Thursday, December 17, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
"in the morning after the night i fall in love with the light"
Finished recording "Peace Maker" last weekend in Vancouver. It's almost there.
One of my favourite bands was playing but I missed it.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
"don't get him wrong, don't get him mad"
I spent the weekend in Vancouver finishing Peace Maker. It's almost there. Due out for May.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
"got snakes on the brain"
Meet the newest Cassettes Records signings, Krang. Featuring the legendary Parker James Thiessen on clarinet/digital delay pedal/telephone/no-input mixer/radisms. "Live From Planet D" is being mixed right now and it's monolithic. Prepare yourself.
This weekend i fly out to Vancouver to finish Peace Maker.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
"you've always gotta wait"
Eamon McGrath & The Regrets
w/ THE BEAUTIES
Live @ The Dakota
October 31, 2009
Back from Europe. Meet me at a bar and have a drink.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
"england is mine and it owes me a living"
Here are copies of the new "Saint Sebastian" album, a collection of some songs recorded from July-August 2009. Limited copies, hand-drawn covers, available at shows. Currently prepping for the upcoming European tour.
October 10
Nijmegen, NL
De Onderbroek
October 12
Le Havre, FR
MacDaid's
October 14
Wittenberg, DE
Crush-Club
October 15
Freiburg, DE
Beatbar
October 16
Offenbach, DE
Der Waggon
October 18
Winterthur, CH
Club Dimensione
October 19
Paris, FR
Le Rigoletto
October 20
Nancy, FR
Les 2 Palmiers
October 21
Kassel, DE
Kunsthochschule Underground
October 23
Metz, FR
L'Emile Vache
October 24
Peer, BE
De Wissel
October 25
London, UK
The Legion
October 26
London, UK
The Slaughtered Lamb
October 27
London, UK
Monkey Chews
Friday, September 18, 2009
"true love will find you in the end"
The Angel & Daniel Johnston w/ Eamon McGrath
"Speeding Motorcycle"
Knox United Church
Calgary, AB
September 7, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
"that rock and roll it saved my soul"
Daniel Johnston w/ Eamon McGrath & Peacemaker - Rock and Roll/EGA
Live at the Myer Horowitz Theatre
September 8, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
"i'm set up in salton city"
HIRED HANDS
Tonight at New City. w/ HARD FEELINGS from Vancouver and Edmonton's THE SOUTHERN PINK.
Trevor gave me a Peavey TNT 100 and I think I'm going to look for one.
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
"true love will find you in the end"
Opening for Daniel Johnston, September 8th at the Myer Horowitz.
Friday, July 31, 2009
"our album went aluminum"
GOLD RUSH #1 COMES OUT TODAY.
GOLD RUSH
w/ Field & Stream
Fire Next Time
@ Likwid Lounge
Sunday, July 19, 2009
"these dead souls they're not afraid i know"
Nominated for 2 categories in the Verge Music Awards: best artist and best album of the year. If you can, cast a vote for both if you've got a minute.
http://www.thevergeonline.com/vma/voting.php
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
"too much is not enough"
a giant whiskey bird flew above the van as we travelled... we threw everything we could at it to try and catch that thing... empty beer cans, discarded captain nemo undies, ryder's cell phone and wallet, even a piece of c.l.'s finger... it was all for naught though so eamon tried to throw it off our scent by burning his dirty ball hair... that seemed to work and we were running fast but not fast enough as that bird caught up to us a few hours out of saskatoon... i decided to try and bait it w/my middle finger stuck firmly in the air and the silly sucker went for it... we got him and stuffed him in an empty cola bottle and played soccer w/him in the alley behind the venue... touring really is never boring...
the rest is a bit of a blur really... I recall swimming in aids lake, putting something up grandma's nose, 'magic drink', playing music at soul crushing volume, making peace, destroying lives, old friends, new friends... and if anyone ever has the chance to spend Canada Day in the City of Winnipeg I strongly recommend you go for it... those wonderful friendly manitobans sure do...
- Jerf Sebastian, July 6, 2009
- Jerf Sebastian, July 6, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
"i will be alone again tonight my dear"
Just got back into my house after a whirlwind tour. Thanks to Dan Kapchinsky who recorded our Winnipeg show and posted it to be downloaded here. I swear to god I am getting you those records dude, I am really sorry it's taken so long, I have some time again so I'm going to make some new editions of those records and get them to all the people that asked me for them.
01 Badlands
02 Wrecking Ball
03 Welcome to the Heart
04 Big River
05 Holy Roller
06 Darby Crash and Burn Guitars
07 Here She Comes
08 Before You Got So Sad
09 Cadillac Rosetowne
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
"ride the tiger down river euphrates"
Here are the guys you're going to see bashing skins and banging strings with me on the White Whale dates. These two yahoos play in another great Edmonton band called Falklands. With me they're called Peacemaker.
