"i don't believe in an interventionist god"

This is the face of a man who has undertaken the rigorous task of booking another tour. We're heading out again in May, again with the City Streets and it's going to be another chaotic whirlwind around North America. I've just got to finish a term of school--also known as "rehab"--before I flood my system again with the "joys" of living below the poverty line.

See you tonight at the Likwid Lounge. We're playing some new stuff.

Hang in there Mutt.




Love,
The Wild Dogs.

"red soaked cloud at my blood shot eye"

Edmonton's SEE Magazine had some pretty nice words to say about us in their year-end recap list. Check it out online here.

"To the surprise of pretty much no one, this hometown kid just couldn’t sit still for long. Between tours and releasing records at an alarming rate of speed last year, everyone’s favourite E returned home to blow the roof off Wunderbar."

- Fawnda Mithrush

"Everyone around Edmonton knows this prolific young musician, and his name is gaining recognition elsewhere. With his albums in constant rotation at CJSR, there’s no excuse for having not heard him. But if you haven’t, do yourself a favour and check him out."

- Mike Deane

Thanks for the good year guys. Take it easy and good luck in 2009.

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"everywhere i go i take a little piece of you"

Easily one of the best live sets I saw in 2008, the Italian Husbands--featuring my good friends Jake Hardy a.k.a. Holzkopf and Trevor Rutley of Gold Rush--tore the roof of the Wunderbar with an improvised Soft Cell cover. The beat is heavier than all hell and Jake's vocals escalate into madness. This sounds like the best death ever. The place had a lump in its throat and choked on the noise. Jake has since moved to Vancouver and this was one of his last Edmonton shows. Download the track here.

Check out the Italian Husbands website at belgravianblues.blogspot.com

The Italian Husbands - "Memorabilia"

Live at the Wunderbar, October 2008

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"when i was seventeen it was a very good year"

Eamon McGrath and the Wild Dogs- Here She Comes

Here's one from the archives: I just dug up this video of us playing what must be our third show, but it's the first show as the Wild Dogs as they are now. It's definitely Frank's first show with the band. Even though this was probably two years ago we all look fourteen years old and I don't think we all really knew the songs yet. It looks like I've still got my baby fat. Nobody had any idea who the fuck we were. Mark wasn't even in the band, the drummer here is Corin Roddick who left after two more shows or something. This was from a show with Slow Down, Molasses from Saskatoon, who came up to us afterwards and said we reminded them of the Black Lips. Frankie and I were slamming Olympia in the back alley before the show and we played with a post-rock band who booked us thinking it was going to be a folk set because I had only played acoustic shows in Edmonton up until that point.

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"ruck sack full of church"

2009: YEAR OF THE WHALE

It's official. Spread the news. Expect a full-length on White Whale Records sometime in the new year.

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"the fancy that i'm on has been going on too long"

Another Bear Claw junkie caught in the act. It's totally consumed her life and now she's robbing liquor stores and stealing from her parents, siblings and friends.

Here's a christmas present from the Wild Dogs, a brand new track we'll be opening the show on the 27th with. Download it here. It's called "Born to Lose." Merry xxxmas.

"Born to Lose"

Love,

The Wild Dogs.

"it's hard to see the ground from the withering heights"

It seems I've finally run out of road. Back home in Edmonton and ready to face another year. 2008 treated me well more or less but put a good pair of rings around my eyes.

On January 27th at Edmonton's Velvet Underground/Starlite Room I'm playing two country sets with the Whiskey Dogs, an acoustic Dr. Jekyll to the Wild Dogs' Mr. Hyde. We're going to play some Merle songs, some stuff by Gram and the Burritos I'm sure, maybe some Appalachian shit or something.

Then on Friday, February 13th the Wild Dogs will play their first loud Edmonton show in over two months. It's good to be home.

January 27th

EAMON McGRATH & THE WHISKEY DOGS

w/ special guests

@ The Velvet Underground

February 13th

THE WILD DOGS

@ The Likwid Lounge

Love, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Whatever.

The Wild Dogs.