Podcasts by Off The Record
Off The Record is a music interview podcast based out of Toronto, Canada. In it, your host, Frankie, interviews artists from all walks of life and at different levels of their careers. Episodes are mainly constructed around discussing new releases, and the making of them. However, listeners also get to know their favourite artists on a more intimate level, by hearing how they have been dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and who they are currently listening to.
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Episode 48: Koster from 2022-02-18T17:00
Jay Koster, former frontman of BC based pop-punk band The Fallaways, joins me to talk about his new solo project Koster.
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Episode 47: Lukas and Charise of MOTHER TONGUES from 2021-08-23T16:39:55
If you haven’t heard of this band and love nothing more than putting on some great music after a long day’s work and sparking up a joint or sipping on your favourite cocktail then look no furthe...
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Episode 46: Karla & Sam of SPRINTS from 2021-07-26T14:00:39
SPRINTS are a four-piece garage-noise band based out of Dublin, Ireland. They are made up of Karla Chubb on vocals, Sam McCann on bass, Colm O’Reilly on guitar and Jack Callan on drums.
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Episode 45: Devon and Jeff of Jane's Party from 2021-06-23T16:40:49
If you live in Toronto and frequented music venues like The Horseshoe Tavern, or even just have the local radio station playing in the background at home or your place of work, then you’ve undou...
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Episode 44: The Damn Truth from 2021-05-29T17:14:27
The Damn Truth is made up of Lee-la Baum (lead vocals/guitar), Tom Shemer (lead guitar/vocals), PY Letellier (bass/vocals) and Dave Traina (drums/vocals).
They have been around for the be...
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EPISODE 43: Attawalpa from 2021-05-11T18:17
Luis Felber has been involved in England’s music scene for a long time, playing in tons of bands, in various genres from punk rock, with his band Turbogeist to psych rock with Shuga.
He i...
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EPISODE 42: Miesha Louie of Miesha and the Spanks from 2021-05-04T15:29
Miesha Louie has been making music for over a decade now and as the band name suggests, has always been the main driving force behind it. Miesha and the Spanks, has gone through many lineup chan...
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EPISODE 41: David Schellenberg of TUNIC from 2021-04-28T17:56:40
Tunic formed around 2012, after the band’s founder David Schellenberg – on vocals and guitar - was fired from another band he was in for not being good enough on bass. This acted as a catalyst f...
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EPISODE 40: Ben Walsh of Tiger's Jaw from 2021-04-06T16:31:34
Tiger’s Jaw have been together for well over a decade now since starting their career in Scranton, Pennsylvania back in 2005. In that time they have put out and handful of Eps and 6 studio album...
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EPISODE 39: Jack Underkofler of Dead Poet Society from 2021-03-26T18:02:04
The members of Dead Poet Society went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and when they initially formed in 2012 or 2013, but without their current frontman Jack Underkofler – the band, a...
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EPISODE 38: LTtheMonk from 2021-03-24T18:00
LTtheMonk grew up in Beckenham, a small town in Bromley – one of the Boroughs of London in the UK. Music was always a big part of his life, but he fell in love with Hip Hop when we stumbled upon...
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EPISODE 37: Matt Ware of Yester Daze from 2021-03-21T16:48:19
Yester Daze is made up of three members: Brandon McShad on GTR and lead VOX, Zach Lemay on bass and Matt Ware on the drums. The guys originally got together when Brandon hired Zach and Matt as s...
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EPISODE 36: Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs from 2021-02-26T22:48:31
The Toronto-based powerhouse, Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs have been tearing up stages across North America with the likes of Fidlar, The Dirty Nil, Frank Turner and Billy Joe ...
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EPISODE 35: Brandon Williams AKA Chastity from 2021-02-12T22:13:14
Chastity is the brain-child of Brandon Williams, the band’s frontman and lyricist. Over the last six years, Williams has put out an EP and two full-length albums.
So far in 2...
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EPISODE 34: TandM from 2021-01-07T17:00
Toronto-based Indie Pop duo TandM is made up of lead singer and guitarist Maxine Beck-Sinderby and drummer Thomas Franklin – T for Thomas and M for Maxine – therefore TandM.