Peacemaker is:
Jerf Sebastian - drums
Lee Klippenstein - bass
appearing:
June 25 - Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore
June 26 - Kelowna, BC @ The Habitat
June 27 - Calgary, AB @ The Palomino (Sled Island)
June 28 - Edmonton, AB @ The Hydeaway
June 29 - Saskatoon, SK @ Walker's Nightclub
June 30 - Winnipeg, MB @ Lo Pub
"half my life a ghost in the night"
Coming soon on Cassettes Records:
GOLD RUSH
Recorded on four-track and digital hardware pegged in the red. Drums and bass together on cassette tape and all the afterwards on one hot summer night, two cases of Pilsner, red eyes and a pot of coffee in each cup, stayed up until 7a.m. putting this one together. Snowy and cold punk rock, dirgy and sick pop that sounds like the city of Edmonton in the middle of June. Wet and dry, hot and cold, loud and quiet, somewhere between lying and telling the truth. Traces of Sebadoh, Eric's Trip, Black Flag, the Beatles, Califone, the Germs; somewhere underneath a liar of icy lo-fi slush.
Gold Rush is Trevor Rutley, Owen Strasky and Jon Mick. Expect this lo-fi beast out on July 24, 2009.
This is my pick for song of the year:
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
"the time will come when you add up the numbers"
The Cassette reel has been quiet lately. Cassettes Records isn't done, we just hit the pause button. Expect a self-titled full-length from the Edmonton band Gold Rush out on the Cassettes imprint pretty soon, we're shooting for the end of July. These guys like "Donairs, Lucky Lager, and Neil Young." The recordings on the website aren't the ones we're releasing, these are going to be brand new and drenched in tape, a lo-fi beast.
The Wild Dogs are also trying to release a four-song EP called "Borrowed Amps" that has been in the works for awhile, recorded by Jon Beleshko of Ursa Miner way back when. We're looking at the winter or late fall, when I have some more cash. We might put out a cassette, who knows?
European tour in the works for now, got a show in Germany and one in France. The White Whale tour starts in a week and a half, I'll introduce you to my new band Peacemaker in the next few days when I have some filthy mugshots.
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Monday, May 25, 2009
"running in on platform shoes with marshall stacks"
"Big River"
Live at the Verge on XM Satellite Radio
May 4th, 2009
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
"a design for life"
I finished recording yesterday and now it's off to the airport to go back home.
The album was recorded and mixed in three days by David Carswell and John Collins. I'm calling it Peace Maker.
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
"those dog-eared feelings never bite"
I'm off to Vancouver to record for a week. The tour is over, that was a really, really crazy one. To read about the whole thing check out this website.
eamonmcgrath.exclaim.ca
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Monday, May 4, 2009
"duluth to madison treatment bound"
Our friend Dan from Winnipeg recorded the set at the Royal Albert. You can download the whole thing here.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
"it's the boredom of a transgressive age that drives them to the arms of a punk rock stage"
The album comes out today.
The tour starts tomorrow.
Come out for a drink tonight.
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
"i'm not asleep when i'm lyin' down"
My friend Parker and I started a band called H-Moans.
Download our EP from our website here.
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
"drifting down into the abattoir"
Box of records came today, I'm now sitting on 200 copies of "13 Songs of Whiskey and Light" ready for release on April 28th. Right now I'm on my way to Breakfast Television on CityTV, I've got a head cold but I might mainline some Advil. News on the tour in May: there's been a venue change for Saskatoon, the show is now at Walker's Nightclub.
EAMON McGRATH
w/ The City Streets
April 29 @ Walker's Nightclub
$6
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
"damaged by me damaged by you"
Today is the Fix the Window Fundraiser, Matt and I play at 5:30 if you're interested.
Just booked a few more shows before the tour in May. All these are in Edmonton unless it says otherwise.
Friday, March 13
DV8 Lounge
Saturday, March 21
The Wunderbar
w/ B.A. Johnston
Thursday, March 26
Higher Ground (Calgary, AB)
Saturday, April 4
The ARTery
Sunday, April 26
"13 Songs of Whiskey and Light" CD Release Party
w/ MURDER BY DEATH
@ The Starlite Room
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Friday, March 6, 2009
"i don't mind dying but i hate to see my children cry"
First White Whale release
"13 Songs of Whiskey and Light"
due April 28
See you in May.
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
"it's sure been a cold cold winter"
Wild Dogs @ Likwid Lounge, Friday, February 13th:
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
"the low life has lost its appeal"
"Outlaw For Your Love"
live @ Brixx
January 27th, 2009
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
Monday, February 9, 2009
"hold my heart inside your hands"
Thanks for posting this Parker, just thought I'd put it up on here so people would have a chance to check it out. If you search for "Franktown" on YouTube, this video comes up. No shit.
The City Streets - My Best Plaid - Live in Saskatoon, SK - July 2008
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
"transformer man you run the show"
Here's some more photos from our last tour. These were taken in Vancouver/Seattle by our friend Ally. We're going out west again in May/June so hopefully we'll see you all again when we get there. Last Friday night the City Streets and us played in Calgary and the show was insane. Thanks a lot to Spencer and the Palomino for everything, you guys are rock and roll.
Love,
The Wild Dogs.
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