New Friends Fest ’25 lineup: OTMOP, Snowing, Home Is Where, State Faults, YAAMC & more

Toronto emo/screamo DIY festival New Friends Fest has a banger lineup every year and 2025 is no exception. In the big font are two reunited, influential, veteran bands, On The Might of Princes (who now have Rachel Rubino of Open City and Bridge and Tunnel filling in for the late Jason Rosenthal on lead vocals) and Snowing. (PS, New Friends Fest is not to be confused with Best Friends Forever, which Snowing also play.)

Elsewhere on the lineup, there’s also kinds of other cool stuff, including early 2010s-era Oakland band Beau Navire (which also appears to be a reunion), The Saddest Landscape, Rolo Tomassi, Home Is Where, State Faults, Gillian Carter, Your Arms Are My Cocoon, Animal Faces, Senza, Respire, Tenue, Sadness, Piri Reis, Satón, Capacities, Slow Fire Pistol, Nuvolascura, bulletsbetweentongues, Edhochuli, Botfly, Mt. Oriander, Swimming, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and more.

This all goes down from August 1-3 at Toronto’s Lithuanian House. Tickets for this killer fest are on sale now. See the poster with the full lineup below.

New Friends Fest ’25 Lineup
On the Might of Princes
Snowing
Beau Navire
The Saddest Landscape
Rolo Tomassi
Home Is Where
State Faults
Gillian Carter
Your Arms Are My Cocoon
Animal Faces
Senza
Respire
Tenue
Sadness
Piri Reis
Saton
Capacities
Slow Fire Pistol
Nuvolascura
Lori
Life
Bulletsbetweentongues
Edhochuli
Botfly
Mt. Orlander
Swimming
Drought Bloom
Dream
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Pyre
Piper Maru
Gingerbee
Idialedyournumber
Cease
Kaiba
Keening