The Four Hard Rock Records From Husk by Scarecrowz Moving Their Spotify Top Ten This Week
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The Four Hard Rock Records From Husk by Scarecrowz Moving Their Spotify Top Ten This Week
Clutter Leads the Band’s Most-Played Songs, and Three More Album Tracks Sit Alongside It
Number one. That is where Clutter, the opening track of Husk by Scarecrowz, sits among the Ottawa hard rock band’s most-played songs on Spotify. Three more tracks from the June 2025 album sit in the same top ten. The album arrived 25 years after the band formed, and it now holds four of the ten biggest songs in the catalogue.
Scarecrowz’s songs are in the playlist below, and the band’s full run of coverage is collected on the Scarecrowz profile. Husk reached BestMusic.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news sites. Play it loud, then read on.
Four Husk Songs in the Scarecrowz Spotify Top Ten Show Who Is Listening to the Ottawa Band Now
The tally is simple to read. Clutter is first. Scream Cycle is seventh, Mega-Bitch (MB) is ninth and On & On is tenth. The other six places go to older songs: Bite The Bullet, ABC’s of Death, Burning Bridges, Back On Lonely Street, Skywalk and Reborn.
Spotify orders an artist’s top tracks by how much they are played now, not by release date. So the list is a current reading, not a career summary. It says that listeners arriving at Scarecrowz today are meeting Husk first, and that the album’s opener has become the band’s front door.
That matters for a catalogue band. Scarecrowz formed in Ottawa in 2000 and has a long list of records behind it. A new album rarely displaces a band’s older favourites so quickly. Here, the newest record holds the top position and three other entries, more than a year after release.
The people doing that listening are easy to describe. Husk is a ten-track hard rock and heavy metal album. It is written for listeners who want riffs first and choruses they can shout back. Its natural home is the Canadian rock audience, and its core is still in Ottawa and the towns around it.
Early Response
The first conversations about the album happened before it was out. On 14 May 2025, the Music On The Underground podcast featured the band in Episode 19. It introduced Scarecrowz as one of the oldest bands still active in the Ottawa scene and pointed listeners to On & On ahead of the album. That single now sits tenth in the band’s Spotify list, so the early push has held.
The conversation has continued since release. In April 2026, the YouTube channel AudioDriveX ran a video interview with the band. Coverage like this is small-scale, but it is steady. It reaches the same listeners who keep Husk in the top ten.
Casino Stages, Bar Rooms and a Shenkman Arts Centre Bill Keep the Scarecrowz Community Around Husk Active
The live calendar is where the album’s audience gathers in person. On 7 November 2025, Scarecrowz played the Lac Leamy Casino in Gatineau, Quebec. In 2026, the band has played Sonny’s Bar & Grill in Ottawa twice, in February and April. It has also played The Atria in Oshawa in May, the Rainbow Bistro in Ottawa in July and Buster’s Bar & Grill in Kanata in September.
The next dates spread the circuit further. On 16 October, the band plays Finnigan’s Road House in Pembroke with Darren Michael Boyd and Sierra Leveque. On 30 October, it plays the Overtime Sports Bar in Kingston. Then, on 20 November, it shares a bill with The Consequents and LOVE+MAYHEM at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Orléans.
That last date is the biggest room on the list. According to the 613today listing, the show is in the Harold Shenkman Hall, a 500-seat theatre, with tickets at $24.50. For a band that has spent most of the year in bars, a seated hall is a different kind of entry. It puts Husk in front of an audience that has come to listen.
Taken together, the shows describe a regional community rather than a touring market. The same Ottawa rooms come round more than once, Eastern Ontario towns fill the gaps, and the occasional larger stage gives the core audience a night out. That is how a hard rock album stays in rotation for more than a year.
Who Husk Is For
Husk suits listeners who like hard rock with weight and a classic rock core. Fans of Alice in Chains will recognise the heavy, downtuned grind that the band brought to Dirt in 1992, where grunge songs carried metal riffs. Listeners who follow Danko Jones will hear the riff-first approach the Toronto band built its records on. Those are short, direct songs aimed at a live room. Fans of Monster Truck will find a similar balance of classic rock roots and heavier guitar tone, the mix the Hamilton band put on Sweet Mountain River in 2013.
Start with Clutter, since that is where most listeners begin, then play Scream Cycle and On & On to hear why they have joined it in the top ten.
From the BestMusic.News Curator Team: “Four places in a band’s own top ten is a real result for a catalogue act. It means the new record is doing the recruiting, and the shows on the calendar are where those new listeners turn into an audience.”
Stream Husk on Spotify and follow Scarecrowz on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and X. The earlier album Dusk Of Another Dawn is on Spotify and Bandcamp, and show dates are on the band’s official website.
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