The Dirty Nil is a Canadian rock band from Hamilton, Ontario, who won the Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2017. The band consists of singer and guitarist Luke Bentham, drummer Kyle Fisher, and bassist Sam Tomlinson.

The band members began playing together in high school, and formed The Dirty Nil in 2006. They released their debut single “Fuckin’ Up Young” in 2011, and began touring North America, performing in clubs and at festivals. They followed with a series of further singles and EPs and released their full-length debut album Higher Power in 2016. Following that album’s success, they released Minimum R&B, a compilation of the early singles and EP tracks in 2017.