Eric Warner began his career in the late 1990s as a teenage concert promoter, gaining skills in concert promotion, music marketing, festival management, music management, and brand development. He has lectured across North America and recently started a book publishing company.
He founded We Are Busy Bodies, a globally minded, Toronto-based record label and music company, in 2005. We Are Busy Bodies and its subsidiaries have issued over 280 releases and also operate Having Fun Records, Busy Buddies, and Record Record Label. Warner also manages several artists and operates The Cylinder Project, a not-for-profit organization focused on exploring and preserving at-risk languages. Label releases have received acclaim from various media outlets including the BBC, NPR, CBC, the New York Times, The Wire, Bandcamp, and others. Many of its represented artists have been nominated for Juno, ECMA and WCMA awards.