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EPISODE 33: Bike Thiefs from 2020-12-23T17:00
Bike Thiefs is a Toronto-based post-punk trio made up of bassist Kris Pandierada, drummer Andrew Fasken and guitarist/vocalist Marko Woloshyn.
The band have been to...
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EPISODE 32: Partner from 2020-12-14T22:01:23
Partner is made up of Josée Caron on guitar and vocals, Lucy Niles on bass and vocals and Simone TB on drums. The band have be...
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Episode 31: Baby FuzZ from 2020-12-01T19:47:58
Sterling Fox has been in the industry for a long time now and has worked with some top talents, like Madonna, Avicii and Adam Levine to name a few. Ho...
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EPISODE 30: Scott Xylo and Adeemus of Shadeemus from 2020-11-23T19:24:36
Originally, this project started Scott Xylo, a British producer & Songwriter of Jamaican descent befriended Welsh guitarist Adam Martin (ADEEMUS Listen
EPISODE 29: Rory Rodriguez of Hurtwave (and Dayseeker) from 2020-11-17T20:28:06
Dayseeker vocalist Rory Rodriguez and drummer Mike Karle announced their new project Hurtwave earlier this summer. For this en...
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EPISODE 28: My Kid Brother from 2020-11-13T19:00
After signing with Fearless Records in 2019, the My Kid Brother released their first EP in September of this year and it’s a wonderful collection of half a dozen songs – for the...
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EPISODE 27: Sara May of Falcon Jane from 2020-11-09T23:49:20
Falcon Jane’s frontwoman and founder, Sara May, started performing under the moniker almost 9 years ago, and while the band has undergone many line up changes o...
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EPISODE 26: Blake Prince and Chris LeMasters of TEETH from 2020-10-30T17:35:55
TEETH is a project that was birthed out of a necessity to release a lot of pent up anger and it shows in their music, these guys are HEAVY, however my chat with them was not. Listen
EPISODE 25: Jared Ellul of Heart Attack Kids from 2020-10-21T16:57:10
Heart Attack Kids originally started as a two-piece punk band made up of lead singer and guitarist Jared Ellul and drummer Nathan Stock in 2013...
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EPISODE 24: Captain Sensible of The Damned from 2020-10-15T23:50:47
The Damned are Britain's greatest surviving punk rock band from the good old days and the Rockfield studios are especially important, because this is where the band would record...
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EPISODE 23: Jenna Priestner of Mobina Galore from 2020-10-13T16:25:37
Mobina Galore, the Winnipeg punk duo made up of Jenna Priestner on guitar and lead vocals and Marcia Hanson on drums, formed in 2011. Since the...
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EPISODE 22: Panther Almqvist of Bootblacks from 2020-10-08T22:51:52
Bootblacks is a post-punk band based out of NYC and have been making music for a decade. The band’s founders, vocalist Panther Almqvist and guitarist Ali Gorman...
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EPISODE 21: Loeden and Evan of Rarity from 2020-10-06T17:58:37
Rarity is a Post-Hardcore band based out of Hamilton, Ontario and are signed to New Damage Records. They have been active since 2014 and have released one EP and two-full length albums.
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EPISODE 20: The Fallaways from 2020-09-24T20:24:05
The Fallaways have been together for a few years now, having released their first EP Skiddish in 2017. They have undergone some line up changes since then, most noticea...
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EPISODE 19: Patrick Miranda of Movements from 2020-09-16T15:42:38
Movements formed in 2015 in Rancho Santa Margarita, California and were signed by Fearless Records after playing just one show. Since being signed, the band have put out an EP i...
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EPISODE 18: Kevin Keegan of Dead Quiet from 2020-09-10T21:03:26
Dead Quiet have been around for a while, having formed in 2014 and releasing their debut self-titled album a year later in 2015. Now in 2020 the band is on the cusp of releasing...
