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Monsoon is a three-piece indie rock band from Athens, Georgia who weave together unorthodox styles to create music that dips between the conscious and subconscious. Their upcoming album"Ghost Party" is set to release early 2022. 

It wasn’t long after the release of Monsoon's debut album “Ride A’Rolla,” that the band garnered shocking and unexpected success. A couple months after the initial release, Chandler was contacted by Toyota to use their title track on a commercial for the new 2016 Toyota Corolla. From there, the commercial landed a spot in the 2016 Super Bowl right after the half time performance. “I had no idea something of that magnitude would happen at such an early part in our story. That kind of thing just doesn’t happen. We were very lucky.” Post Super Bowl, both members of Monsoon [Sienna Chandler and Joey Kegel] have been lying low, quietly fine tuning a project they've teased as "Ghost Party." Chandler mentions, "Our upcoming album is a complete departure from the fast paced, youthful punk riffs Ride A’Rolla so effortlessly brought to the table. It didn’t happen intentionally, but as you grow so does your comprehension and ability to salt and pepper your music. Massive harmony sections swarm most of the album. By the end of it you sort of feel baptized. Not to mention, every single sound on this album is either Joey or I. Every instrument, and voice was brought into creation by us birthing the shape of its sound.”

Innocent Alex was formed when Evan Jiroudek decided to take on a solo recording project back in 2016. The five song EP birthed the first original collaboration brothers Evan and Lake Jiroudek had worked on since going their separate ways in college. One summer the brothers reunited in their hometown of Cannon Beach, Oregon to begin recording the album, but time got away and Lake had to go back to college in New York City. While Evan did the bulk of the recording in Cannon Beach and Highland Park, California, where he lived, Lake layered all the lead guitar parts on top and sent them back to Evan on the other side of the country. By the time the self-titled EP was released in 2017, Lake had graduated college and moved out to LA to begin working and performing with his brother, Evan. The brothers spent years in LA together playing at various venues as Innocent Alex, playing as sidemen to many up and coming songwriters, and teaching at various music schools during the day time. Throughout this span of time, Evan had produced and engineered albums for his peers, himself and even his little brother. With the brothers both writing and singing their own material, they went back into the studio as co- leaders, keeping the band name Evan had originally used for his solo project. Evan and Lake spent a year in a make shift studio they built inside a car port that sat below a three story condominium with hundreds of residents, recording their first full length album and earning the hatred of their neighbors. When the brothers finally finished the tracking, Covid-19 struck and the Pandemic influenced a move back to the Oregon Coast. Soon after, Evan mixed the album, Jason NeSmith (Chase Park Transduction) mastered it, and then the brothers sat on it for two years while Evan worked various construction jobs and Lake recorded an album of his own. Evan and Lake are currently working and performing in Astoria, Oregon where they are promoting their new LP "No More Heroes".

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