I am a marketing and sales professional living in eastern Canada. Music has always been a passion of mine, but my brother had the musical talent. I think I got the talent to hear what was good from listening to a huge amount. This was perhaps learned from my days in college radio, where I think I listened to twetny CD per week, to review and air clear.
I have been out of the scene for a long time, plus eastern Canada is very pretty, but has a pretty lousy music scene.
I have to say that among my favorite bands and sounds there is: Mineral, Sunny Day Real Estate, Rush & Yes(high school days), Radiohead, Coldplay, Nick Drake, Bad Religion, some Ska, Love Rhythm changes... and good lyrics.
Some bands that interest me lately are: Snow Patrol, Killers, Dogs die in hot cars, flogging Molly.