John Kristjan Samson is a rock musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is a singer-songwriter and is currently front man for the Canadian indie rock band The Weakerthans. He played bass in the punk band Propagandhi during the mid-1990s but is probably best known for his current role fronting The Weakerthans. Samson is married to Canadian singer-songwriter Christine Fellows. Background In 1993, while still a member of Propagandhi, he released a fifteen-track solo album on cassette tape, entitled Slips and Tangles. Six of these songs were featured on a split album shared with the now-defunct punk band Painted Thin in 1995. Following the critical success of The Weakerthans, Samson's side of the split was re-released online by G7 Welcoming Committee as a digital EP in 2006. In addition to his musical pursuits, Samson is a founding member of Arbeiter Ring Publishing, a Winnipeg, Manitoba publishing coll