Check out my video for my song NUMB!

Check out my new video of my song Numb off my album which is coming out next month!  I do believe this is one of my favorite songs that I've written, and I was so happy to have my friends Cindy Chou and Ann Chang playing clarinet and violin on it.  It made the experience extra special :) They were great cheerleaders,  spending all those hours trying to get the song all worked out in those tiny UW practice rooms, and I couldn’t have done it without them! 

My Long lost Scarlett EP is coming out next month!

I can't believe it's actually HAPPENING!  On Feb. 25th 2014 I'm finally releasing my long lost Scarlett EP (which has been siting collecting dust on a hard drive for 5 years now literally)!

This is a video about making the album and why it took me so long to release it. (I have no idea why the thumb nail pic is so weird but the video is better than the pic I promise!)

Thank you to my friends Cindy Chou, Ann Chang, Lauren Roth and Jacques Willis for playing on my EP back in the good old rainy Seattle days.

Most importantly, this album is dedicated to my Grandma Dorris who first inspired me to become a musician. RIP Grandma I love you.

- j.a.

The dream of the 90's is ALIVE in Portland!

It's been a LONG vacation from blogging but now that I am official back in my native PNW habitat I'm back to blogging and writing about all the awesome music and art I discover along the way!  I'm gonna try and be better about all this now! 

Let me tell you;  Portland ain't LA.  I went to a show the other day and the whole piece was a guy tuning his guitar for 30 minutes...yep :)  Performance art rules in PDX!

 So far my favorite places are Secret Society http://www.secretsociety.net/ and the Wonder Ball Room http://www.wonderballroom.com/  They are both a few blocks away, and I'm going to be checking them out regularly and sharing all the awesome music I hear!  In the meantime I'll see you at Bingo night on Alberta! (Yes, BINGO is huge in PDX.)