Tony Jay
Tony Jay is the musical project of Michael Ramos, the former member of (April Magazine, Cindy and many others). Tony Jay began recording in 2006, added a live band in 2017, and has released many digital EPs, several cassettes, and two records.
The music of Tony Jay is characterized by subtle observation and wry wit. The lyrics embody a restlessness coupled with Tony Jay's signature hopeful resignation. Here are the daily ins and outs of heartache, isolation, and yearning. But here too is attention, a will to go on even amidst surrender. Ideal company for those days when you're not sure you'll ever make it out the door.
Thomas Dollbaum
Thomas Dollbaum is a musician and songwriter from Tampa, Florida. In 2015, Dollbaum began attending University of New Orleans for his masters in poetry—while in the city, he began writing the songs that eventually became Wellswood, his debut album. Since its release in 2022 by Fat Possum subsidiary Big Legal Mess (AllMusic said he “paints the bleakest pictures with a knowing grin, delivering lyrics of rough-living characters and their grim stories as gorgeous, softly glowing Americana”), Dollbaum has toured heavily, sharing stages with folks like Damien Jurardo, Dougie Poole, and Superwolves.
Paul Arámbula
Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Paul Arámbula spent his adolescence playing in and around the Southwest DIY scene. At the age of twenty, Arámbula moved to Berlin, where he started playing scratchy, improvised guitar sets under his own name. A few years later, having exhausted the possibilities of a dry acoustic guitar with all its strings tuned to E, he turned to layered keyboard soundscapes and ballads, which he continues to write and play in his new home base of New York. Still’s Keep is his fourth album, following Towantowanto (Musikií, 2021), The Grass Got In (self-released, 2020), and A Bit of Both (self-released, 2017). Beyond his solo work, Arámbula has also played in O de V, with Howard, Mandeville, and Recinos; the Chandails, with García, Julio Flores, and Noé García de Loera; and Vegetable, with Melissa Marriott and Anno. —Blank Forms
11111angels
11111angels (Eleven Thousand One Hundred and Eleven Angels) is the songwriting output of Desi Valdez. Starting in 2023 in the Pacific Northwest region and currently San Francisco-based, the songs are often written in a studio apartment on the fourth floor in the Richmond District, then recorded there on 4track or in a studio in his hometown in Anacortes, Washington. The set performance at the 4 Star Theater for August 8th, Two Thousand and Twenty-five will be played as a trio. “The Angels Band”
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