Forget the current harsh cold outside and think back to the summer of 2005. If you were in Canada, chances are you couldn't escape the warm, summery breeze of Bedouin Soundclash's single "When the Night Feels My Song" being played on the radio. It was, after all, the second most played song on Canadian airwaves that year.

Now, the rock/reggae trio is back to warm our souls with three concerts tonight and tomorrow at the Starlite Room.

Bedouin Soundclash may earn comparisons to other rock bands who have utilized reggae beats in their music (like The Police and The Clash), but don't call them a white reggae band - at least not within earshot of frontman Jay Malinowski.

"We're two-thirds white and we're not a reggae band," Malinowski says about the label the media has bestowed upon himself, bassist Eon Sinclair and drummer Pat Pengelly.

If Malinowski sounds a little more exasperated than his usual sun-shiny vocals on the band's radio hits would lead you to believe, blame it on the touring.

"It's our first real tour in two years in Canada," Malinowski says in a rough, scratchy voice during a stop in Windsor, Ont. "We did something like 320 shows last year. It's really tiring. It's worth it though, it keeps us in touch with our fans and keeps our career alive because singles come and go, but if you tour a lot then you have something to stand on."

Bedouin Soundclash is on firm footing these days, with its current album Street Gospels gaining a fair amount of radio airplay in Canada, excluding the band from one-hit-wonder status.

"We're really proud of this record," Malinowski says of Street Gospels, the band's third release. "The emphasis on this record was less on the rhythm and beat and more on the songwriting and lyrics. We wanted to make a really accessible record and maybe some people are turned off by that and some people may have wanted us to be a bit more traditional reggae and ska, but we wanted to do something that was a little more challenging for us."

Street Gospels is still awash in the world-tinged pop/rock songs that made 2004's Sounding a Mosaic such a hit, but it definitely carries a fresh Paul Simon-vibe that drenches some of the songs in an addictive ear-candy coating.

"The success we had come from "When the Night Feels My Song" spoke for itself. It was something real, it wasn't on the radio because it sounded like a formated for radio rock song. We tried to recreate something that wasn't part of a format and wasn't disingenuous," says Malinowski.

Ever the purveyor of the truth, Malinowski says while the band is happy for the success it has achieved, he understands the turmoil the music industry is currently in.

"One thing that is happening right now is that everyone is losing their jobs," Malinowski says about the business. "It's starting to affect the artists and you can see it as everyone's out touring because no one is making money. You need those people at the record labels to be in the office and developing careers. Everyone is very excited at what Radiohead did (releasing their album online as a choose your own price venture), but what Radiohead had was the advantage of 10 to 15 people in offices around the world working on their career, spending millions of dollars and hours and hours of their time developing those careers."

Despite the industry's ultimate outcome, Bedouin Soundclash has numerous projects on the horizon, including a Bedouin/Bad Brains mashup currently being worked on by Brains' bassist and Bedouin producer Darryl Jenifer, as well as a remix record.