 
                        
                    Singer-songwriter [Jesse Matas](http://jessematas.com/) is best known as one-third of roots sensations the Crooked Brothers, but he's also one of my oldest pals. Having heard...
 
                        
                    One of Winnipeg’s finest musical sons, [Mike Koop](http://www.youtube.com/user/deathcureseverything) (of [the Bonaduces](http://thebonaduces.bandcamp.com/), [The Leftists](http://theleftists.bandcamp.com/releases), and at least 30,000 other punk, pop, folk and gospel projects...
 
                        
                    It's a conversation with young pop-punkers [The Brotherhood & Co.](http://www.facebook.com/TheBrotherhood.wpg/) (two of 'em, anyway) about their project’s roots, which go back almost 10 years,...