Harness Flux is John Masters, who was born of the DC indie pop/rock scene in the 90's when labels like Teenbeat and Simple Machines put to wax some of the town's finest groups.  From those influences John formerly fronted the band Metropolitan, who dabbled with the 00's garage rock boom with Pavement tendencies and Sonic Youth propensities. His solo project Harness Flux is a cultivation of many years worth of indie rock /psychedelia/noise rock/no wave/lo-fi influences still ringing through John’s ears.

John has also appeared in such acts as Stamen and Pistils, The Cheniers, America Hearts and Jowe Head & the Fleeting Glimpses. Over the years John has shared stages with Spider Bags, Public Service Broadcasting, The Dismemberment Plan, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bardo Pond, Tristeza, Gogogo Airheart, Wolf Colonel, The Bravery, The Rosebuds, The Shout Out Louds, Bis and many more.

The Caribbean is an American experimental pop group from Washington, D.C., primarily composed of Michael Kentoff, Matthew Byars and Dave Jones. The band has been critically acclaimed for its deconstructionist approach to pop music, its wry, literary lyrics, and its eclectic sound, which incorporates elements of American pop, indie rock and experimental rock, cool jazz, folk music, lounge music, and even Brazilian music.

The band's most recent album, Discontinued Perfume, received high praise from Pitchfork Media, with the reviewer stating: "It’s as though the band had all the pieces for comfortable indie pop in its possession but no interest in putting them into a standard order. This is of course what makes them interesting. They are bound to confound your expectations several times on any given album, and if you’re into that, they’re good enough at putting these weird songs together that they can pull you in with surprising ease." [15]
In addition, the record received a 9/10 from PopMatters, wherein the review stated, "They walk out of step with prevailing pop-culture trends and fashions. Yet they’re making some of the most interesting and multi-faceted music that exists right now. Operating on the fringes, they’re nonetheless capturing essential dilemmas of our time, and doing so through the musical equivalents of quandaries, rumors, and whispers. To the band, the listener, the songs’ characters, and the instruments themselves, Discontinued Perfume is an exciting exercise in unlocking the puzzle that is the world around us."[16] Additionally, PopMatters named Discontinued Perfume the "Best Indie-Pop Record of 2011" in their year-end "Best Of" list.[17] "Mr. Let's Find Out" from the record was named to Washington, DC City Paper writer Ryan Little's "Ten Best Local Tracks of 2011,"[18] the title track from the record was named to DC City Paper Arts Editor Jonathan Fischer's "Ten Best Local Tracks of 2011," [19] the Washington Post hailed the record as a "subtle masterpiece," [20] and the Denver Post's online site Reverb listed the record as one of their Top 10 Albums of 2011, as well.[21]
Over the past few years, The Caribbean has garnered further positive press in The Washington Post, The Washington City Paper, Magnet,[22] Tiny Mix Tapes,[23] Uncut (UK), The Denver Post,[24] Flak,[25] Stylus, Harp Magazine, and Signal to Noise.

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