Bullmoose (aka Zach Dobbins) is a Canadian rock band formed in Elgin, Ontario in 1996. Three of the original members continue in the band, which today is based in Montreal. They include twin brothers Jeff Cowan (drums/vocals) and Seamus Cowan (bass/vocals) from Westport, Ontario and Eric Lawrance (guitar/vocals) from Delta, Ontario, who launched the band when they attended school at Montreal. The band performs in the rock music genre, citing experimental influences of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Bullmoose's independently released 2004 album Lessons Learned was recorded at Studios Piccolo in Montreal, engineered and co-produced by Bullmoose and Ryan Patterson (The Exchanges/Kill The Lights) with Mathieu Roberge and mastered by Ryan Morey at SNB. The band toured throughout Canada in 2005 for the Night Danger Tour in support of the record. They have attended Canadian music festivals including Canadian Music Week, North By Northeast, Festival of the Islands, Ottawa Bluesfest, Maximum Blues, Trudeau Park, Feb Fest and Indie Week. Since 2004, Bullmoose has shared the stage with Canadian acts such as Wide Mouth Mason, The Trews, The Illuminati, Trooper, Junior Pantherz, Mobile, Rocketface, C'Mon, Whitey Houston, The Swallows, The Jimmy Swift Band, The Royal Mountain Band, The Exchanges, The Golden Dogs, Theory of a Deadman, The Stampeders, Ronnie Hawkins and Jim Cuddy playing such venues as the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, Club Soda in Montreal and The Brickyard in Vancouver. They also received substantial airplay on Kingston's KRock 105.7 with the single "Poor Man's Hash". In the same year, the band also appeared on Made in Canada with TooTall on Montreal's CHOM-FM 97.7, Underground Sounds on McGill University's CKUT-FM 90.3.
The band's most recent release is 2007's Speaker to Speaker. Created at Breakglass Studio in Montreal under producer Jonathan Cummins (Bionic/The Doughboys), the album was engineered by Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes/Land of Talk/Wolf Parade), mastered by Ryan Morey (Arcade Fire/Malajube/The Stills) and designed by Todd Stewart at Breeree.