About
The Boss with Friction
The Boss with Friction is a 1970s analog soul and heavy funk outfit formed by five high school friends from Scarborough, Ontario. After spending two decades paying rent by playing tired covers at suburban weddings, they finally channeled their pent up frustration into original music. Their sound is a sweat soaked collision of Isaac Hayes, early Santana, and relentless Latin rock.
The Long Version
The Boss with Friction did not form in a dusty studio vault in 1974. They are a crew of five Gen X friends from Scarborough, Ontario, who have been jamming together since high school. For the past twenty years, they paid their bills by playing tired covers at depressing real estate networking events and suburban weddings. All that pent up frustration from watching realtors chew appetizers while butchering Stevie Wonder songs eventually boiled over.
The result is a devastatingly heavy 1970s analog soul and funk collective. The band operates as a relentless wall of sound known as Friction, anchored by foundation cracking basslines, weeping wah-wah guitars, and furious Latin percussion. Leading the charge is The Boss, a monolithic frontman channeling the deep, unbothered baritone gravity of Isaac Hayes. Drawing heavy inspiration from early Santana, Parliament, and classic blaxploitation soundtracks, their music is a gritty critique of modern corporate misery and the daily grind.
Listeners can expect dark, dryly witty lyricism delivered over relentless analog grooves. It is music built for the commute, the cubicle, and the eventual evacuation. After two decades of playing other people's songs, The Boss with Friction is finally burning the blueprints and playing their own.