"our album went aluminum"

GOLD RUSH #1 COMES OUT TODAY.


GOLD RUSH
w/ Field & Stream
Fire Next Time
@ Likwid Lounge

"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.

"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

"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.

Eamon McGrath & Peacemaker - Live at the Lo Pub, June 30th 2009

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

"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.