Music
Bands:
Josh sings, plays guitar and banjo, writes, and performs live with The Harvey Girls, a band transplanted to Portland in late 2006 when core members Melissa Rodenbeek and Hiram Lucke moved west from Lawrence, Kansas. Much of the Girls’ discography is available for download and purchase at the band’s website; see also their MySpace page. The band is currently recording a new album in the basement studio of soon-to-depart keyboardist/bassist/mensch Adam Bartell of Giant Mirrors and Thirty Two Ways.
Josh also occasionally records and plays out with guitarist and song-writer Brian Rozendal, along with Terry Drysdale, drummer for Royal Houser.
In late 2006 and early 2007, Josh (on keyboards), Brian, Terry, and bassist Nate Robinson played together in the band The Man So Cool. They recorded a four track demo and promptly split up.
From 2003 to 2005, Josh (on lead guitar and vocals) and Brian played with Edgar Paras (drums) and Josh’s old schoolmate Wilder Schmaltz (bass) in a band whose final official name was Heat Lorraine. Previous names included (in reverse chronological order): The Havzies, Science, bella is a cat, Indochine, and Sidecar. They split up less promptly.
Recordings:
In February, 2007, Josh wrote and recorded Manifests, a 33-minute, ten song album as part of the RPM Album-in-a-month challenge. He thinks it’s pretty good.
He has posted several dozen recordings to Metafilter Music since that site’s inception in June of 2006.
From February to August of 2006, he wrote and recorded approximately 70 songs for his (since-abandoned) singing-newspaper project, The Aural Times.
He is still developing the front-end presentation for a complete collection of his home and live recordings back to 1997; mp3s of his recordings can be found in this directory.