Bearings

Hooky Canadian pop-punk combo Bearings rose out of the Ottawa underground with a series of respected independent EPs before signing a deal with Pure Noise Records to issue their full-length debut, Blue in the Dark, in 2018. They pumped up their sound on 2020's larger than life Hello, It's You, then scaled it back down on 2023's The Best Part About Being Human, their back-to-basics third LP. The quartet of vocalist Doug Cousins, guitarist Ryan Culligan, bassist Collin Hanes, and drummer Connor Kington met at Algonquin College in Ottawa, where they were all taking the same musi...