Migrating from Philadelphia to Nashville a year ago, Josh Benus and Matt Kass have expanded on their backgrounds as formally-trained musicians with a sound that’s both unique and powerfully emotional.

After several years of collaborating in a variety of projects, including a soundtrack for the HBO documentary First Comes Love, they solidified their partnership by founding Modern Inventors. Shortly after that, they decided to move to Nashville, where they connected quickly with the city’s vibrant artistic network and — critically important — found the house that functions now as their personal and professional home base.

“Working and living here is great because we can put all of our time into writing and recording,” Josh explains. “We have our hands on every second of these recordings. They are us. And because this house has allowed us to do this, it’s become our signature. 

“For me, the allure of Nashville is, that it’s about the songwriting,” Josh adds. “It’s inspiring living here because everyone’s so passionate about their craft. So in retrospect, this is the probably the best move we could have made.”

Dinner parties featuring Josh’s gourmet creations morph into jam sessions here. Songs take shape on the weathered upright piano in their living room. Other artists drop in, stay awhile, lay down a few tracks and leave their mark on this ever-evolving community. That’s all part of Modern Inventors’ mission, to keep their door open to anyone who might drop by and contribute ideas and inspiration.

But, always, Matt and Josh helm this ship. “Our long-term plan is to have a sound that people know when they hear it,” Matt insists. “We have the ability to curate not only what we do and to make Modern Inventors a great American rock band but also to say, ‘We really like this artist who opened for us. We want him to come to our studio and work with us, just to see what happens.”

I'm a US musician (mainly guitar), and gamer, currently expanding my writing to other genres of music other than Alternative/Hard Rock/Metal. My goal is to work on soundtracks for film and video games. Hope you like what you hear!

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Claire Wadsworth, co-owner of the highly acclaimed Flamingo Heights restaurant, La Copine, found her way to the desert after teaching music and working in a recording studio in Los Angeles. While running the restaurant, Claire has been secretly making records at The Clocktower Recorder with producer, Charlie Stavish. As C’est Claire, she has self-released two full-length albums in a thematic series of three. The Rule of Three: Birth, Life, and Death. First Lessons (released 2018) representing birth, Second Chance (released 2020) signifies life, and Rule of Three (due out Fall 2022) stands for death as an ending or new beginning...

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Formed in the fall of 2010 by schoolmates and long time friends Dave Cope and Demian Mason, LeBon LeBon was, at first, nothing more than an experiment in song writing. Cope and Mason, both founding members of the Philadelphia based Fantasy Square Garden, decided to join forces again to create a "fake band" that would act as a vehicle to promote the holiday single "Megan Fox for Christmas". But the duo's repertoire would grow to include songs of an equally corrupt and catchy nature, drawing influences from such acts as Human League, Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears, Prince and Morris Day and the Time. Aided by the production savvy of Andres Villamil aka Sir Isaac Newton John, LeBon LeBon aims to create a sound both musically satisfying and self consciously humorous, a Spinal Tap for hipsters.

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