Yellow Brit Road

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...

American punks Vundabar never expected their 2015 album Gawk to take off the way it did. Stemming from success in the indie world, the album took on a life of its own online during the pandemic, leading the band to bigger stages across the world, TV and festival appearances and more. Even at the time, "we felt like it was a good record," singer and writer Brandon tells us. Even still, the album's...

We're back in Canada! This week's show brings you new bands I discovered (and some not-so-new discoveries) and saw while over in the UK, including at the iconic grassroots venue the Windmill in Brixton. We're also talking about the final dates of the Super Furry Animals reunion in London, and we catch up with Boston punks Vundabar at their Toronto show! I've also got you reviews of Paul McCartney'...

This week's Yellow Brit Road is live from Cardiff! Fresh from Super Furry Animals' homecoming show on their reunion tour not 24 hours ago, I am joined by friends Jaz and Nathan to review the first Furries comeback in 10 years. We also bring highlights from Focus Wales festival this year. We also bring you a live set and interview recorded a few weeks ago with Irish rockers NewDad from their show a...

This week, we caught up with the Irish alternative and shoegaze band NewDad . Singer, lyricist and guitarist Julie Dawson came with our little team to Kops Records in Toronto for a quick interview, where singer, lyricist and guitarist Julie walked us through their latest album ‘Altar’, we talked about the album being inspired by their hometown of Galway, their feelings after playing a very success...

This week, the Yellow Brit Road asks, did Charli XCX troll us all? Is difficult music good art? We look ahead to the Super Furry Animals reunion that kicked off this weekend in Dublin and Glasgow and bring you reviews from here in Toronto: The Cribs , Concrete Vehicles, Cam Kahin and more. Look out for our live session with NewDad , recorded at the Danforth next week. Music this week by: Fontaines...

If you're swamped in the flood of Bandcamp Friday releases, we got you. This week's Yellow Brit Road takes you through some of our highlights for albums released this Friday, big and small. We also review Dry Cleaning's recent show in Toronto and bring you an exclusive interview with NYC rising rockers Telescreens, whose third album 'Why The Lights Flicker' comes out on 12 June. We've also got a s...

NYC four-piece rock band Telescreens believe in the power of connection and serendipity. "Every time I would write songs [at home], the lights would flicker in my room. It was the moment right before a song would happen, there was a moment of stillness... you can feel it before a song comes," songwriter, guitarist and frontman Jackson Hamm tells me. And so came the inspiration for the band's third...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we bring you reviews from seeing The Last Dinner Party live, pay tribute to the Grad Club that has announced its closure, dealing another major blow to Kingston's live music scene. (PS I Love You's iconic music video for 'Get Over' was in fact shot there... and at CFRC!) We remember some beloved shows there - Death From Above 1979, Arcade Fire, The Tragically Hip...

It's all about gigs this week! The Yellow Brit Road brings you live performances from weekend 2 of Coachella, some new releases and reviews from recent shows in town by Alice Phoebe Lou and the OBGMs. We're looking ahead to upcoming shows by The Last Dinner Party , Heavenly, Telescreens and Cootie Catcher , and are joined by Gabe from Trashwyre ahead of the band's debut EP release show at the Arca...

To call Dublin post punk five-piece band Gurriers "outspoken" could refer to a few things. They are unapologetic in their lyrics, hitting home on themes ranging from hypocricy to nihilism, extreme rhetoric, online abuse and desensitisation. Musically, they make you sit up and listen. Their live shows are electrifying, loud and alive. And they practice what they preach, having led the entire contin...

Festival season is here! As week 1 of Coachella 2026 comes to a close, we look back at some of our favourite performances at the festival by UK and Irish artists (and Geese, because turns out I'm like that), talk about the significance of Justin Bieber's return to music at Coachella (aka Bieberchella, which as a Canadian show we feel compelled to discuss), and the incredible Dublin post punks Gurr...

Toronto shoegaze 5 piece band Mad Iris bring together harsh, loud guitar noise, softer, intimate sounds, both screams and whispers, while evoking a certain hazy, nostalgic 90s image that brings to mind artists like Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. They also have a unique sound through layering up 3 guitars, all adding something new. We caught up with the band at Wavelength Festival 2026, where...

Packed show this week. Back from the Junos and back on track, we review new albums from Raye and the new Quebecois funky microtonal sensations Angine de Poitrine. Paul McCartney's back with music and he's getting back to the beginning, 6 Music Festival kicks off the British summer festival season and we are joined for a live session by Toronto shoegaze band Mad Iris, back from when we met them at...

This week's show is a little different: we come to you live from on the ground in Hamilton, ON for the 55th annual JUNO Awards ! The Yellow Brit Road takes you behind the scenes of Canada's biggest night in music with coverage from Junos Week events including JunoFest and Songwriters' Circle , including interviews with performers, JUNO nominees, performances from the Junos Gala and Juno Week! We a...

Lots on the Yellow Brit Road this week. We bring you coverage from Wavelength music festival in Toronto: some sessions and interviews we did (coming soon!), Melissa Auf der Maur 's 90s rock memoir launch on her time in Hole, Paul McCartney's photogallery on 1963-64 with the Beatles, review from seeing Gurriers live this week (interview to follow soon!), Prodigy's breakthrough 1996 hit 'Firestarter...

This week, we are joined in session by the Montreal-based four-piece punk band Truck Violence ! Truck Violence go beyond the confines of punk: drawing on influences from back home in Alberta, where vocalist Karsyn Henderson and guitarist Paul Lecours are from, the band paint visit pictures of life in the prairies with both their music and words, centred around Karsyn’s captivating poetry. Musicall...

This week on the Yellow Brit Road, we're talking a lot about live shows: we're talking upcoming shows and interviews, and we bring you an interview and live set with Montreal punk band Truck Violence! The band joined us before their set at The Handlebar in Toronto on 21 February 2026 to talk art, poetry, Alberta and their 2024 debut album Violence. Songs played on this set are 1. Undressed you lay...