BOB-Sled 2026 presents: PACKS & Sour Widows with Mossy Dole and Victrix
Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary
http://thepalomino.ca/
18+ with government issued identification
When: Wednesday January 21, 2026
Doors: 7:00pm / Music 7:30pm
Admission: $26.00 advance at www.showpass.com
Festival wristbands provide access to all shows for only $88!
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!
PACKS (Toronto, Ontario)
Toronto’s PACKS make music that’s like leafing through a diary entry of a time without visible movement, a subtle beauty that appears only when paying close attention. A series of intriguing, lo-fi singles trickled out on Bandcamp, and on the strength of these demos alone the band began sharing stages with artists such as Odetta Hartman. Less a band that is a product of the internet than one whose quiet and acute observations make them impossible to be ignored, the quartet led by Madeline Link has carved out a growing space past the Canadian country lines where their initial demos were born. Written in two different settings, between the city limits of Toronto where Link was living in 2019, and the Ottawa suburbs where she was quarantined with her parents in the spring 2020, both remain complementary emblems of self-reflection and wry observation of the mundanity of daily life.
https://packstheband.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/packstheband
Sour Widows (Oakland, California)
Sour Widows has served as an essential outlet for Sinaiko, Thomson, and drummer Max Edelman, a way to process real-time woes so as to transmute them into something beautiful, useful, real, and lasting. It has been an anchor, too, keeping them lashed to reality as the world roiled around them. Revival of a Friend is their collective testament to that process, an hour-long lesson in endurance that is years in the making. Inspired by the folk singing of their youth, the grit and grace of Joni Mitchell, the slowly spiraling dazzle of Duster and Bedhead, and the steady angularity and sudden snarl of Slint, Revival of a Friend fully recognizes the arbitrary cruelty of individual existence and finds that some of the best ways beyond it are to share harmonies, a tangle of electric guitars, or a song that simply imagines hope somewhere on the other side. Methodically built over many years with longtime friend and trusted drummer Max Edelman, this is a poignant and gripping record about the pain of growing up and getting on with it.
https://sourwidows.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/sourwidows
Mossy Dole (Calgary, Alberta)
Experimental bedroom pop, beats and lofi neo-psychedelia from Puppet Wipes’ Kayla Jane MacNeill
https://looksreal.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/mossy_place
Victrix (Calgary, Alberta)
Connecting the dots between bedroom folk, chamber pop, and the darker side of dream pop, Victrix weaves together the more confessional side of classic songwriting with a strong penchant for synths, drum machines, and tastefully deployed melodic ornamentation, betraying an abiding interest in the granular details of songcraft and arrangement, very much inhabiting its own particular sonic universe.
https://victrix.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/victrixband
In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, the Iyarhe Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations), the Battle River Territory of the Métis Nation of Alberta Districts 5 & 6, and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!