The Violet Fire is a band. Sort of. Matthew is the only one in it and all of the songs are written and recorded in a garage studio. The Violet Fire, dubbed MIXTAPE ROCK, is a kaleidoscope of everything from the raw grit of heavy rock, the melodic and rustic charms of folk, the infectious hooks of pop, the heartbreaking sorrow of ballads, and beyond. You'll tap your feet, you'll feel all warm and fuzzy, then you'll get plastered to the wall.

Hey everyone I'm a starving artist. Lend me your ears!!!!

Joe Stacy is a Singer Songwriter from Lexington Kentucky, He is a Veteran of the Global War on Terror serving 6 years and 3 deployments in the US Navy on board the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier.  In 2016, He recorded his debut album, Slight Dark Turn, with Josh Evans at Nubs Dubs Studios.  Though the album is new, most of the songs were written in the mid 90's to the early 2000's.  Many songs contain elements of the world's climate during these times.  Joe revised most of the songs while recording them to try to add maturity and experience to them.  "I try to make sure that the pain and passion is there, but I never want to leave feeling of hopelessness.  I try to make sure that there is positivity and hope at the end because that's how we make it through the dark times."  (Joe on Slight Dark Turn) "I think we were all pretty depressed back then (the 90's).  We watched our heroes die of drugs or suicide, It wasn't fully okay for people to be what they were born to be, a lot of suppressing feelings and forced conformance going on back then.  Some people have taken it too far in the other direction and are actively seeking something to find offensive, but all in all these are more positive times, granted we've seen war, we've seen struggle, we've seen real evil, and we've seen fear, but we've seen people overcome that in defiance.  Lately it seems there has been an intense backslide to that progress.  I tried to capture some of these things beyond the personal and emotional stuff on the album.  I felt the need to represent my generation, and some of the frustrations we see today"  

I created this profile to record impromptu jams with my iPhone. The recording quality is due to the size of my pocket studio.


THE CAMPERS: freewheeling, amped piano rock duo of Nick Coleman (piano, bass synth, vocals) and Ron Smith (drums) from "Parts Unknown", Kentucky.  Punk rock Elton John. Shitnado.

Music that will tickle the darkest depth of your soul.

The Sundown Service is a Lexington, KY based group that has forged an original sound of psychedelia-infused blues based rock. 

Sundown Service is what happens when you put instruments in the hands of musicians who grew up pillaging their parents vinyl collections to listen to The Allman Brothers, CSNY, Bob Dylan, and countless others....

JOVONTAES lexington KY band--reid small/ mark murray/ josh blaine NEW TAPE https://jovontaes.bandcamp.com/album/new-horizones-pt-1  thejovontaes@gmail.com

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