MRG Live presents
MRG Live Presents: BORN RUFFIANS – JUICE, SQUEEZE & PULP TOUR
Event Details
Date
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Time
Doors: 7:00 PM - Show: 8:00 PM
Age Restriction
18+
Venue
The Royal Albert Arms
Address
48 Albert St, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Artist
Born RuffiansAbout the Event
with special guests Sham Family
Doors 7:00 Show 8:00 PM
Acclaimed Toronto- based Born Ruffians are pleased to announce their 2022 JUICE, SQUEEZE & PULP tour beginning April 27, 2022, in Rochester, New York; the 33-city tour in support of the band’s recent trilogy series will culminate June 25 in Winnipeg.
A complete list of dates is below, and tickets are now on sale here.
“For thirteen years, we were on tour,” says the band’s bassist Mitch DeRosier, “our entire adult lives were spent on the road. When such a big part of you disappears, all it means is that you’re going to cherish it when it comes back - we’re grateful, anxious, and excited to have tour life return this spring and to see you all again on the road.”
For the JUICE, SQUEEZE & PULP tour, the band—Luke Lalonde (guitar/vocals), Mitch DeRosier (bass), and Steve Hamelin (drums)—will introduce a new fourth member, Maddy Wilde, to the lineup.
Following the recording of Uncle, Duke & The Chief in 2018, the band still had a batch of songs that they wanted to record, so they entered the studio without knowing what would become of them. Those prolific recording sessions churned out more and more music, resulting in a multi-album release plan: JUICE (2020), SQUEEZE (2020), and PULP (2021).
Formed in rural Ontario, Born Ruffians arrived on the Toronto scene in 2004 and released a self-titled EP in 2006 on XL/Warp Records. The latter released the band’s debut full-length album, Red, Yellow & Blue and Say It (2010). Birthmarks (2013) and RUFF (2015) followed on Yep Roc Records and has received critical praise from NPR, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Noisey, Magnet, Under The Radar, and more.
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Born Ruffians
Born Ruffians – Luke Lalonde, Mitch Derosier, and Steve Hamelin - rose to prominence in the aughts indie blog era, the same Toronto scene that produced Canadian indie icons like Broken Social Scene, Tokyo Police Club, and Metric. Since that time, they’ve become one of Canada’s biggest indie rock exports, releasing 8 albums and 3 EPs on some of the world’s most acclaimed record labels - Warp Records, XL Recordings, Yep Roc Records, Paper Bag Records, and their newly-minted Wavy Haze Records.
The group has toured internationally, supporting renowned artists like Caribou, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip, and The New Pornographers, while also headlining tours throughout North America, UK, Europe, and Australia. ‘Uncle, Duke & The Chief’ (2018), one of the final projects produced by the late, exceptionally-great producer Richard Swift (The Shins, Nathaniel Rateliff, Foxygen), brought the band into a new era: the album was lauded by NPR Music, Rolling Stone, and American Songwriter as a mature, confident evolution of the band’s hooky left-of-center pop sensibilities. Their follow-up COVID-era trilogy ‘JUICE’ (2020), ‘SQUEEZE’ (2020), and ‘PULP’ (2021), produced by Graham Walsh (Alvvays, Holy Fuck, METZ), charted on Billboard and US Alternative Radio Charts and garnered widespread acclaim from press outlets in North America and Europe.
In 2025 they return with “Beauty’s Pride”, with new band member Maddy Wilde in tow. Here, the band set out to create a record that sounds like it was made in 2025: it's a maximalist indie rock album that embraces hi-fi production techniques. It presents Born Ruffians as the rare veteran act that can still make you feel like you’re discovering your new favourite band.
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