The Jack Maybe Project

Americana

Jack Maybe was forged in the fires of the American sound. The sirens of Blues, Jazz, Folk, and Bluegrass grew nearby and he was able to learn their tunes. Through the centuries, he found different beasts who were his kin, and together they began to sing the songs of the Old Monsters who roamed the earth before they. The monsters change form and ferocity, but the songs remain the same.

Maurice and The Stiff Sisters

With their own blend of pure pop for now people, Maurice and the Stiff Sisters is made from only the finest local ingredients.  

Inspired by troubadours such as Nick Lowe, Robyn Hitchcock and Jonathan Richman along with horn-powered soul and rock 'n roll, Maurice and the Stiff Sisters push the boundaries in pursuit of fine songcraft. Filtered through the rose-tinted glasses of psychedelia and power-pop, the music weaves daring horn lines and serpentine guitar riffs through Merseybeat rockers and cheeky sambas. It's an undeniably upbeat, positively danceable affair.

The band's origins can be found in Chico, CA with frontman/songwriter Maurice Spencer and his lust for snapping audiences out of their navel-gazing slumber. His background in theater and music journalism was the spring-loaded platform that propelled him from curating song compilations and theatrical composition to an impresario fronting a bonafide live experience.

There's something rare in the grand cacophony of today's musical class: bands that provided a live experience. Not just a performance, not tuning for two minutes between songs, not offering excuses about why something sounded better in rehearsal the night before kind of affair, but a real experience. Something that people talk about afterwards; a group that melts faces, that puts on a show, and that never forgets the whole purpose is to entertain so that for one short hour people could forget about their long, boring, meaningless hours working at the vape store, the karaoke bar, or the Tatertot Taco cart (which is amazing, everyone should go there...) and have an honest to goodness thing happen.

Every band needs a story. The Maurice and the Stiff Sisters story is that they put on a ripping live show. Sometimes people need to be told it's okay to fucking dance.

From their headquarters in Portland, Oregon, to their rural compound in picturesque Hockinson, Washington, Maurice and the Stiff Sisters add accelerants to the fire, smoke life to its filter and dance through the ashes. 

Personnel:
Maurice Spencer - vocals/guitar
Michael Doherty - bass guitar
Dave Shur - drums
Aaron Mattison - tenor saxophone
Bryant Byers - trombone

Pedigree:
Future Historians, Ezra Bell, PWRHAUS, The Yule Logs, Salem Symphony Orchestra

Bitches of the Sun

Bitches of the Sun is Portland based collective fronted by artist/musician Joshua Davis. The group describes their sound as Delta Sex Pop delivering a body shaking groove with head scratching arrangements. The current member/instrumentation for the project include:

Joshua Davis - vocals/guitar/saxophone
Johnny Holliday - upright bass/baritone guitar/slide guitar/harmonica
Nick Wright - six string electric bass
Lucas James - drums/guitar/vocals

Joshua arrived to Portland, Oregon in 2014 and was immediately drawn to the Pacific Northwest. As a working jazz artist from Chicago, he fell in love with the contrast and natural beauty of his new surrounding environment. Over the last few years he has collaborated with various artists in the local jazz & blues scene, that have become the foundation for this collective.

The goal of Bitches of the Sun is to create an ever-expanding collective of creatives throughout the Northwest in all mediums.