When The Weakerthans walked on stage at the sold out Bowery Ballroom Friday night (12/9) to play their 2003 album, Reconstruction Site, you could see the appreciation of the crowd’s enthusiasm on John ...

When Winnipeg native John K. Samson arrives in Northampton this Saturday night for The Weakerthans’ performance at The Pearl Street Night Club, he’ll be accompanied by more than just a library of ...

John K. Samson got his start playing in a politically charged punk band, but for the last decade, he’s fronted THE WEAKERTHANS, one of today’s most underrated units. After a four-year break, the band ...

The Weakerthans‘ upcoming tour dates have been updated with openers and additional shows. Those plans include a West Coast run in July and an East Coast second leg in September. Jason Collett of ...

If Major League Baseball wanted to salvage poor ratings for last month's Yankees/Marlins World Series, it should've asked The Strokes to play a hometown national anthem in the Bronx. The skinny ...

Canada’s been getting loads of attention this year from stateside indie-rockers jazzed over ornate ensemble productions from “gay church folk music” practitioners the Hidden Cameras and extravagantly ...

Maybe it was the brutal Winnipeg winters. Maybe it was the crushing boredom. Whatever it was, John K. Samson’s old agitprop punk outfit, Propagandhi, came out of the gate spewing more vitriol and bile ...

A quick look at the lyric booklet that accompanies this rather nicely packaged CD screamed 'concept album!' in several alarming ways. So I alerted the relevant authorities, put the dog handlers on ...

Four albums in, The Weakerthans' members are still making intelligent, punk-tinged pop music. The band's leader, John K. Samson, is a fiction writer disguised as a songwriter, crafting an impressive ...

Why can't I draw right up to what I want to say? / Why can't I ever stop when I want to stay? / I slide right through the days / I'm always throwing hack-weight. Once called Canada's "bona-fide rock ...

For the lead singer of the Weakerthans, the band's upcoming four-night concert series is a signal to start working on something new - and John K. Samson already has plenty of ideas. The first is a ...