcoming (and some now-past) shows by The Charlatans, Lip Critic, Yard Act and more, and we were joined by co-founder of Project Nowhere , Desiree Das Gupta to talk about the festival taking place across downtown Toronto from...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we review Peter Hook and the Light's Toronto show on the 25th anniversary of their 2001 album Get Ready ! We also bring you live highlights from Reading festival, Lauren phones in from Leeds fest to bring us the boots on the ground report and some of her favourite acts at the festivals this year, and we are joined by Brendan McCarney, the artistic director and co...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we're rested and back from Toronto Folk Festival, so I have to tell you all about the best music I caught over on Ward's Island last weekend! We also review Getdown Services' new album Massive Champion, look ahead to Reading Festival, one of the biggest moments of the UK music summer, and celebrate New Order's 2001 album Get Ready, which turned 25 on Thursday. We...

He was born a day before 9/11. He is an alcoholic, a diabetic with a string of chronic conditions, anxiety and a sense of civic activism in his native Manchester, he's only 19 and he's taken the world by storm. Meet Jim E. Brown , the internet's new favourite sad English teenager. He likes 3 bands: Coldplay, Phish and Kraftwerk, and the world has been drawn to his downbeat post punk music, singing...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we have some eclipse-related chat and music, discuss the state of music journalism in light of brutal layoffs by Veeps at major indie magazines, play you some of the best in up-and-coming music in the UK and Ireland lately, and are joined on the show by 19-year-old Mancunian boy wonder Jim E Brown for a chat recorded before his show in Toronto. Music this week by...

Jules Henry believes music should be fun. It is a principle written all over his musical project Super Plage , which started in 2019 in Montreal. We caught up with Jules at Osheaga Festival this year to talk about his music, collaborating with friends, opening the main stages at Osheaga, his latest single about the energy and community he felt when attending protests to save Montreal's historic mu...

It's Osheaga weekend! Yellow Brit Road brings you boots-on-the-ground coverage from our favourite Canadian music festival with reviews and updates, and live performances from many of the artists here that also played at Lollapalooza festival over at Chicago this week. We're joined backstage by Super Plage, a funky Montreal-based musician who opened the River Stage at Osheaga on Friday. And some ne...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we review new albums by Charli xcx and Yard Act, it's our Osheaga preview and we're joined by Natalie from the Toronto-based rock band Loviet! We caught up with Natalie after Loviet's set at NXNE back in June. Music this week by The Pipettes, The xx , Tricky , Charli xcx , Yard Act , Jetstream Pony , Lava La Rue , Black Bordello , Wet Leg , Keo , Knats , Robo , L...

Good afternoon, Canada! The Yellow Brit Road is now on your airwaves in broad daylight: 1 in the afternoon! Join us for our first daytime show, as we throwback to Razorlight's huge 2006 album, which turned 20 last week. We also review Muse's huge comeback album, The Wow! Signal, and seeing them live last week, when they brought their unique live spectacle to Toronto and Quebec City. Also, I manage...

Nova Twins are your favourite rockstars' favourite rockstars. For close to a decade now, the London rock duo have been changing what it means to make guitar music, conjuring up layered, interesting and innovating new sounds with their army of pedals. While their 2020 debut album, 'Who Are The Girls?' introduced the girls to the world, by the time their second album, the bulletproof 'Supernova' rel...

The final Yellow Brit Road in the Sunday 8 PM slot! Starting from next week, the Yellow Brit Road will move to a daytime radio slot, Thursdays from 1-2:30 PM. This does mean we won't have the post-watershed slot to play explicit music uncensored anymore... so we made the most of it tonight ;) In other parts of the show, we also are also joined by the incredible Nova Twins, who were so kind to do a...

Cardiff's bubbliest, most energetic and irreverent punk rockers Panic Shack dropped one of my favourite debut albums last year with their self-titled album . Covering lyrical ideas as far ranging as women's trouser pockets, running personal bests, buying toothpaste, eating disorders and working class roots, all with a sense of fierce fun and their tongue firmly in cheek, the album felt like a cele...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we celebrate 20 years of the Hot Chip album The Warning, ponder Charli xcx's latest blink-and-you'll-miss-it release, cover new music from across the UK and Ireland and are joined by Cardiff's most energetic punk band, Panic Shack , who stopped by for a little chat on their debut North American tour last month. Music this week by Hot Chip , Charli xcx , Bloc Part...

Hailing from Vancouver, The Hausplants are a band with a truly international sound: between singer and bassist Anna Zeleny, guitarist Amir Alav and drummer Sondor Mendbayar, the trio brought in influences from the US, Iran and Mongolia onto the latest EP, Into Equilibrium . A few years ago, Sondor put out a Craigslist ad looking for musicians to form a synthpop band. Zel and Amir were the only peo...

While Glastonbury festival takes a fallow year, we're not stopping with the live music. This week, we head up to Scotland to bring you live performances from TRNSMT festival, alongside a few other new releases. We're talking about Angine de Poitrine 's incredible homecoming as the first of their Canadian dates kick off (and that 200,000-strong crowd at Montreal International Jazz Fest!?), and we'r...

On their first trip to Canada, we caught up with Brighton punky two-piece band Snake Eyes , made up of guitarist-singer Jim Heffy and drummer Thomas Coe-Brooker, while they were in Toronto to perform at NXNE festival last week. "The root of the record is environmentalism," the duo tell us of their recently released debut album 'cash rich'. The album cover is what they call a business-fish: "the on...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we have live performances from Primavera Sound festival in Porto and Barcelona, new albums and singles! Has Harry Styles outdone himself with his Meltdown curation and performance this week? We also review Black Country, New Road's show at History in Toronto, and bring you an interview with Brighton punk duo snake eyes recorded at NXNE festival last week! Music b...

One of this show's favourite weeks of the year is whenever North By North East (NXNE) festival is taking place. Over the space of a week, emerging music and artists take over the city of Toronto, with venues putting on showcases of some of the most exciting names in the Canadian underground, along with a number of international artists as well. The cooler, more underground cousin of SXSW. And by g...

This week's show is all and only live music! From festival stages across Europe, we're bringing you some of our favourite (available) performances from Primavera Sound in Barcelona this weekend and BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Sunderland a few weeks ago. Back home, we're also looking ahead to Canada's signature new music showcase festival, North By North East , that runs 10-14 June next week! We'r...