The Weakerthans sadly broke up last year, but here’s some news that cheers us up a bit. Frontman John K. Samson will release a new solo album called Winter Wheat on October 21 via ANTI-, and it has ...

Anyone who follows The Weakerthans probably realized they’ve been slowing down — they last played live in 2013 and last released an album in 2007 — but now drummer Jason Tait broke the news that the ...

John K. Samson's band, the Weakerthans, are quintessentially Winnipeg. Author Dave Bidini, in the Globe and Mail, called Winnipeg's people and their city "sad and beautiful" and the Weakerthans the ...

In the midst of a big ol' tour to support Reunion Tour, their latest full-length record, the Weakerthans played two sold-out shows in Toronto. They were really, really sold out. Notice the ...

Better Than: Waiting in line at the DMV. Lead singer of the Last Town Chorus, Meghan Hickey, has a voice that is both sultry and seductive. Hickey’s ability to handle her slide guitar is like watching ...

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 ...

John K. Samson opens with song. It's worth ten points. He carries a small travel Scrabble set with him everywhere he goes; in a small blue book he records each game, when and where, the words played ...

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. "Tournament of Hearts" by The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hole -- "Nobody's Daughter" (Mercury): When Courtney Love's solo album, "America's Sweetheart," tanked critically and commercially back in 2004, a return to her band, Hole, should have been considered ...

Winnipeg’s folky, punky, sensitive indie rockers the Weakerthans haven’t released an album since 2007’s Reunion Tour, and they haven’t played live in two years. So this may not come as a huge shock, ...