Nowadays Festival: Cootie Catcher at the Buffalo Club

NOWADAYS FESTIVAL 2026

COOKED RAW PRESENTS

cootie catcher live at the Buffalo Club

With special guests Sunforger and Green Eyes, Witch Hands

There’s an alternate reality where everyone makes a living wage and the cleanest buses you’ve ever seen arrive every other minute. Where the most intense songs are about confessing your love to a crush at the apple orchard, and where gentle feelings and chaotic energy are inseparable best friends. This is the timeline where cootie catcher is right at home. This Toronto based four-piece exudes both vulnerability and unbridled excitement, creating a sound that hypercharges the open-hearted tenderness of twee pop with spiraling synths and giddy electronics. Their new album Something We All Got is the clearest and most vibrant reading of cootie catcher’s vision yet, with songs of sweetness, nervousness, and expectancy that beam out unguarded.

cootie catcher rolls down hills and jumps through flaming hoops throughout Something We All Got without ever muting the visceral emotions that drive these songs. There’s a palpable tension between the band’s exhilarating sonics and the raw, often uneasy sentiments expressed, but it’s an integral part of what makes them unique. Rather than hide, cootie catcher is instead fearlessly direct, running full-speed toward every confusion and excitement, and embracing the reality they’re in.

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Sunforger make tenebrous guitar music, a sort of warped post-grunge brimming with spectral atmosphere and elliptical song structures. Montreal-based songwriter / vocalist / guitarist Spencer Curtis is joined by his sibling Piper Curtis on bass, longtime collaborator Chris Hauer on lead guitar, and former coworker Kier Graham on drums. Together they’ve released a self-titled album (2023), an EP (2025), appeared at international showcase festivals like POP Montréal, Sled Island, and (as of March 13, 2026) SXSW, and toured extensively in Canada and the eastern United States.

Sunforger’s new full-length, Weight, documents a hinge-point in the life of songwriter Spencer Curtis: the conflict between remaining in Montreal, and moving on to an idealized “elsewhere” with “greener grass.” The album strives to balance sunk costs against “the crushing weight of small town aging”, shedding burdens while seeking peace within and without. The music is Sunforger’s biggest and most expansive-sounding to date, combining screeching fuzz guitars, brooding vocals, and laser-focused rhythms with a newfound hi-fidelity sheen. Weight launches May 5, 2026 via a rare collaboration between the Cooked Raw label and Julia’s War Recordings.

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Green Eyes, Witch Hands are a duo of small-town Canadian brothers playing forward-thinking indie.