Max Bornstein is a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, Canada. Max began studying drums with one of Toronto’s top musicians, Chris Lesso.
Max’s journey with music began in 2006, when he first saw the film That Thing You Do! Once he laid eyes on the hunky, debonair drummer, Guy Patterson, the film’s protagonist, the switch flipped. Soon after, Max joined forces with Emmett S Webb, starting their first band, and creating a long-lasting collaborative partnership which is still active today. While attending Rosedale Heights School of th
e Arts, the pair met Jacob Switzer and Fox Martindale. The quartet began playing together in separate projects, and eventually realized that the combination of these numerous incarnations could add up to something spectacular. The group created a new garage rock band, Goodbye Honolulu, and their own record label, Fried Records. The label and art collective began to release music online from local Toronto acts, in the same vein of lo-fi tunes created by the founders. To date, Fried Records has over 10 artists on their roster, spanning the distance from Toronto to Montréal. The collective also hosts regular all-ages shows in Toronto, which are consistently sold out. Goodbye Honolulu released their debut record, Heavy Gold, in December 2015 and has played to some of Toronto’s finest venues, including the Horseshoe Tavern, Lee’s Palace, and Adelaide Hall. In 2016, the group opened for the Madrid-based garage rockers, Hinds, on the American leg of their Leave Me Alone world tour, including a sold-out show at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom. While cultivating the creation of Fried Records, Max’s attention turned from skins
