Spring Break
Chicago interns form band after college
WHITNEY KESSLER
Issue date: 2/20/07 Section: Variety
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Most bands are composed of at least four members with a few extra appearances here and there of a brass instrumentalist or a tambourine man. However, a new duo comprised of two singer/songwriters is headed to Athens.
Hailing from Chicago, the members of Fair June, Jarrod Cooper (guitar, back vocals) and Michael Mikosz (guitar, lead vocals), will light up the stage tonight with their jazz, pop and rock sound.
Playing with David Koon and Jim Wolf
When: 10 Tonight
Where: Tasty World
Price: $5
The guys met while interning for Aware Records in Chicago right out of college. They began to write together and created what has evolved into a musical adventure, Cooper said.
"I was living in Nashville, and Mike was in Toledo, Ohio. We took off to Chicago and ended up interning together," Cooper said. "I took a couple of other jobs, but I wasn't happy. It was the ideal life that your parents want for you. I just didn't want it."
Cooper said he studied business management in college assuming he would be on the quiet side of the music industry. He said that he became a guitarist during college for the simple enjoyment of it and that Mikosz was the talent in the group.
"I'm actually self-taught. Mike, on the other hand, is just a phenomenal musician. He has been involved in music all his life, whereas I always saw myself working on the business side of it," said Cooper.
He said the sound is comparable to John Mayer but that there is something specific distinguishable in the band's mix. The two have very different leans when it comes to music, giving the music a balanced effect.
"We both have such different influences. I'm into Sun Kil Moon where he is more into pop, R&B, even rap - we both like the John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughn stuff. That kind of brings us together, and that is the common ground that we come back to when we write."
Hailing from Chicago, the members of Fair June, Jarrod Cooper (guitar, back vocals) and Michael Mikosz (guitar, lead vocals), will light up the stage tonight with their jazz, pop and rock sound.
FAIR JUNE
Playing with David Koon and Jim Wolf
When: 10 Tonight
Where: Tasty World
Price: $5
The guys met while interning for Aware Records in Chicago right out of college. They began to write together and created what has evolved into a musical adventure, Cooper said.
"I was living in Nashville, and Mike was in Toledo, Ohio. We took off to Chicago and ended up interning together," Cooper said. "I took a couple of other jobs, but I wasn't happy. It was the ideal life that your parents want for you. I just didn't want it."
Cooper said he studied business management in college assuming he would be on the quiet side of the music industry. He said that he became a guitarist during college for the simple enjoyment of it and that Mikosz was the talent in the group.
"I'm actually self-taught. Mike, on the other hand, is just a phenomenal musician. He has been involved in music all his life, whereas I always saw myself working on the business side of it," said Cooper.
He said the sound is comparable to John Mayer but that there is something specific distinguishable in the band's mix. The two have very different leans when it comes to music, giving the music a balanced effect.
"We both have such different influences. I'm into Sun Kil Moon where he is more into pop, R&B, even rap - we both like the John Mayer, Stevie Ray Vaughn stuff. That kind of brings us together, and that is the common ground that we come back to when we write."
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