Polaris Prize nominees The OBGMs announce US tour

Toronto’s The OBGMs, whose 2024 album SORRY, IT’S OVER is up for this year’s Polaris Music Prize, have announced a short run of US dates this fall, hitting Atlanta, Raleigh, Philly, DC, NYC, and Boston. All dates are listed below.

The NYC show is at Arlene’s Grocery on November 21.

The OBGMs were one of our picks for bands to check out at the 2025 New Colossus Festival and we wrote: “Toronto’s The OBGMs (which stands for “The oOohh Baby Gimme Mores”) are coming up on a decade of blurring punk, rap and anything else that comes their way with indefatigable energy and big hooks. The band’s 2020 album The Ends was (also) shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, and their 2024 album SORRY, IT’S OVER features contributions from METZ’s Alex Edkins, PUP’s Stefan Babcock, MSTRKRFT, and more. ‘We’ve always been a band about raw energy, but this time we wanted to share our soul,’ frontman Densil McFarlane says.”

Listen to SORRY IT’S OVER below.

The OBGMs – 2025 US tour Dates
11/16 – Atlanta – Masquerade
11/17 – Raleigh – Slims
11/19 – Philadelphia – The Fire
11/20 – Washington, DC, Pie Shop
11/21 – NYC – Arlene’s Grocery
11/22 – Boston – Warehouse XI