Maybe a year or so after moving to Massachusetts I began making music with Colin Asquith, a roommate and high school friend of the person I credit for introducing me to anyone I know in New England, Noah Peffer. This would be the first of many musical endeavors with Colin. We banged out song ideas, [...]
The Broadcast was the name initially given to the project that grew out of The Nuclear Family started by Justin Roelofs, Josh Berwanger and myself. It was decided early on that we needed a dedicated keyboard player, preferably a foxy girl with a great voice, and I knew just the one. Introductions were made and [...]
I was asked to join the Nuclear Family shortly after my departure from The Breakups. My good friend Thomas Becker had been playing with Justin Roelofs and Tyler French for about a year and they had just released a full-length CD, Got Ripped Off, on Manic, a local label that also put out records for [...]
This was the first legit band I was in. The KC music scene in the mid-’90s was split between punk rock (The Breakups, Sex Offenders, 110 Volts) and, for lack of a better term, art rock (Boys Life, Secular Theme, Giants Chair). Those who know me now are frequently surprised to learn that despite my [...]