- Krill has signed with Ground Control Touring for live music and touring representation worldwide, excluding Europe/UK.
- Agent Andrew Stocker will handle bookings.
- The signing follows Krill's 2026 reactivation with a new lineup and its first newly recorded song in a decade, "Commemorative Plaque."
- Krill stays with Exploding In Sound for releases.
Krill, the Boston-formed indie rock band, has signed with Ground Control Touring (GCT) for worldwide live music and touring representation, excluding Europe and the UK. Agent Andrew Stocker will lead the booking relationship.
Founded in Allston in 2010 by singer-bassist Jonah Furman, guitarist Aaron Ratoff, and drummer Ian Becker, Krill built a cult following through Boston’s DIY basement scene, releasing three albums, including 2015’s A Distant Fist Unclenching on Exploding In Sound. The band played its final show that October. In 2019, the members regrouped as Knot, releasing a self-titled LP in 2020, also on Exploding In Sound.
This year, Furman and Becker reactivated Krill itself, bringing in guitarist Andrew Clinkman of Moontype and Spirits Having Fun in place of Ratoff.
The retooled trio played a Chicago show in July before headlining Boston’s NICE Fest, then released “Commemorative Plaque”, a track built around an ode to Aretha Franklin‘s “Call Me”, featuring guest spots from violinist Macie Stewart and saxophonist Will Greene.
The GCT deal is Krill’s first formal booking representation after more than a decade of self-booked runs. It lands amid an active stretch for the agency, which recently brought on Montreal’s TOPS for worldwide bookings outside Europe/UK, Africa, and the Middle East, signed hyperpop artist Joey Cash for a similar worldwide-minus-Europe/UK territory, and reunited with longtime client Miniature Tigers.
Takeaways
Going straight from zero representation to a boutique agency built on cult indie loyalty shows how fast a reunion can professionalize once new music enters the picture.
Pairing Krill with Stocker, at an agency already comfortable with left-of-center and reunion-era acts, suggests GCT is building the band’s live footprint deliberately rather than rushing them onto festival bills. Keeping Exploding In Sound in place for recorded output confirms this is strictly a touring-side move.
Could this open the door for other 2010s Boston DIY bands to reunite and sign with agencies? Will GCT push for bigger 2027 festival slots, or keep the Krill reunion low-key?
