Bleeker, Kasador

Thursday, October 29th 

Bleeker 

Kasador 

The Exchange - 2431 8th Ave 

This is an all ages & Licensed event 

Doors at 7:00pm 

Tickets on sale at TheExchangeLive.ca and Vintage Vinyl soon. 

$25 adv / $35 door 

Bleeker is an alternative rock band from Orillia, Ontario, recognized for their high-energy performances and knack for crafting infectious, hook-driven songs. Since their debut, the band has earned over 56 million streams, building a dedicated international following with their distinctive sound and undeniable stage chemistry.

Formed by vocalist Taylor Perkins, guitarist and brother Cole Perkins, bassist Mike Van Dyk, and drummer Chris Dimas, Bleeker broke onto the scene with their 2016 full-length debut “Erase You”. The album’s lead single, “Highway,” topped Canadian rock radio, reached the top 10 in the U.S., and gained airplay across Europe. The success of the track earned the band a Juno Award nomination and recognition at the Radio Music Awards. 

Following their breakout, Bleeker toured extensively across North America and Europe, appearing at major festivals and supporting acts such as The Struts, Papa Roach, Airbourne, Dinosaur Pile-Up, and Sublime with Rome. These performances cemented their reputation as a compelling live act and helped grow their fanbase across multiple continents. 

In 2024, Bleeker released “Messed Up”, which frontman Taylor Perkins described as the band’s most “genuine work to date.” Tracks like “Make It Better” and “Let’s Go” found traction on radio and streaming platforms, with “Let’s Go” emerging as a breakout sports anthem. The song was prominently featured throughout the 2024 NHL playoffs, licensed by EA Sports for NHL25, and used by the UEFA European Championships in broadcast segments, including England’s team montage. It was also featured in arena content as the Edmonton Oilers hype song, Team Canada’s intro during the Four Nations tournament, and throughout the NCAA Frozen Four. Globally, the track received editorial support across Spotify, appearing on key playlists in the U.S., Canada, UK, France, Germany, Austria, and Ireland. 

In early 2025, Bleeker signed an exclusive publishing deal with Downtown Music Publishing, after catching the ear of Chief Creative Officer Jedd Katrancha. This marked the beginning of an intensely creative period for the band, during which they developed material for an upcoming EP and two full-length albums. 

Bleeker is currently rolling out new music from their EP “Fuck You I’m Leaving”, which includes the singles “Hey Man” and “Florida.” The EP is slated for release in June 2025, with a full-length follow-up to “Messed Up”scheduled for early 2026. 

With a growing global footprint, a strong catalogue, and a commitment to authenticity and innovation, Bleeker continues to evolve as one of Canada’s most compelling voices in alternative rock.

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, 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?

That’s the question Kasador asks on “Golden,” their new single which released on December 17. 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.

“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. 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.

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 to become a live-performance favourite. (It’s also the first Kasador track to feature a dog.) “Butterflies,” a song the band has workshopped for a few years, emerges here as a thundering grunge anthem, with Baker’s bass and Adubofuor’s stupid-good drum groove driving the train while Wyatt and Draper trade slashing guitar parts.

“Revolution No. 10,” written with and featuring Ottawa 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?”

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