Taxi Girls – “Say It!”: Montreal’s Garage Punk Heroines Are Kicking Down Every Door

New single “Say It!” ignites the countdown to debut album Static, arriving June 26 via Stomp Records

There are cities that hum quietly after midnight.
And then there is Montreal, a city that rattles, smokes, spills beer on cracked sidewalks and keeps its pulse hidden somewhere between neon lights, cold cigarettes, and amplifiers turned too far up.

Out of that restless nocturnal bloodstream come Taxi Girls, the all-female garage punk force now ready to tear through 2026 with their explosive new single “Say It!”, released May 1 via Stomp Records as the first electric preview of their forthcoming debut album Static, due June 26. The band’s arrival marks one of the most urgent new entries in North American garage punk this year, already earning strong underground momentum after sharing stages with names such as NOFX, The Hives and Billy Talent.

Taxi Girls do not simply play punk rock.
They weaponize it.

Their sound feels like a speeding taxi fishtailing through Boulevard Saint-Laurent at 2 a.m.: snow gathering on the windshield, someone yelling from the backseat, cheap lager sweating in a gloved hand, lipstick smeared, the city roaring by in fragments. There is grit here, but also melody. There is rebellion, but also precision. It is garage rock with the urgency of confession and the swagger of a fist already halfway through the wall.

“Say It!” — The Sound of a Band Refusing to Whisper

 With “Say It!”, Taxi Girls kick the door open instead of politely knocking.

The track is compact, vicious, and irresistibly hook-driven:
2 minutes and 41 seconds of blown-out guitars, snapping drums, and dual vocals that swing from honeyed sarcasm to full confrontation without warning. Frontwomen Jamie Radu and Vera don’t just share the microphone, they spar with it, trading lines like arguments across a kitchen table at dawn.

The song captures the exact spirit suggested by its title:
the moment silence becomes unbearable and honesty becomes necessary.

There is no unnecessary polish. No artificial overproduction.
Only raw emotional combustion packaged inside a chorus that refuses to leave your head.

Fans of L7, Bikini Kill, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, The Donnas and Amyl and the Sniffers will immediately recognize the DNA, but Taxi Girls are not imitating their heroes. They are dragging that riot grrrl attitude through contemporary city anxiety and making it feel newly dangerous.

This is not nostalgia punk.
This is confrontation punk.

Static: A Debut Album Charged With Love, Loss, Mental Health and Power

If “Say It!” is the spark, Static promises to be the fire.

Set for release on June 26, 2026, the debut LP arrives as Taxi Girls’ first full-scale manifesto,  a record the band describes as brutally personal, emotionally exposed, and deeply rooted in themes of:

• love and emotional fracture,

• loss and unresolved grief,

• mental health struggles,

• postpartum depression,

• cycles of nostalgia,

• and the slow violent process of reclaiming personal power.

Rather than treating punk as pure aggression, Taxi Girls use distortion as a delivery system for vulnerability.

That duality may become the record’s strongest weapon.

Because underneath the ripped-speaker aesthetics lies something startlingly human:
women documenting collapse, confusion, and recovery without filtering any of it for comfort.

And according to the rollout already announced, “Say It!” is only the beginning.

A second single, “Secret Handshake,” arrives June 5, while “Midnight Mixtape” is set to become one of the focal tracks during release week, suggesting that Static will move between immediate garage-pop adrenaline and darker emotional excavation.

Montreal’s Underground Has Found Its New Loudest Voice

Montreal has always birthed artists with rough edges and stronger identities than mainstream formulas can comfortably handle.

Taxi Girls belong squarely in that lineage.

Formed in 2022, the quartet quickly became one of the city’s most talked-about underground live acts thanks to their relentless stage chemistry and refusal to sand down their sound for broader approval. Their performances have already placed them beside heavyweight names from punk and alternative circuits, and the wider industry has started to listen: even Iggy Pop has reportedly championed the band on his BBC 6 Music show, a signal that Taxi Girls are moving beyond local cult status into international radar.

That matters.

Because bands like this are rarely manufactured.
They are usually discovered in the wild, sweat-soaked, half-chaotic, and impossible to fake.

Taxi Girls carry that exact authenticity.

They sound like four people who have actually lived inside the things they are screaming about.

Why “Say It!” Hits So Hard in 2026

In a music landscape increasingly crowded with algorithm-polished alt-rock and aesthetically curated rebellion, Taxi Girls feel thrillingly inconvenient.

“Say It!” doesn’t ask for passive streaming approval.
It demands reaction.

Its feminist punk backbone is not reduced to sloganism; instead, it emerges through tone, confidence, and the refusal to dilute emotional directness. The band understands something many modern rock acts forget:

sometimes the most radical thing a song can do is simply tell the truth louder than everyone else.

That is where Taxi Girls become more than another garage revival band.

They become necessary.

Because Static is shaping up not as a retro exercise, but as a loud document of women refusing to romanticize their own struggles while still finding electricity inside survival.

Taxi Girls Are Not Asking Permission Anymore

With “Say It!”, Taxi Girls have announced themselves with the kind of force that does not leave much room for indifference.

This is fierce garage punk built on hooks, bruises, city grime, and emotional transparency.
>This is Montreal underground culture translated into amplifier damage.
>This is a debut era arriving already with its fists unclenched.

And if this first single is any indication, Static may become one of the year’s most compelling garage punk releases, not because it is louder than everything else, but because it sounds like it actually means every second of its noise.

Taxi Girls are not knocking at the door of modern punk.

They have already kicked it down.

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Written by NZIRIA TEAM MAGAZINE