Street Pharmacy is a MéTIS Led alternative reggae rock band hailing from Welland, Ontario, Canada. Since its humble beginnings in August of 2006, Street Pharmacy has recorded and released 5 full length albums and has sold an upwards of 15 000 copies to date through consistent touring in Canada. Street Pharmacy’s second release “Free Delivery” (2007) has become a staple on many college radio stations in Southern Ontario which has built the band an extremely loyal fan base among college students in the area (Approx 300 000 Spotify streams). Songs such as “Welcome 2 tha Street Pharmacy”, “Sober State of Fame”, “Hey Elizabeth”, "in This Town” and “Degenerate” have become fan favourites and continue to transcend audiences throughout the last decade and into this new one.

Street Pharmacy’s D.I.Y. ethic continued to enthrall fans with their third release and first concept record entitled “The Legacy of Rudy” (2009), which was completely self-financed and recorded in Santiago de Cuba. The album also includes a 30-minute documentary that depicts the trials and tribulations involved with recording in a foreign country along side 5 professional, non-English speaking Cuban musicians.

In August of 2009, after a sold-out performance at their own DIY inspired festival “Bridgestock”, to which 2100 people were in attendance of, Street Pharmacy began working with Handsome Boy/Fontana North to distribute their newest LP. The Legacy of Rudy album sold 1000 copies in the first 2 weeks of its release. Since then, it has attained over 50 000 streams on Spotify and over 100 000 streams on YouTube. Songs such as “The Honeymoon’s Over,” “When Rudy Met Paddy,” and “RSVP” have become staples in Street Pharmacy’s live set and receive airplay on CBC Radio 2 in Canada.

Street Pharmacy’s journey continued with a very successful stint on the popular MuchMusic television show “DisBand”. Street Pharmacy was given a unanimous “thumbs up” by the show’s judges and built a very sturdy relationship with CANADA'S PREMIER MUSIC VIDIEO CHANNEL. In November of 2010, Street Pharmacy’s single “Stone, Bricks & Mortar” reached number 1 on MuchMusic'S UR11. The video received a MuchFACT grant and was directed by esteemed music video director “X” (Justin Bieber, Drake). In 2011, Street Pharmacy received the Independent Juried Sound Recording Loan ($25 000) FROM FACTOR for their album “Divorce” as well as a $15 000 Marketing and Promotions grant. THE CANADIAN GRANT SYSTEM HELPED STREET PHARMACY TO REMAIN INDEPENDeNT AND FIND CONSISTENT RADIO PLAY ON BOTH TERRESTRIAL AND satellite RADIO FORMATS IN CANADA.

At the end of 2011, Street Pharmacy worked on a collaboration track with the globally massive Canadian pop act Walk off the Earth entitled “Home” that went viral and has garnered and astonishing 4.39 million views and over 25 000 likes on Youtube. Since then, Street Pharmacy has performed with Walk off the Earth in both Canada and the USA. Street Pharmacy’s tracks “Wristwatch Severance” and “Stone Bricks & Mortar” also become popular tracks on American college radio earning a total of 642 spins over various U.S, campus formats.

Street Pharmacy’s 2012 release entitled “Alimony” (44 103 Spotify streams) was recorded at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton, ON. The album was completely funded through a Ruby on Rails platform-type crowd sourcing program. The band raised $13 540 through this program to record and market the EP. They sold online tickets for their fans to watch a livestream of them write and record the album in Catherine North Studios. The first 5000 participants became “founding fans” and received access to a website where they would receive all of Street Pharmacy’s releases into perpetuity as well as rare B-sides and videos. Street Pharmacy’s current Founding Fan E-mail list sits at over 9000 addresses. The sixth track on Alimony entitled “It Ain’t That Crazy” features American hip-hop legend A-Plus from the platinum selling 90s rap group Souls of Mischief. A-Plus was also a producer of the aforementioned group’s number one single “93 ‘Til Infinity.”

In 2014, Street Pharmacy was awarded $25 000 for the Factor Juried Sound Recording Loan and Marketing and Promotion Grant. This opportunity saw Street Pharmacy record and release the “Pharmanomics” (88 507 Spotify streams) EP and full-length album which features production contributions from Gggarth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers), Chin Injeti (Eminem), Gianni Luminati & Sarah Blackwood (Walk off the Earth), Ian Blackwood (The Artist’s Life), Adam Tune (Keys N Krates, Street Pharmacy’s “Free Delivery” album), and Will Marr & John Doherty (illScarlett). Upon release of the EP in June 2014, Ryan embarked on a self-organized acoustic tour of every HMV in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. This tour resulted in the five song EP selling 900 physical copies in its first two weeks, with over 1000 downloads on singles such as “Red Light Midnight” and “To My High School Friends.” In January of 2015, Street Pharmacy released the full-length version of “Pharmanomics” and embarked on a tour of Ontario and Quebec. The eleventh track on the album entitled “The Morning Song” received praise from various SiriusXM music directors and programmers. The song became MCR165’s morning show theme song, which resulted in substantial financial compensation through repeated play and royalty generation. 

In 2016, Street Pharmacy was asked by Brock University to write and record their official fight song, “We Are Ready.” The song is used in various advertisements for Brock University as well as during sporting events.

Street Pharmacy began work on their 6th full-length album entitled “Delusional Discourse” in early 2018. The album will tie together all five previous records by combining elements of reggae-rock and hip-hop while taking a conceptual approach to story-telling in song. In January of 2018, Street Pharmacy released its first single from the Delusional Discourse concept record entitled “Roaming Souls” and headed out on the Great Welland Migration Tour — a 15 date tour with fellow Welland band Revive the Rose across Southern Ontario and Quebec. The single “Roaming Souls” was picked up by The Indigiverse (CH. 165) on SiriusXM and has received an upwards of 3000 spins to date. As a result of the pandemic, Street Pharmacy continued to release singles every quarter. Songs such as "In This Town," Wait," "When I Find H.E.R.,"  "Lovers Rock Hall of Fame" And "Descolada" have received similar support at radio. In June of 2020, Street Pharmacy collaborated with fellow reggae rockers Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad on the Politically Charged "They Don't Give A $$$$." The song was featured by Rootfire and has received over 20 000 spins since its release. is anticipated that Street Pharmacy will release Delusional Discourse in its entirety Complete with a one-of-a-kind Vinyl board game in the Spring of 2022.