New York City-based rock band Upright Man is Aidan Dolan (guitar/vocals), Nick Katz (bass/vocals) and Max Yassky (drums/percussion/background vocals). The group met while studying classical music composition at New York University where they played together on various projects ranging from classical ensembles to rock bands. Their strong writing chemistry spurred the formation of Upright Man. Combining elements of alternative, psychedelic, roots rock and classic rock with complex harmonies and time signatures, the band seamlessly intertwines influences like Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Crowded House, Little Feat, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and XTC into a unique sound all their own.

Here's what POPMATTERS had to say: "New York City's Upright Man's self-described hi-fi rock digs deep into the crevices between classic rock, progressive rock, and grunge. 'Hifidelic' takes listeners on a wild ride...Cracking drums, gut-warming bass and lyrics that capture the short walk between cynicism and optimism, "Hifidelic" imagines a more sedate but no less irate iteration of the Jam, the alley walk between the adolescent hijinks of the Replacements, and the refined pop of latter-day Soul Asylum. The single is a cracking good state of the union that reveals multiple layers upon repeated listens."

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past:
25.11.01 - Bootlegktv at Mood Ring, Brooklyn
25.11.01 - Alice Longyu Gao Halloween Party at Market Hotel
25.10.22 - The Ainsworth Brooklyn [DJ]
25.09.16 - Giami NY Showroom at Komune [DJ]
25.08.19 - CLUB UWU at Phantom Bar, Berlin
25.08.17 - scattered dreams :333 at kwia [DJ]
25.08.16 - AN(8)X Festival 2025: Phantom Parade

24.11.17 - Notebook at KW Studios, Vancouver

☆ZAH ASIA TOUR SUMMER 2024☆
24.09.20 - HVEN, Nakameguro, Tokyo
24.09.18 - forestlimit, Hatagaya, Tokyo
24.09.14 - 道 dao, Taichung, Taiwan
24.09.07 - Möth Agency, Hong Kong
24.09.06 - SYSTEM, Shanghai
24.08.10 - club asia, Shibuya, Tokyo
24.08.02 - 乆JOIN, Taipei
24.07.19 - The Shrine of Satisfaction, La Union [DJ]
24.07.11 - Unearth at Apotheka, Poblacion, Makati
24.07.10 - BLISS at Hoesik Bar & Lounge, Makati
24.07.06 - Gravity Art Space, Quezon City, MNL [DJ]

24.06.06 - 123 bowery, New York
24.04.11 - Baby's All Right, Brooklyn
24.04.02 - Madame Lou's, Seattle
24.01.27 - SPACE, Shinjuku, Tokyo
24.01.20 - bacon, Okubo, Tokyo [DJ]

23.10.31 - XCAKES x BODY JOURNEY Halloween Forest Rave, Queens [Live+DJ]
23.10.21 - Bubble_T at Elsewhere, Brooklyn
23.07.08 - Lower Grand Radio, Oakland [Live+DJ]
23.07.07 - Oakland.Secret, Oakland
23.05.05 - AZN GLO at Neumos, Seattle
23.04.13 - Barboza, Seattle
23.04.09 - Discipline at SPACE, Shinjuku, Tokyo
23.04.01 - Oeshixa at bacon, Okubo, Tokyo
23.03.26 - Abandoned building in Kabukicho, hosted by Kiku Mizuhara
23.03.25 - SPREAD, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
23.03.20 - Bossa Nova Civic Club, Brooklyn [DJ]
23.02.04 - Alphaville, Brooklyn
23.01.17 - Operator Radio, Rotterdam [DJ]

22.12.04 - Bubble at Garage Noord [DJ]
22.11.19 - Club HD at Parallel, Amsterdam [DJ]
22.11.16 - Scorpio Season at Acud Club Berlin [DJ]
22.11.01 - Madame Lou's, Seattle
22.09.30 - Drill x Vantek, Vancouver [DJ]
22.09.10 - Normie at Village Studios, Vancouver
22.08.19 - Dundee Lodge Campout, Oregon
22.08.14 - Party Office, Documenta Fifteen [DJ]
22.08.13 - Party Office, Documenta Fifteen, Kassel
22.07.29 - Fever Dream at Poing, Rotterdam, NL
22.06.12 - Poing, Rotterdam, NL
22.06.03 - Kwia, Berlin
22.04.28 - Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn
22.04.17 - Barboza, Seattle
22.03.25 - Kwia, Berlin
22.03.19 - Trauma Bar Und Kino, Berlin
22.03.17 - Sameheads, Berlin
22.02.11 - Riposte at Electrowerkz, London
22.02.04 - The Yard, London

