Lions in the Street

For two decades, the Vancouver band’s dedication to its craft made them obscure live masters of open-tuned ballads and coarse rockers, with almost no albums available.

Lions in the Street’s upcoming album, Moving Along (2024), is full of their trademark swing and swagger. LITS began their career by signing then walking away from big labels, earning them a spot on the music industry’s blacklist.

But despite experiencing the best and worst of the of old music business—hanging out with Todd Rundgren; an A&R guy almost getting fired just for going to see them play—the band kept going.

Now the digital era has given their music a new life, allowing them to release largely-unheard music—finally finished and remixed/remastered.