Matthew Good got his musical education doing the folk-rock scene from coast to coast before succumbing to stress in 1995 while backstage at the Sidetrack Cafe. Being an acoustic guitar-strumming folkie finally took its toll in Edmonton, so he fired his band, threw out nearly three hours of original music and wiped the slate clean for his new career as a rock musician. The Matthew Good band was born and beat around the usual Toronto music scene haunts and following the release of their first independent CD 'Last Of The Ghetto Astronauts' in 1995, struck up a music publishing deal with EMI Music in 1996. The 'Underdogs' album went Platinum in sales, spawned several hit singles and videos and gained the act three Juno nominations. The former debuted in the No. 1 spot on SoundScan Canada's album charts for the week of Sept. 12, selling close to 25,000 copies.
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