Sometimes it's just me and an acoustic guitar and sometimes it's me and some of the following amazing folks: Martin Rice: Bass, Chris Skogen: Guitar/Keyboards, James Salter: Bass, John Freiberger: Drums, Lance Rowland: Guitars/Bass
Influences
I don't sound like them, but I love... Aimee Mann, Antenna, Apples in Stereo, Beck, Ben Folds (Five), Birdiie, Blake Babies, Bright Eyes, Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham, Broken-Lines, Buffalo Tom, Cat Power, Centro-Matic, Clem Snide, Cowboy Junkies, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Echo & the Bunnymen, Eisley, Elvis Costello, Eric's Trip, Fiona Apple, Flaming Lips, Fountains of Wayne, Grandaddy, Hot Hot Heat, Ida, Ivy, James Iha, JAMC, Juliana Hatfield, Liz Phair, Low, Luna, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Mary O Harrison, Mates of State, Neko Case, Patrick Park, Pavement, Pete Yorn, Phantom Planet, PJ Harvey, The Postal Service, The Preakness, R.E.M., Radiohead, The Rentals, Rhett Miller, Rufus Wainwright, Sarah Harmer, The Shins, Sloan, Sonic Youth, Stephen Malkmus, Sufjan Stevens, Superchunk, Television, The Thrills, Tom Petty, U2, The Weakerthans, Weezer, Wilco, Sonic Youth, Rhett Miller, Fountains of Wayne, Luna, Pete Yorn, Ida, The Weakerthans, Wilco, and a million others, you get the idea.
I just listened to the following songs on my computer:
My Favorite artists in the last week:
Sounds Like
No One Would Miss Us @ Smith's Olde Bar - 5/29/2007
John McNicholas is a singer/songwriter based in Atlanta, GA. John has honed his writing talents by writing, performing and releasing albums with alternative favorites Spiller, Lie, Misfortune 500 and most recently performing with indie-darlings Honeyrider, Dank and Sparkys Nightmare. He considers himself and unlikely songwriter in that his songs are character sketches of his life and the lives of people and friends around him. He doesnt so much write, as he observes and records his thoughts with music. His songs can be as awkwardly personal as those by Juliana Hatfield, as tongue-in-cheek as those by Fountains of Wayne and Ben Folds and as vivid and descriptive as those by Pete Yorn and Dean Wareham (Luna).
John McNicholas, the band, mines a sound nestled somewhere between Fountains of Wayne, the Wallflowers, Ryan Adams and Pete Yorn. John has performed at WMNFs Tropical Heatwave, IPO New York, the In the Raw concert series and has have opened shows for a number of diverse artists like Marilyn Manson, Fastball, Cyndi Lauper, Superchunk, Patti Smith, the Mooney Suzuki and many others.
Hair Apparent: The Man Man Records Tribute To Hair Bands comining soon to iTunes and other digital outlets. Available now at www. mainmanrecords. com and Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ.
Thanks John - It was great meeting you and thank you for your contribution. I'm going to be watching you schedule and will come out to see you soon. Jim
We (meaning everyone at STS) are the luckiest kats in the world!!! To have shared YOU!!! Thank you SO much for being part of STS!!! I am so glad you are in my life!!! xoxoxoxoxox
Hi yo!! Sooooo, you officially go on at 7:30PM...The Good Graces play at 7PM...sooooo we will see you about 2PM:) Thanks again for playing!!! STS love John McNicholas!!!
Hi John. I just read that you are to be joining us at MahoneyFest this May along with Lindsay Appel. This is going to be so great! I cannot wait to see you again. Love the new profile picture, by the way. ~grace~
hmm, i went to bumbershoot once but it was too crowded (although I did get close to the front row for REM)...Ronny just told me about a Woody Guthrie festival in the middle of nowhere, oklahoma that sounds about my speed.
I'll be there March 14-19, so I'll miss your set, but maybe we can still meet up! Message me your number when you have a chance. I'm staying with a friend of mine, but she works most of the day on Friday so it'd be fun to pal around with ya if you're free!
I'm having a party for my 39th B-day at Skippers Friday April 4th at 7:00pm. I hope you will put it on the calender and come have some fun.
we will eat and visit ,party and then a sick fusion band that I dig called Garaj Mahal ,featuring one of my favoret bassists Kai Eckhart will be playing, tickets will be half off for all my peeps so it's like $5.00
Please help spread the word to all our old school friends and rock on.
