OVERVIEW
- >34k monthly listeners on Spotify
- Releasing 2 EPs in 2025 - April and September
- Streaming: The sophomore record Youth {06/2023} has garnered > 1.1 Million streams with multiple features on Ready to Rock, All New Rock, Release Radar and Discover Weekly
- Touring: 22 show North American Tour {11/2023} direct support for Finger Eleven in Western Canada :: 46 shows in 2024 :: Ontario tour {01/2025} :: Canadian tour begins in April {04/2025}
- Awards: 'Revolution No.10' won 'Favourite Music Video' [03/2025] and ‘Lock On’ won ‘Best Music Video’ [03/2023] at Kingston Canadian Film Festival
- Other: 'Golden' used for opening montage of Canada vs Sweden 4 Nations Face-Off {02/2025}, 'Lock On' used for Hockey Night in Canada opening montage {01/2025}, 'R.I.P. Me Down' used frequently on Hockey Night In Canada broadcasts, 'Youth' was used by SportsNet for the NHL draft [06/2023]
NEW RELEASES
Golden
Released Tuesday, Dec 17th 2024
“Golden”—undoubtedly the heaviest music Kasador has released to date—is a taste of a new collection of 10 songs to be released in 2025, across two EPs. It opens on a heavy, grimy garage-rock groove, then motors through a taut, acidic verse before the chorus bursts open on Adubofuor’s half-time beat: “If everything is golden, what is there to hold on?” Wyatt wonders. The song came from Wyatt’s reflections after spending time in Los Angeles: The city’s famous, fame- and money-obsessed culture left him with a deep, and deeply modern, sense of alienation and desensitization.
Currently in heavy rotation on Sirius XM's The Verge, 'Golden' sits at #52 on Active Alt Radio and has been used frequently on National TV broadcasts by Hockey Night in Canada (including the opening montage to the 4 Nations Faceoff Tournament)
Cut it
Released Friday Jan 24, 2025
This is dressed-down, cheeky, pirate-radio indie-rock: 'Cut It' sounds like a stumble through an early 2000s summer-night house party, a crunchy, quirky alt-rock earworm that’s destined for TV syncs and to become a live-performance favourite. (It’s also the first Kasador track to feature a dog.)
Revolution No.10
Released Friday, Feb 28th 2025
'Revolution No.10' written with and featuring Ugandan-Canadian artist Nambi, uses a Rolling Stones-ish chording energy as a springboard to a punkish modern-rock call-to-arms against the super-elites. “It’s just this whole thing of all these billionaire guys that everyone seems to weirdly love,” says Wyatt. “How are you still obsessing over these people when they have completely screwed you over to get there?”
The music video for 'Revolution No.10' won Favourite Music Video at Kingston Canadian Film Festival [03/2025]
ABOUT KASADOR
Kasador has been busy. Over the past two years, the Kingston, Ontario band released their second full-length, 2023’s Youth, toured across Canada and the U.S., and went from a three-piece to a four-piece outfit. They hit major streaming milestones, won awards for their music videos, been getting regular spins at XM radio, and scored spots on national Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts—the sort of successes every rock band dreams of.
But as much as they’re interested in success, Kasador — vocalist/guitarist Cameron Wyatt, guitarist Thomas Draper, bassist Boris Baker, and drummer Stephen Adubofuor — are interested in simply being a great rock and roll band in a time when connection, friction, and unpredictability are whittled away in favor of algorithmically dictated sameness. What is left when everything feels and looks and sounds good? Why do we idolize the rich assholes picking our pockets?
'Golden', 'Cut It' and 'Revolution No.10' —undoubtedly the heaviest music Kasador has released to date — is a taste of a new collection of 10 songs to be released in 2025, across two EPs. Recorded at the Bathouse Recording Studio with engineer Nyles Spencer and written with a group of friends and longtime collaborators, the tracks evidence a new era for Kasador: More than ever, they’re committed to loud, catchy, confrontational guitar music as a weapon against corporate power, plutocracy, and our great collective numbness. This is the clearest and most direct they’ve ever been. Uncoincidentally, it’s also the most fed-up they’ve ever been, and they’re not pulling any punches.
Kasador has perfected their sound with this new material: It’s tender and carefully considered, but also raw and wild and burnt around the edges, a sonic and compositional thumbprint that nods to classic and alternative rock history while pushing into something new, something exciting.
This moment is years in the making. Kasador, who have shared stages with Arkells, July Talk, Sam Roberts Band, and The Glorious Sons, began a new era in 2016. In 2019, the band released their debut full-length Brood and Bloom, a dark, pensive collection of alt-rock, pop, and R&B that scored 350,000 plays in the first six months after release. The songs on Youth have collected more than 1,100,000 streams. Kasador’s momentum and energy is palpable, and this powderkeg of new material is ready to be set off..
If you want more dirty, raw, celebratory rock and roll in your life, stay tuned. Help is on the way.
SOPHOMORE RECORD: YOUTH
Released June 2 2023
Kasador's sophomore full-length about youth, memory, relationships, and how the relentless passage of time shapes and constantly reshapes all of those things. It’s a bright, punkish, emotional guitar-rock record that ultimately tracks the process of learning to be okay with not being okay. The result on record is an essential document of a band realizing that things won’t—can’t—last forever, and how to make sense of the gap between youthful dreams and very adult realities.
