{"id":36132,"date":"2025-07-31T05:12:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36132\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:12:20","slug":"polaris-prize-nominees-the-obgms-announce-us-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36132\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaris Prize nominees The OBGMs announce US tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto\u2019s The OBGMs, whose 2024 album SORRY, IT\u2019S OVER is up for this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/polaris-prize-announces-2025-shortlist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polaris Music Prize<\/a>, have announced a short run of US dates this fall, hitting Atlanta, Raleigh, Philly, DC, NYC, and Boston. All dates are listed below.<\/p>\n<p>The NYC show is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arlenesgrocerynyc.com\/upcoming-events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arlene\u2019s Grocery on November 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The OBGMs were one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/14-acts-were-excited-to-see-at-new-colossus-festival-this-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our picks for bands to check out at the 2025 New Colossus Festival<\/a> and we wrote: \u201cToronto\u2019s The OBGMs (which stands for \u201cThe oOohh Baby Gimme Mores\u201d) 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\u2019s 2020 album\u00a0The Ends was (also) shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, and their 2024 album SORRY, IT\u2019S OVER features contributions from METZ\u2019s Alex Edkins, PUP\u2019s Stefan Babcock, MSTRKRFT, and more. \u2018We\u2019ve always been a band about raw energy, but this time we wanted to share our soul,\u2019 frontman Densil McFarlane says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to SORRY IT\u2019S OVER below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theobgms.bandcamp.com\/album\/sorry-its-over\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SORRY, IT\u2019S OVER by The OBGMs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The OBGMs \u2013 2025 US tour Dates<br \/>11\/16 \u2013 Atlanta \u2013 Masquerade<br \/>11\/17 \u2013 Raleigh \u2013 Slims<br \/>11\/19 \u2013 Philadelphia \u2013 The Fire<br \/>11\/20 \u2013 Washington, DC, Pie Shop<br \/>11\/21 \u2013 NYC \u2013 Arlene\u2019s Grocery<br \/>11\/22 \u2013 Boston \u2013 Warehouse XI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto\u2019s The OBGMs, whose 2024 album SORRY, IT\u2019S OVER is up for this year\u2019s Polaris Music Prize, have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,26849],"class_list":["post-36132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-the-obgms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}