Billy Talent

Billy Talent singer Ben Kowalewicz has been front and centre in one of the greatest Canadian rock n' roll success stories of the post-millennial era. But today, with the release of the long-lived Toronto quartet's third album looming large on the horizon and the final master ofBilly Talent IIIstill sitting in an unopened FedEx envelope delivered just hours before to his home, the normally hyperactive front man is betraying neither cockiness nor complacency as he reclines in the band's cramped east-side rehearsal space and candidly assesses what might await the group in the summer of 2009.