Exchanging emails with... Ketch Harbour Wolves

Ketch Harbour Wolves, if you're unfamiliar, are a terrific band from Toronto. Their album Dead Calm Horizon was #1 on a lot of year end lists including: mine, herohill's and i(heart)music's. The insane part of this of course, is that they aren't charging anything for the album. Its free. Not free with the purchase of... just free. You can download it at: ketchharbourwolves.ca.

Oh, and I spent some time emailing back and forth with them last week-ish, so you can read the text of the emails on the Burgeoning Metropolis blog. If you're not interested in the emails, fine, I'm a little offended, but at least go download the album... did I mention its free?

Exchanging emails with... The Rest

My first email exchange with the Black Hat Brigade was, at least in my opinion, a resounding success so here's round 2 with The Rest from Hamilton. Adam Bentley, who is also involved with the record label Auteur Recordings and another band, Allegories, was good enough to chat with me about the Rest's new CD Everyone All At Once, the recording process, and beating up on teenagers in basketball.

Oh yeah, and thanks to the rest of the crew at the TMBC for the kind words and link ups to Rd 1, hopefully this will be equally entertaining...

See the full text plus mp3s here.