The Low Sixes

Two guys walking into a bar would be typically be a setup for some kind of a wisecracking cautionary tale. But in the case of Montreal’s The Low Sixes, it’s the impractical origin story that led to the birth of the punk-injected power pop band.

The four-piece — assembled from a hefty lineup of the scene’s indie veterans – began unassumingly enough as singers and guitarists Jonathan Cummins and Brendan Drouillard returned home from an extensive European tour with their other project, heavy psych rock band USA Out of Vietnam, and debriefed over some drinks at the local waterhole, Barfly.

The conversation quickly turned to developing a new project and, soon enough, the two were recruiting friends, drummer/singer John Milchem (Starvin Hungry) and bassist/singer Jon Asencio (from Cummins’ other band, renowned ‘80s/’90s Montreal indie punk band Doughboys), to form The Low Sixes. Asencio has since departed the band with mutual friend Alan Hildebrandt (Priors) taking over bass duties though Ascencio appears on the band’s debut, The Oshawa Tree, out October 4, 2024 on Forge Again Records.