The anti-John Mayer. The anti-Nickelback. The anti-safe.
[rock] David Bowie channeling the ghosts of James Brown and John Lennon.
[acoustic] Beck and Dylan debating Thomas Paine and the nonexistence of love on the eve of the apocalypse.
[metal] Acid Bath covering Nine Inch Nails with Merzbow opening.
"Locke seamlessly alternates between moments of eerie melodic beauty and slow, almost crushing elegance with sections of hard-rocking screamfests containing all the raw emotion of a struggle to the death." --Goddess Ra, Euphony Zine, Luling, LA
"Listening to Locke is like switching radio stations constantly, where variety is key." --Jason Montalbano, Wizerk Dot Com, New Orleans, LA
"Locke’s pointed, allusion-filled lyrics accompany guitar work that is sometimes soothing and sometimes jarring, like a healthy shot of espresso." --Renee Allemand, The Lion's Roar, Hammond, LA
BIO
Somewhere in the Outer 12th Ward of New Orleans, an amateur laboratory still stands where an experiment on matter transmittance went either horribly wrong or horribly right, depending on your sensibilities.
It was just another rundown forgettable building to see its exterior, so on a dark and stormy night it was nothing special for three musicians to end up sheltering themselves underneath the sparse awning until the rain died down a bit. They passed the time as most musicians do, by talking about themselves. It turned out all of them were fresh from shows at the Neutral Ground coffeehouse, Checkpoint Charlie's rock laundromat, and Zeppelin's metal bar respectively.
Suddenly, like something from a bad story, a surge of lightning struck the building just as a man inside was activating the prototype matter transmitter. Forks of green energy erupted from the front door, engulfing the trio outside. When the chaos subsided, the three musicians had been fused into one figure, the Sonic Chimera, Jak Locke.
REAL BIO
Jak Locke is a cross-genre singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist entertainer from New Orleans, LA. An unconventional solo artist, he performs and records with three separate acts under his own name (rock, acoustic and metal).
Locke has become known for his intelligent lyrics, explosive stage presence and an unapologetically original style that eludes easy classification. An astoundingly prolific songwriter and one of the hardest working performers in the region, Locke's been described as "three intense acts' worth of output somehow masquerading as one single person".
Forget everything you've grown to expect from a solo act or a band for that matter; Jak Locke is completely different.
Extended demo streams of Locke's rock, acoustic and metal acts can be found in the Top Friends section below.
CITIES JAK'S PERFORMED IN:
LA: Baton Rouge, Bayou Vista, Covington, Galliano, Gretna, Hammond, Houma, Labadieville, Lafayette, Lockport, Metairie, Natchitoches, New Iberia, New Orleans, Slidell, Shreveport, Terrytown, Thibodaux, Westwego -- MS: Gautier, Ocean Springs, Pascagoula -- AL: Birmingham, Mobile, Tuscaloosa -- GA: Monroe -- TX: Austin, Houston, Mission, San Antonio -- OK: Norman, Tulsa -- MO: Kansas City, Warrensburg -- IA: Des Moines -- TN: Memphis -- AR: Texarkana
REPEATER
I'm misery with company with nothing to say, another brakeman on the rail so that the devil can prey. Screaming at the streetlights and I'm bound to be heard with a pocket full of nothing and a mouth full of words. In the breadline again, I should just call it my home, fishing change from dirty mouths of the public phones. Daily swallowing the squalor that you've only heard of, all the ashes down below and all the rain from above. Another slum rat asking me to spare him a joint--I could pull on the money machine, but really what'd be the point? In the shipwreck of the city where the tragedies sing, and I'm just another echo, watch me ring ring ring. Yeah I'm misery with company, I got nothing new--a broke down repeater with a five nickel view. Screaming at the streetlights and I'm bound to be heard, say you love me or you hate me, all I'm hearing is words. "You'll never be nobody, never going nowhere." I got the train coming at me and I just don't care. With my soul on the market and I feel so strange; nobody's buying anyway, can't break a penny for change...besides, who'd be there to split the rails if I were to go away?
Errr. i miss u!
so we just listen to my jak locke metal cd while on our way back home from smokein with our boy jason and i was thinking how much i want to see u guys play. lets make this happen.
I didn't even realize that you were playing with Sick Like Sinatra this weekend! And I already made other plans. Oh well, it's all the way in Covington. I probably wouldn't have been able to get out there anyway. Have a great weekend! Tell SLS I said what's up.
How's it going? Lee told me you had a previous engagement, that sucks. It's cool though, not like it will be the last show. I was looking forward to it though!
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