MUSIC

Black and white photo of Tha Retail Simps performing on stage

Tha Retail Simps

Montreal, QC

If you like your punk a little bit sleazy and full of Raw Power, meet Tha (The/Thine/Thee) Retail Simps. Dubbed “Montreal’s premier slop rock act” by MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL, the Simps aren’t afraid to let their groovier-side shine, with horns and schmaltzy ballads nicely breaking up the power-chord rippers. It’s music guaranteed to make you want to start wearing leather.

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Black‑and‑white photo of musician Chris Burns performing on a small stage. He stands at a microphone with an electric guitar, wearing a collared shirt with rolled‑up sleeves and a tie. Framed posters and artwork fill the wall behind him, and an amplifier sits to his right. The scene has an intimate, vintage live‑show atmosphere.

Chris Burns & His Going Concerns

Six members of eclectic punk band Parisian Orgy are posed, standing on a bench while casually wearing clown attire

Parisian Orgy

Two members of Snõõper stand outdoors at night in heavy artificial fog, surrounded by large speaker‑like boxes and a traffic light. One person in sunglasses and a blue‑and‑white long‑sleeve shirt stands upright, while the other, wearing a pink‑and‑white top, bends forward near the traffic light. Bright flash lighting creates a stark, surreal scene against the dark background.

Snõõper

GENRE

SUB-GENRES

Punk / Garage-Punk / Proto-Punk

REFERENCE POINTS

Ty Segall, King Khan and the Shrines, Jacuzzi Boys

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. 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 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
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 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