I have enjoyed music since I was in my single digits, was in a band on tooth & nail records called Ninety Pound Wuss, also in a band called Raft of Dead Monkeys. Each of those bands released a few albums over the 3 or four years we played together. I currently have a band called Suffering & the Hideous Thieves, but we have not released anything since 2005. We are planning on making some music together again later in 2013. I am sure we will post some songs up here as the come together. I also have played in many bands at Mars Hill Church in Seattle where I am currently attending and serving. The one I was in the longest was called Team Strike Force.

Known for his work fronting the enigmatic rock band Pedro the Lion, David Bazan’s emotionally charged narratives, eye for telling detail, and mournful voice have more in common with J.D. Salinger’s “Nine Stories” or Flannery O’Connor’s “Wise Blood” than with the usual lyrical slant of popular music. Bazan is a gifted storyteller, weaving parables of spiritual conflict, suburban ennui, and personal surrender into magnetic, well-crafted songs.

His debut solo full-length album, Curse Your Branches (out now on Barsuk), is a masterwork by a modern American poet at the height of his powers. Paste Magazine called him one of the “100 Best Living Songwriters”. This record is the deepest and most explicit exploration of his struggles with faith and a meditation on all things passed between the generations.

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