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There are no gimmicks. Everything's from our finger, our mouths."
- Steve Genua
In a music scene as rich and diverse as that of Toronto, Ontario's, the so-called "diamonds in the rough" can often be lost in the murky streets of a city that boasts more venues and wannabe rock stars than street corners. It would be a damn shame if the world let
A Match for the Curious slip through the cracks.
A Match for the Curious is a rock band. Based out of Toronto, the group consists of Robin Dworak on bass, Alex Zito on drums, Brandon Ross on vocals, Kamil Rzeznik and Steve Genua on guitar.
The band has been in the game for less than two years but has already managed to accomplish more than most bands do in a lifetime. A far cry from the typical house party first show, this Toronto five some first graced the stage at Warped Tour 2007. Not to rest on their laurels, they later travelled to Germany to play Emergenza and finished in 3rd out of more than 6,000 international bands, receiving top honours for Canada.
Though the band is a relative baby, the five members of
A Match for the Curious have decades of experience between them. Each has spent years performing in different bands and training dutifully in music theory.
Their songs -which can be classified in a thousand different pigeonholing genres but the band prefers to consider "just rock" - are different enough from the cookie-cutter music flowing from the veins of any given radio station, maintain a similar vibe.
Said simply, the band makes music that people want to listen to. The sound waves emanate elements of hard rock, pop, punk, and everything in between. Citing influences ranging from Sebastian Bach to Social Code.
A Match for the Curious is like a poppier Three Days Grace mixed with grittier Incubus, but it's the secret ingredient that takes these boys out of the sandbox and onto the main stage of the most prolific players' heart.
A Match for the Curious has that in spades, and it's evident every time their CD is slid into a player.
Still in the beginning stages, the band has taken up a guerrilla marketing approach: take over the iPods of everyone they know and inject them with
A Match for the Curious tunes. "You'd be listening to Linkin Park," says Genua, "or Evans Blue, and one of our songs will slip into the mix and it just fits seamlessly with the rest."
The band is currently working on promoting their first release, a self-titled, four-song EP. The disc, recorded with Chris Crerar at Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario, is the result of four months of laborious nitpicking. Each song on the album is meticulously written and recorded, worked and recorded, worked and re-worked until each member of the band has signed off that it's the best it can possibly be. Anything less than a radio hit would have been unacceptable. "Good enough" is not an option.
When the band takes the stage, however, all the meticulousness is instantly washed away and in its place comes a wave of overwhelming camaraderie; a brotherhood of musicians brought together by a love of the craft. They get excited, the crowd gets excited and that energy permeates the room before the first song finishes.