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EPISODE 17: Matt Coward of Spinster Jones from 2020-09-09T22:51:10
In today’s episode I chat with Matt Coward, the Spinster Jones' bassist and learn about how these three guys met, and how their surrounding s influenced their s...
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EPISODE 16: Bryan Kuznitz of Fame on Fire from 2020-09-03T23:43:40
Florida-based rockers, Fame on Fire, can’t really be pigeonholed into a specific genre, which they are fine with - one thing they refuse to be labelled as is a cover band. Why is it that they dr...
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EPISODE 15: Osé from 2020-08-28T18:28:45
Osé is a Nigerian-born; Brampton-based 17 year-old, who has made some pretty major waves in the Toronto scene in a very short amount of time – she started dropping music this year! She is backed...
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EPISODE 14: Cam Gray of The Bare Minimum from 2020-08-20T22:33:32
You were just listening to the intro of “Scars and Stripes”, the latest single from Toronto-based punk outfit The Bare Minimum. I got to chat with Cam Gray Listen
EPISODE 13: Alex Reed of Seeming from 2020-08-19T18:40:12
Seeming’s frontman Alex Reed and I chat about the upcoming album, the making of it, and what avant-garde composer Sarah Hennies brought to the table by co-produ...
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EPISODE 12: Justin Benlolo of BRKN Love from 2020-08-10T19:19:55
For today’s episode I decided to reach out to someone, who I had already interviewed before the pandemic, simply because I didn’t have a lot of time to chat with him the last time: I’m talking a...
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EPISODE 11: Chachy of Round Eye from 2020-08-04T23:40:25
With the power of the internet, I was able to do a cross-continental interview with Chachy, lead singer for ex-pat band Round Eye based out of Shanghai, China. ...
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EPISODE 10: Zakk Abrams of Hotknives from 2020-07-27T18:59:53
Today I give you an interview I did with Zakk Abrams, lead vocalist for post-hardcore band Hotknives based out of Hamilton, ON. The band just released a four so...
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EPISODE 9: Mike Gribben of Bad Breed from 2020-07-17T16:42:23
Today I chat with Mike Gribben, lead singer for Toronto-based rock band Bad Breed. The band just released their latest album Bad Breed in Ferocious Love today, July 17. Mike and I chat ...
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EPISODE 8: Andrew Zamora of Weigh The Anchor from 2020-07-16T17:37:14
In today’s episode I have a chat with Andrew Zamora, vocalist for pop-punk band Weigh The Anchor based out of Oakville, Ontario. The band just released their 3r...
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EPISODE 7: Remington Leith of Palaye Royale from 2020-07-10T23:09:11
In this one I chat with Remington Leith Kropp, lead singer of Canadian-American rock band Palaye Royale.
Remington started the band with his two siblings...
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EPISODE 6: Stephen Wells of Birthday Club from 2020-07-07T20:56:26
In today’s episode I chat with Stephen Wells, the mastermind behind Houston’s bedroom pop band: Birthday Club.
As with most of my episodes, we chat...
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EPISODE 5: ZForbes from 2020-06-24T17:11:25
This week I sat down with Toronto-based singer and producer ZForbes. I first met ZForbes when he performed on my other show Sideways (link to the session below) and I've kept tabs on him ever si...
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EPISODE 4: Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October from 2020-05-28T02:07:44
This episode was especially exciting for me, because I got to interview someone who’s music really helped me get through a lot of dark times in my teen years and is a person who now is such an i...
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EPISODE 3: JB Brubaker of August Burns Red from 2020-05-18T17:51:22
In this episode I chat with JB Brubaker, guitarist for August Burns Red. We discuss how he and his family are coping with COVID19, the process of making ABR's latest album Guardians, and our sha...
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EPISODE 2: The Blue Stones from 2020-05-14T22:39:17
I caught up up with Justin and Tarek of The Blue Stones via Zoom. We spent a lot of time chatting about video games and TV Shows, but also about the new album they're working on.
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EPISODE 1: The Bankrobber from 2020-05-11T15:31:39
For the first episode of the OTR podcast, I interview Giacomo Oberti, lead singer of the Italian Indie Rock band The Bankrobber.
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