The Dirty Nil bring their co-headlining tour to San Francisco!

June 15, 2023

San Francisco, get ready for a fun exciting show next week! The Dirty Nil are bringing their co-headlining tour with Daniel Romano’s Outfit. They are set to play at The Independent next Tuesday, June 20th. You can purchase tickets HERE.

These Ontario rockers released their fourth album, Free Rein to Passions, via Dine Alone Records. Click here to stream + order the record now.

About the album

On Free Rein to Passions, the band followed their instincts down to the note to produce their most authentic work to date. The Nil‘s back-to-basics approach was a direct reaction to their previous record, 2021’s Fuck Art, a creative process that brought too many industry people whispering in the band’s ears, telling them how to polish and tweak their songs to fit on the radio or streaming playlists or whatever other arbitrary whims the modern music machine demands.

“There were all these expectations and pressures, people telling us to try this or that,” says Bentham. “We’re by no means the biggest band in the world, but in our ecosystem it became hard to try to make all these people happy. We were given challenges, and I think we met them, but getting to that place, it made me realize: ‘If we go any further in this direction, then I don’t know what we’re doing anymore.’ It had gotten to a point where the creation wasn’t very fun.”

To get you ready for the show, check out their latest video for “Blowing Up Things In The Woods,” an ode to the simple joys of fireworks, explosions, and pyrotechnic annihilation and an homage to their adolescence.

Check out the upcoming tour dates and get yourself to a show!