21.12.04 - The Yard, London

20.04.25 - New Ho Queen x Club Q [Virtual]
20.04.03 - NTS Radio, London [Guest Mix]
20.02.21 - Dublab Radio, Los Angeles [Lilith]
20.01.16 - Cafe Racer, Seattle
20.01.11 - Watershed, Portland

19.12.28 - Gold Diggers, Los Angeles
19.11.15 - Dublab Radio, Los Angeles
19.10.30 - University of California, Santa Barbara
19.10.18 - Non Plus Ultra, Los Angeles
19.10.16 - Trans-Pecos, Ridgewood, NYC
19.10.11 - Le Nocturne, Chicago
19.09.20 - Circus, Tokyo, Japan
19.08.30 - Indian Summer, Seattle
19.07.26 - H0L0, Ridgewood, NYC
19.07.19 - Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan
19.07.05 - Coaxial, Los Angeles
19.07.02 - Elbo Room Jack London, Oakland
19.06.09 - Human Resources, Los Angeles
19.06.06 - Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn
19.06.01 - The Glove, Brooklyn
19.05.28 - Elsewhere, Brooklyn
19.05.11 - Belltown Yacht Club, Seattle
19.04.20 - Love City Love, Seattle
19.03.25 - Old School Pizza, Olympia
19.02.21 - H0L0, Ridgewood, NYC
19.02.01 - MoMA PS1, Queens, NYC 
19.01.05 - Love City Love, Seattle

composer / producer / audio wizard

email: oliver.e.dowie@gmail.com

Justin Randel is Reaches, an artist exploring the potentialities and possibilities for twisting the electronic communalism of dance music through his own framework of introspective, soul-searching lyricism and songcraft.  His second record, Wherever the Internet Goes, Sorrow Follows, out _____ continues his investigation of the voice and vision of the project, following up on his record I Am Alive and Well.

Randel’s a born road dog, traveling and performing under both his Reaches project and other various monikers over the past decade, spanning three continents and 19 countries in the last few years.  He’s the kind of performer who comes off tour talking about his next jaunt, and those years traveling have left him with an impressively deep catalog of stories, names and places from which his work emerges. Trained in music composition, Randel was equally informed by years trawling through online music boards, blogs and P2P networks, culling together a taste that spans global pop, electronic composition and sonic experimentation in equal measure, and which finds its natural expression in his releases.  

This expansive sense of the disparate threads and thoughts of the global underground find a cohesive point of exchange in Randel’s work, as if his songs sought to pull together the disparate communities, the faces and zones that he has lived and worked in over the years into a more communal space. Wherever the Internet Goes, Sorrow Follows sits at a precise juncture of psych-tinged song craft and dancefloor-oriented productions that speak to his time in the midwest hotbed of Chicago.  Switching between, lurching, deconcstructed approaches on tracks like “Two Particle Beams Collided” and more anthemic, direct work on pieces like “GCI.”

The record has a slack, slithering production style, mixing dense sonics with a direct, wide-eyed delivery that relies on Randel’s deep crooning vocals.  The work immediately recalls the vocal stylings and lyrical content of classic New Romantics records, but in the artist’s long relationship and close friendships within the Midwestern dance music communities equally see him exploring more mesmerizing, meditative textures and spaces.   

It’s a testament to his ability as a songwriter that these pieces could almost find a home in any of the environments described above, whether a basement rave in Eastern Europe, a loft party in Brooklyn, or anywhere else, a series of tracks sent out like love letters to the worlds he’s passed through and shared.  As a result, the record itself feels full of the tragedies and triumphs of the world around him, friends lost and found, and the shared spirit of creativity, of building a world for themselves, that unifies them.

LOVE IS ART

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Andrew Fox & co 
HOUSE OF FEELINGS | thesongsays | Other People

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