MUSIC

A grainy colour photo shows six-piece band BIG EVIL RAT sitting on the grass in front of a river with a big white arched bridge in the background.

BIG EVIL RAT

Edmonton, AB

Sometimes, a band name is just perfect. Case in point: Imagine a BIG EVIL RAT. Are you picturing something menacing, scraggly, and a bit dirty? Then you’ve got a great idea of what to expect from this sleazy, six-headed garage rock monster. BIG EVIL RAT are Sled regulars for a reason; find out why!

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Black and white photo of Tha Retail Simps performing on stage

Tha Retail Simps

A collage of energetic performance shots of Thee Canadian Dispatch, featuring musicians playing electric guitars and drums in both indoor and outdoor settings. The layered images capture motion and intensity, with high‑contrast, stylized lighting and a vintage poster‑like aesthetic that emphasizes the band’s raw, dynamic energy.

Thee Canadian Dispatch

A colour photo featuring three members of Weep Wave, posed standing in a Japanese intersection in an urban setting.

Weep Wave

GENRE

SUB-GENRES

Rock / Punk / Garage

REFERENCE POINTS

The Stooges, Deadly Snakes, AC/DC

LINKS

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a: afk Aladean Kheroufi aniqa dear Anthrodynia APACALDA Arlo Maverick Astrology Girl
b: Babe Corner Backxwash Bad Bodies Bananahaus Bennett Mitchell BETABOYS BIG EVIL RAT Big Rig Bijaan billy woods Birds Of Prrrey Black Country, New Road Bluffing Brain Bent Brass Lip BRIDGELAND Brock Geiger Buddie bugswallow
c: Carissa Gem Cartel Madras CAT PISS Cell Press Chic Chameleon CHLORINETIMEMACHINE Chris Burns & His Going Concerns Chrome Harvest Circling Girl Cistern clipping. Clothesline From Hell Concrete Vehicles Cooling Prongs Cris Derksen Quartet Culled cute
d: dead ex girlfriends Dermabrasion Dial Up DijahSB DOUR Drezus Dual Nature
e: ECHTHROS Eejungmi Emily Yacina ENTWINE Etran de L'Aïr Eye of Newt
f: False Body Fanclubwallet feeble little horse Fionavair Flooding Forest Ray FRANKLIN Fulfilment
g: G.U.S.H. Gadfly Ginger Beef Granpa (Lucas Abela) Gus Englehorn
h: Hailstones Hair Control Halfcut & Cole The God Heaven For Real Heavydive Hélène Barbier Hermitess Hip Hip Thursday His His HOMESHAKE Horse Rider
i: Ice Tha One illuminati hotties Innerouter Invisible Hand Iron Tusk
j: J.R.C.G. Jairus Sharif Jed Arbour JJL jo passed Julius Sumner Miller
k: K-Riz & The Family Kali Horse Kingdom of Birds knitting KTheChosen
l: l.n. baba Lana Del Rabies Laraaji Laura Hickli Lennie Rayen Lil Mariko LOBOTOMITE Lulu Lamontagne Lushings
m: MA: Q MAGELLA Maryze Mean Bikini Medusas Midnight Peg Milkmaid mineo kawasaki Minot mon cher MOONBEAN
n: Nick Schofield NIFE FITE Niloo NON ULTRAS Nora Kelly Band
o: Often Wrong Oil Giant Old Mound Oranje Our Friend, Oscar
p: Palehound Parisian Orgy Pastel Blank Pearly Moon PERRA Pesewa Pike Pinball, 1973 Plëzher Pnoom Poolgirl pseudo-antigone
r: Radioactive Vampire Teeth Rebel Grrrlz The Rifle County Players Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe RroachH Ryan Bourne & the Plant City Band
s: sadbirthdays Salami Rose Joe Louis Salt Horse SAMWOY schoolyard Sea of Lettuce SENTRIES Sextile Sharon Udoh Sheenah Ko Shunk SHY FRiEND Sick Puppy Sloosh Snõõper Spank Williams Spec Realists Spirit Hotel Still Depths Stucco Sub / / Cell Suffering Hour sundayclub Sunflower Medicine Sunglaciers Sweeping Promises Syphon
t: Tall Mary Tanajah TANGINGUGUN Tea Fannie TEAR DUNGEON Temps Tha Retail Simps Thee Canadian Dispatch Thee Soreheads Theia Thor Harris (Solo Set) Tinywiings Toxic Fem Tricky FM Truster
u: Uncanny Valley
v: VIBES Victrix Virgo Rising Void Comp
w: WANTS Wayne Patrick Garrett Weedrat Weep Wave Wheelchair Sports Camp Window Lamp Corp Witch Victim World News
y: Yarbo Yolande Laroche