Treefort Music Fest: Get to Know The Artists Playing in our Fort, in Boise
Each spring, Boise’s Treefort Music Fest transforms the city into a sprawling ecosystem of discovery — where basements, galleries, theatres, and street corners become temporary homes for artists pushing at the edges of sound. More than a traditional festival, Treefort thrives on unpredictability, inviting audiences to move instinctively between scenes and genres, guided less by hype and more by curiosity.
Among this year’s most compelling Canadian exports is a cohort of artists operating at the intersection of intensity and creativity. From industrial-leaning noise experiments to gothic post-punk and obliterating art-rock, these performers embody the restless creative spirit that is boiling to the surface in the Canadian music underground. Below, we spotlight five artists whose performances promise to leave a lasting imprint on Treefort’s labyrinthine stages, brought to you by REVERIE Magazine and Purple City Music Festival’s curation.
Still Depths
Still Depths is a Vancouver-based music project formed in Calgary in 2019. Their sound swerves from hardcore chaos and heavy industrial thrashing to frenetic noise improvisation and groove-driven post-punk. A Still Depths performance is unpredictable, fusing noise-drenched guitars, angular vocals, and live sampling. Read our cover story here.
SamWoy
To a growing group of those in the know, the name SamWoy evokes epic and exhilarating music that bends genres and smashes through the largely humdrum Canadian music landscape. Sam Woywitka is the mastermind behind the project, which has grown to encompass a collective of some of Montréal’s most dynamic musicians including Virginie B, Olivier Fairfield, and Jeffrey Mitchell.
VERTTIGO
Verttigo is a project that takes a lot of influence from dreampop, shoegaze and goth artists from the 80’s & 90’s, inspired by the darker side of music, art and film. They focus on creating a uniform aesthetic across all of our artistic mediums.
Bonnie Trash
Bonnie Trash is the project of twin sisters Emmalia and Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor, fusing post-punk austerity with goth rock’s brooding grandeur. Rather than fashioning nightmares into reality, the band paints reality as a nightmare. Like forebears Joy Division, Black Sabbath, and John Carpenter, Bonnie Trash finds horror in everyday atrocities. Read our cover story here.
PISS
PISS is a noisy, genre-bending four-piece punk band from Vancouver, B.C. The band combines music, poetry, sound collage, performance art, and various mediums of visual art to address complex themes that blur the line between personal and political. Read our cover story here.