Highlight Track
'R.I.P. Me Down' has become the band’s most popular song to date despite being overlooked as a single/focus track. With a grassroots approach to promoting the deep cut on TikTok, and never spending a single penny on ads, PR campaigns, playlisting, a music video, etc... R.I.P. Me Down has garnered over 350k streams, has landed placements on Hockey Night in Canada, is in regular rotation on Sirius XM's The Verge, and is a fan favourite at live shows.
Credits
- Produced by: Brett Emmons of The Glorious Sons.
- Co-Writes: Brett Emmons, Justin Rutledge, Maia Davies
- Engineered by: Nyles Spencer (July Talk, Half Moon Run)
- Mixed by: Vic Florencia (Olivia Rodrigo, Five For Fighting)
- Mastered by: Peter Letros (Beyonce, Duran Duran)
Tracklist
- Youth
- R.I.P. me down
- Quit Your Crying
- The City
- Changing
- Lock On
- Crawling
- Younger Days
2025 TIMELINE:
- December 2024: 'Golden' single release
- January 2025: 'Cut It' single release
- January 2025: Ontario Tour
- February 2025: New single 'Revolution No.10' single release
- March 2025: Music Video for 'Revolution No.10' premiere at KCFF
- April 2025: EP Release on April 4
- April 2025: 13 show Canadian Tour
CANADIAN RADIO / DSP
- Brood & Bloom [10/2019] - Total Album Streams: > 800,000
- Youth [06/2023] - Total Album Streams: > 1,100,000
Radio
- Golden [02/2025] - #52 Active Alt Radio
- Youth - #3 Active Indie downloads & #7 CANCON downloads (DMDS) [06/2023]
- Brood & Bloom [04/2019] - #27 Canadian Alt Radio
- Brood & Bloom [04/2019] - #37 Active Rock Radio
Sirius XM
- 'Golden' was added to 'The Verge' {01/2025} and has been played >125 times
- 'R.I.P. Me Down' was added to 'The Verge' {11/2024} and has been played >60 times
- ‘Brood & Bloom’ was added to heavy rotation on ‘The Verge’
American Radio
- 'Come Get Yer Money' was added to Idobi Radio
- 'Skeleton Park' added to heavy rotation on 365 Radio Network
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Sold out headlining hometown show in 800 cap room December 2019
- Shared the stage with Canadian greats: Walk Off The Earth, Arkells, July Talk, Wintersleep, Matt Mays, U.S.S, Current Swell, 54-40, The Headstones, The Trews, Sam Roberts Band, The Glorious Sons, Finger Eleven
- Featured on national CBC broadcasts
- Featured on Spotify’s New Music Friday, Apple Music’s New Music Monday playlist multiple times. Also on Ready To Rock, Release Radar and Discover Weekly
- Featured on House Of Strombo’s tribute to The Tragically Hip
- Features on blogs; Exclaim!, Indie88, New Noise (Indie Trendsetters, Fingers On Blast,], A Little Bit Louder [Los Angles]
- Music synchs with Hockey Night In Canada, SportsNet, and Visit Kingston.
- Attained 350K spins of their 2019 record 'Brood & Bloom' in first 6 months
- Attained 110k spins of their 2023 record 'Youth' in first month
- Part of the first public concert at Kingston Penitentiary as fundraiser for the United Way (Sept 2019)
- Created a beer with a Kingston brewery to promote the album Brood & Bloom (Feb 2020)
- Music video for ‘Lock On’ won ‘Best Music Video’ at Kingston Canadian Film Festival (March 2023)
2025 TOUR DATES
January 24 - Kingston, ON - The Broom Factory *SOLD OUT*
January 25 - Stouffville, ON - Wintersong Festival
January 27 - Montreal, QC - Casa Del Popolo
January 31 - St. Catharines, ON - Warehouse *SOLD OUT*
February 1 - Oshawa, ON - The Atria
February 7 - Ottawa, ON - The Rainbow *SOLD OUT*
February 8 - Collingwood, ON - Black Bellows Brewing *SOLD OUT*
April 10 - Toronto, ON - Rivoli
April 11 - Hamilton, ON - Mills Hardware
April 17 - Kelowna, BC - Red Bird Brewing
April 18 - Vancouver, BC - The Portside Pub
April 19 - Squamish, BC - Trickster's Hideout
April 23 - Calgary, AB - Modern Love
April 24 - Edmonton, AB - The Aviary
April 25 - Saskatoon, SK - The Green Room
April 26 - Winnipeg, MB - The Osborne Taphouse
May 1 - Halifax, NS - The Basement
May 2 - Sydney, NS - Red Farm
May 3 - Pictou, NS - deCoste Performing Arts Centre
May 16 - Ottawa, ON - The Rainbow
ASSETS
TEAM
- Artist: Kasador (kasadorband@gmail.com)
- CA Agent: Jeff Craib (jeff@feldman-agency.com) & Jordan Boyd (jordan_b@feldman-agency.com)
- Promotion and Distribution handled by Believe (Mark Costain)