"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:

Gold Rush - Ghost in the Night

myspace.com/goldrushed

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"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.