CANCELED: Husbands, BCKHND

Husbands plays landlocked beach pop that sidequests Kratrock, garage rock, and tropicalia. OKC-based songwriters Danny Davis and Wil Norton got their start directing a Godzilla musical at their college and then began sharing snippets of lofi grunge pop ideas that came together in their first album, “Golden Year.” This album caught local label Clerestory AV’s attention, who assisted Husbands in releasing its first vinyl LP, “After the Gold Rush Party,” on an imprint label, Cowboy 2.0 Records. “After the Gold Rush Party” was featured on NPR’s Heavy Rotation and Spotify’s New Music Friday, Fresh Finds, and Feel-Good Indie Rock playlists. 

 

Pre COVID, Husbands was slated to play bills at SXSW, Treefort Music Fest, and Norman Music Festival, and a New York City release show at Baby’s All Right. Not to be deterred, Danny and Wil got back to songwriting and put together their third LP, “Full-on Monet,” out late Fall 2021. Their single “Must be a Cop,” released June 6, 2021, has been featured on Spotify’s All New Indie, Today’s Indie Rock, and Grade A playlists (among other editorial playlists), and has received coverage from prominent bloggers including David Dean Burkhart, BIRP!, and Indie Shuffle

Jacob Bright and Conner Hastings met in 2012 at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA
for a “Man Man” show. Two of Conners childhood friends had travelled them both to the city to
see a circus like band perform. The two immediately hit it off and expressed their desire to start
a band.
For the next 9 months they exchanged messages concerning music and life as they both
were simultaneously deciding to drop out of their respective colleges and pursue a career in
music. Much to their families chagrin, they went through with the decision to start the journey
into the music industry.
Conner flew Jacob to Charleston, SC and Jacob shipped his small drum kit behind him.
They approached an art studio in downtown Charleston about using the classroom as a
rehearsal space and proceeded to form a band, rehearsing between the hours of midnight and 4
am for the next 6 months. Hub Cap Annie was born.
The next year in Charleston, HCA went from playing small bars and coffee shops such
as King Dusko and Boones on the peninsula to opening slots at the prestigious Music Farm,
opening for the band Stop Light Observations, who had become good friends in the Charleston
music scene.
Their final show before moving to Nashville, HCA headlined a local music festival at the
Music Farm to near 400 people and decided to make the jump to real ambition within the
industry.
Upon arriving in Nashville they added many different elements to the band and went
through multiple rebrandings. HCA became The GGs, and then concurrently, The Black Mags.
Over the next couple years in Nashville, The Black Mags saw relative success within the
industry. Playing multiple large local shows and doing several small tours throughout the
majority of the east coast. Tensions with the band, now of four members, ultimately caused
Jacob and Conner to end the band and talks with major labels in order to take a break and
reassess their lives in and out of music. The two year break rejuvenated them enough to feel
ready to give another shot at the world of music. BCKHND was born.
Starting back into their homeworld of a two piece band, the two felt immediately true to
their art form once more. They began as any small band does, piecing things together,
experimenting, and playing any show they could sneak into. After another year of exciting
developments and potential opportunity in 2020, a tornado hit the venue The Basement East,
they both worked in, as well as their home and rehearsal space in Donelson. Bright was at the
venue at the time of the tornado and helped to save the lives of multiple employees and people
on the street, dragging them into the basement of the venue and huddling in the dark waiting for
the tornado to end. Hastings had been cut from working the bar that evening and awoke to the
chaos of the tornado as Bright called him and told him their entire lives had just been ripped
from the ground, but that they were both still alive.
Two weeks later, COVID lockdowns began. The two were locked into a house, rife with
trauma and PTSD, and uninspired to perhaps ever make music again.
Two years later, when shows began to happen again, they decided that they would give
it one last shot and see if the fire still burned in their hearts. BCKHND began playing local
shows and festivals again in Nashville.

After a year they had built themselves to play such venues as Brooklyn Bowl, the
Basement, and local festivals. They are currently shopping their debut EP to major labels in
hopes of showing the dark beautiful animal that is their art to the world in its entirety.

Description:
Two piece Alt rock band from Nashville, TN. Dark crescendo and pop punk piano guitar
drums and vocals. Band has received consistent comparisons to bands such as Radiohead,
Spoon, Fugazi, etc