MIESHA & THE SPANKS
Think Peaches meets The Beaches.
Calgary two-piece Miesha & The Spanks, comprised of mixed-secwépemc singer-songwriter Miesha Louie and drummer Sean Hamilton, winners of the 2024 WCMA for Breakout Artist of the Year, are back with a new single, “Cut My Bangs”, on a new label, Red Music Rising. Produced by Juno Award winner Hill Kourkoutis (Aysanabee, Royal Wood, SATE), this is the first single since 2023’s Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi, and it is clear The Spanks are back and stronger than ever.
The song that kicks off 2026 is the empowering pop-pogo “Cut My Bangs, which is loosely about Miesha meeting her husband. “When you cut your bangs, you're over everything. You're just like, ‘Fuck it, this is something new.’ I cut my bangs and was like, ‘Okay, no more shit relationships; I'm just focused on my career,’ and then I met my husband,” she says. “Guess what? You can have both. When you cut something off and make a decision, good things usually happen.”
“This year marks 10 years of me and Sean playing together. This is where I envisioned the band going, what I imagined it would be like, the kind of music we're playing, the kind of stuff that we're able to put out. Our energy, our live show, it was always working towards this.”
Their first recording together is 2016’s Stranger EP, which carried recordings over to their 2018 Girls Girls Girls album, both produced by the Buzzcocks Danny Farrant and his studio partner Paul Rawson (released on Saved By Vinyl), which won three 2019 YYC Music Awards, Female Artist, Single of the Year, and Rock Recording of the Year. The pair then cut the independent Singles EP in 2021, produced by Leeroy Stagger, for which they won a 2022 YYC Music Award for Rock Recording of the Year.
For the next album, 2023’s Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi, they worked again with Farrant and Rawson, which pushed the band to the next level, winning CBC Searchlight’s 2023 Outstanding Indigenous Artist for the song “Dig Me Out,” 2024’s YYC Music Award for Single of the Year (“So Mad”), and the coveted 2024 Breakout Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards.
The reception enabled Miesha and the Sparks to tour Canada, the US, UK, Germany, Sweden and Poland. Highlights include Winnipeg’s Burt Block Party with Billy Talent, opening for Bif Naked on her Alberta club dates, and a slot on Poland’s Different Sounds Festival, as part of gender equity organization Keychange.
Manager: Carly McFadden
Label: Mint Records