Weakened Friends came out of Portland, Maine a decade ago, built around the songwriting partnership of Sonia Sturino and Annie Hoffman, who are now married.
The pair originally formed the band in 2015 with drummer Cam Jones in the early years before current drummer Adam Hand took over in 2019.
The trio have released three LPs via the New Jersey indie label, Don Giovanni Records: their debut, Common Blah (2018), Quitter (2021) and in October 2025 Feels Like Hell.
Recently they ventured into the Setlist Studios to talk with Bree Wilde about a few of their favorite concerts they attended as fans (most without having to sneak in), and their friend who is in Wikipedia.
Click the video above for the whole interview or keep scrolling for a few of the highlights.
Metric, The Kool Haus, Toronto, Feb 25, 2006
Sonia Sturino: So, it was a snowstorm, first of all, and I was 14 and me and my friend Jess went.
It was the best experience of my life. I had already liked this band for a little bit. I had already started playing guitar a few years before and playing music, but I just remember that kind of performance where it's just like this really cool person.
Emily Haines is just iconic and it was during the Live It Out record. And I just remember just how she commanded the stage and how she took over that space and how just they were so tight as a band and the production and the rawness of it all was just so cool, especially to my 14-year-old brain.
I was just like, these are the coolest people I've ever seen in my life.
Sonia Sturino: Really? I bet. She's just the coolest human. It's one of those people who's just like cool the bone.
Bree Wilde: I don't know if you get the Metric newsletters, but even the newsletters are such a joy to read.
Sonia Sturino: It's like a poem.
Bree Wilde: Yes, right?
Sonia Sturino: Her dad was a poet, and she's a poet, so it runs in the family.
Bree Wilde: Let's go to the Eras Tour for just a little bit.
Adam Hand: Yeah, of course. I love talking about this.
Bree Wilde: You went three times?
Adam Hand: Technically two times.
Sonia Sturino: Sorry my bad.
Annie Hoffman: Why is it technically?
Sonia Sturino: Because I was wrong.
Bree Wilde: Still going to the Eras Tour twice is a big thing.
Adam Hand: Yeah. It was awesome... but just the spectacle of that whole shebang-- I remember certain parts of it, but I think it's just it was an assault on the senses.
Bree Wilde: Like all of your senses?
Adam Hand: Yeah. Just everything.
Sonia Sturino: Wait. Weren't you at the crazy rain day?
Adam Hand: The rain was in between the two days I went.
Sonia Sturino: That's bummer. I love a good rain show.
Nate the Shrug Guy
Bree Wilde: How did you get in to the Eras Tour?
Adam Hand: I have a friend, Nate Rogers, who's really good at getting stressful concert tickets. He pulled it off for all of us.
Sonia Sturino: He is famously the shrug guy on Wikipedia.
Adam Hand: If you go to Wikipedia.com and type in the word "shrug," the guy doing this is our friend Nate Rogers.
Sonia Sturino: That's him trying to find tickets.
Adam Hand: He found them that night. And then the Sunday, my aunt and my two young cousins had gotten VIP tickets and my older cousin didn't want to go.
Sonia Sturino: What?
Adam Hand: I'm not going to put her on blast right now why. She had a good reason. And so, I went in her stead and got to do it again.
Sonia Sturino: You volunteered as tribute. You really took the bullet for that. "I guess I'll go."
Click the video way up top to hear the whole interview. It's fun!
Weakened Friends North American 2026 Tour
3/31 The Truman, Kansas City, MO
4/1 Varsity Theater, Minneapolis, MN
4/2 Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL
4/3 Saint Andrew's Hall, Detroit, MI
4/4 House of Blues Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
4/5 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
4/7 Empire Live, Albany, NY
4/8 Citizens House of Blues, Boston, MA
4/9 Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
5/15 Pouzza Fest 2026, Montreal, QC, Canada
