Underdog

Mixed Emotions Rock With Eponymous Debut Album By Tight Canadian Trio ON

Posted on by JL

22 September 2022

Band: ON
Who: An punk-rock-experienced Toronto trio

FFO: Weezer, The Pixies. Bikini Kill, Queens of the Stone Age,
Veruca Salt, Deftones, L7, Royal Blood, Refused, Acid Tes


(photo by Lindi Gordon)

New album: ON
Out: 20 September 2022 via Indiestructable Records

Lucy Di Santo (frontwoman): “This record deals with where we are today and what we’ve overcome, persevering as a society and as individuals. I found myself as part of a genuinely authentic creative, human experience with Steve and Dan in various geographical locations including NYC, Florida and Toronto and felt the need to document it melodically. It’s about pain, hope, reframing and overcoming. It’s about survival. The songs are an authentic and complete collaboration of the triad and soul connection that is ON”

TUTV‘s impressions: As long as afire bands as ON keep on rockin’ in the free world
rawk ‘n’ roll will be around forever. The tight trio prove it with punchy brio, passionate panache and a varied sonic approach fitting different moods.

They turn up the heat and the decibels like Courtney Love and Hole did once upon a time (Break You / Underdog / Take A Shot / Break You / Soul Killer), they groove and move in slow-mo on Gator, Hereafter, Fla and Blackmail (at first I thought it was Garbage‘s amazing Amazon Shirley Manson), with the tender Try it’s reflection time and slow-burning torch Amends (my fav track) is a tour de force jam – with a burning Led Zep blues reverberation – that explodes when ON uses all of their cylinders. A fantastic closer of a notable debut.

Singles/clips: Underdog / Blackmail

– UNDERDOG –

– BLACKMAIL –

Stream/buy full album
here via Bandcamp.


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ON: Facebook – Bandcamp

Turn This Speed-Up Sledgehammer ON

Posted on by JL

Daily electricity to load your batteries

4 August 2022


(photo by Lindi Gordon)

Band: ON
Who: An experienced punk-rock-experienced Toronto trio

FFO: Weezer, The Pixies. Bikini Kill, Queens of the Stone Age,
Veruca Salt, Deftones, L7, Royal Blood, Refused, Acid Tes

New album: ON
Out: 20 September 2022 via Indiestructable Records

Lucy Di Santo (frontwoman): “This record deals with where we are today and what we’ve overcome, persevering as a society and as individuals. I found myself as part of a genuinely authentic creative, human experience with Steve and Dan in various geographical locations including NYC, Florida and Toronto and felt the need to document it melodically. It’s about pain, hope, reframing and overcoming. It’s about survival. The songs are an authentic and complete collaboration of the triad and soul connection that is ON”

First single: UNDERDOG

“This is a song about hope, love, angst and dreams. It’s about the temptation to
get back in the ring once more when the world no longer makes any sense and
you have nothing to lose. The accompanying video was filmed by Lindi Gordon
and edited by Michael Gucciardi.”

TUTV: Underdog speeds like a hot rod on the run. No brakes, no breaks, no mistakes.
After all these years it still amazes me how a guitar, a bass, and a drums can enliven your adrenalin production, can accelerate your bloodstream, and can turn your lazy state of mind upside down.

Of course, you need to handle those instruments the way it happens right here, with bravura and perseverance and don’t forget to turn ON the decibels. Add avid riot grrrl vocals and you have a recipe for pogo dancing.

Let the (under)dogs out…

ON: Facebook – Bandcamp