ARTISTS WE ARE INSPIRED BY:
Ryan Adams
Nick Drake
Jeff Buckley
Gram Parsons
The Velvet Underground
Fleetwood Mac
Mates of State
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Nico
Joanna Newsom
Bob Dylan
Townes Van Zandt
Woody Guthrie
Daniel Johnston
Joni Mitchell
Television
My Morning Jacket
Joy Division
Olivia Tremor Control
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Microphones/Mount Eerie
Scott Walker
Swedish pop bands
The Stone Roses
Fiery Furnaces
Elliott Smith
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
Beck
Brian Eno
The Talking Heads
Hall and Oates
Destroyer
Yo La Tengo
Smog
The Books
Fever and the Fallin' Rain's members have been writing together since the summer of 2007, but have experienced many transitions throughout those years. Seattle-born Art Musician Steve Styles and Jessica Fever from North Carolina started the band with alt-country aspirations, soon transforming into experimental rock and finally finding a niche with Fever’s electronic pop-inspired sounds.
The duo is filled with diverse musical backgrounds and inspirations, and Fever was born under this array. Styles managed a growing band for 4 years, working with members of Sarathen records, before forming his own. Ryan Adams’ legacy has always inspired Styles as a musician, and classics Nick Drake, Gram Parsons, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, and Jeff Buckley also find their way into his writing style. Jessica Fever grew up with years of classical training, and she looks up to Mates of State for their strong hook-laden songs and pop melodies.
"Local quartet Fever and the Fallin' Rain began 18 months ago, surviving several lineup changes and the departure of its original guitarist. After beginning life as The Magnolia Mountain and recording a four-song EP, the band was threatened with legal action by a Cincinnati band with the same name. Shortly thereafter, guitarist Joseph Wharton left the band for a woman. "I wish I could have that money back," says singer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Styles.
In the aftermath, Styles focused on collaborating with keyboardist Helene Fever, taking an Americana sound in a new direction. The band's recently finished a three-song EP that stakes out a dreamy keyboard-driven shimmer owing debts to acts like Richard Swift, Film School and The Velvet Underground. "The basis is a nice melody with lyrics that aren't necessarily going to be the happiest," Styles explains.
They're presently working on a concept album about Kansas City. In true Sufjan Stevens manner, Styles spent a couple of months studying up on the heartland city before writing songs like "The Rails Decline," about its declining fortunes as a rail hub, the pretty "Malts and Walts," about hometown boy Walt Disney, and the eerie epic "You Came, Now Go!" conceiving a conflict between the townspeople and missionary Mormons."—Chris Parker - The Independent
Fever and the Fallin’ Rain's Friend Space (Top 12)
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!
you guys are in our top friends. (unless Natasha changed it and changed it back and I didn't know) but your guys are there....don't be sad, you'll have to play an Em chord and be emo...don't be emo that would make me sad
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