John Athayde

Alternative / Ambient / Indie

Washington, DC

Billboard

Howdy.

My name is John and I like noise. I play my effects moreso than my instrument. I'm a producer, guitarist, frontman/vocalist, keyboardist, bassist, and laptop jockey. I play bass and sometimes keys and laptop in Honor by August. I front Rotoscope with Courtney Totushek. I play guitar/keys/laptop and sometimes surrogate bass in Juniper Lane. I make electronic music with DJ Kynz in Boboroshi and Kynz. On occasion, I've been known to play/abuse accordian, mandolin, and doublebass.

I run a project studio with Brian "Freddy" Frederick (Juniper Lane bassist) called "Borealis" until we come up with a better name (or simply are too lazy to change it). We also have a project together that we're just starting and we produce and perform with Jenn Morson under the moniker of "The Aurora Lovely".

I started working on a solo record this summer and have about 5 songs written so far. I hope to finish it before the winter. It will pop the proverbial cherry of Borealis studios and we'll see how it turns out.

I'm currently writing, recording, performing or doing God knows what with the following other bands as well: Phil Rossi and the Bad Habit, Narcissus (Phil's electronica effort), Wes Charlton, The VGC, Leyla Akdogan, and anyone else that will let me plug in.

I run the open mic with Josh Howe at Dr. Dremo's almost every Thursday night. Josh has been doing most of the running of late, but you can usually find me there with various friends, enemies, and compadres in crime.

Enjoy!