THE JONX

Bio:

Read our Official Band Bio.

People often ask us what we sound like. We like to make it easy for folks like that. Here's a recording of our show at Rudyard's on January 26, 2007.

1. Everything Makes Me Happy
2. I Party To Celebrate Friendship
3. To Your Health
4. Escape (This Is Not A Song)
5. Building Tomorrow's Slums Today
6. The Scent of Earth

Recorded January 26, 2007 live to two tracks by Joe Omelchuck at Rudyard's British Pub.
Trey Lavigne - Bass, Vocals 2, 4
Danny Mee - Drums, Vocals 3, 5
Stu Smith - Guitar, Vocals 1

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DISCOGRAPHY

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Vocabularian Herds

9 tracks that are, in the words of former guitarist Viki Keener, "a lot more peaceful" than our previous albums. (She means it's TOTALLY AWESOME)

Available online from CD Baby, Amazon, and the iTunes Music Store
in Houston at Sound Exchange and Cactus Music

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No Turn Jonx Red

11 tracks that will melt your face off, then gently glue it back on. And then melt it off again!!!

Available online from CD Baby and the iTunes Music Store
in Houston at Sound Exchange and in Austin at Waterloo Records and Sound On Sound

Here are excerpts from some reviews:

The fact the Jonx [...] is able to do this without a hint of pretension is admirable. The band doesn't rely on arty vagueness, nor boring noodling; this is solid rock with brevity and punch. Even discordant moments are engaging in these hands.

The band has grown tremendously since its early EPs. The songs on No Turn Jonx Red are cohesive, and the lyrics are purposeful. The tighter playing is showcased especially well on The Scent of Earth, the 12-minute instrumental that ends the album. Add the band's powerful, spare live show, and the whole package points to one of Houston's most-inventive hard-rock bands.

This is a complicated collection to be sure, but there's nothing so difficult about the Jonx's music that should keep the band playing to just the smart kids on the Houston music scene. It's time for everyone else to take notice.

--Sara Cress, Houston Chronicle, January 25, 2007

Read the full review here.

All in all, No Turn Jonx Red keeps listeners on their toes. Rough around the edges, the group refuses to lose the grit that keeps them distinguished from other bands. And unconcerned with fitting in with other musicians, they write whatever music they want to and explore avenues others just wouldn't dare.

--Brett Koshkin, Houston Press, January 25, 2007

Read the full review here.

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The Return of the Death of the Legacy of the Revenge of the Jonx

Our first full-length album. 13 tracks.

Available online from CD Baby and the iTunes Music Store
in Houston at Sound Exchange and Cactus Music & Video,
and in Austin at Waterloo Records and Sound On Sound

Here's a review:

Years and years ago, before any of you read this magazine (because it didn't yet exist) there was a band in Houston called Dyn@mutt. They were a 3-piece outfit that wrote songs reminiscent of the late California punk band The Minutemen; they were sorely overlooked, even by Houstonians, and they were great. The guys in The Jonx know this story because they were friends with Dyn@mutt. Now they have taken their place as one of the most underappreciated bands in Houston. Yes, they sound a lot like The Minutemen, too, but unlike Dyn@mutt, The Jonx translate *much* better to disc, and though their songs might have a thousand little twists to them, they aren't built on them. These are really pop songs, and this is a really, really fun record all tight and fast like an old SST punk record of which you always figured you owned the only copy because nobody ever talked about it. "Orangelike the future," with some of the best pop moments on the album, could serve as a sort of table of contents for the band possibly even since their inception. And that's saying something, because The Jonx have gone through an almost wholesale series of changes in the past couple of years rising from the ashes of losing two key band members (and replacing them with one) and yet emerging as a band that a) to these ears, doesn't sound the same at all, and for that matter b) sounds way better, way more melodic and way more focused. Maybe that's the impetus behind that album title?
--Lance Scott Walker, *002+ Magazine*, October 2005

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I Hate It Here, I Never Want To Leave

Excellent compilation of (mostly) Houston bands that Danny put together.

Available from CD Baby.
in Houston at Sound Exchange and Cactus Music & Video,
and in Austin at Waterloo Records and Sound On Sound

The Houston Press named it Best Local CD Cover in 2005:

From the title's love-hate relationship with our fair city to the songs themselves, this CD compilation of abrasive Houston rock bands captures the mood of a town just a-fixin' to explode. The skyline photo on the cover is particularly evocative: the twisted images reflected from what looks to be the curvature of the Enron Building mirrors both the beauty and evil that is Houston. It practically threatens to melt the jewel case itself, grafting it onto your hands with waves of prickly heat. It's an accurate representation of Houston's rock scene -- and climate -- both inside and out.

And Jeremy Hart of Space City Rock had this to say as part of his review:

...After that, The Jonx throw in "These Days," a spastic, disjointed, kind of muscular-sounding piece of geek-rock (I dunno why, but the guys in the band always sound to me like they're wrestling with their instruments) that lapses occasionally into little bits of pretty melodicism...

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JONX 2: The Wrath of Shawn

Our second EP.

1. Heat Party
2. Circle of Quality
3. Wrath of Shawn
4. Heart Tell Its Attack
5. Danny Euphrates
6. In Defense Of Cake

Recorded and mixed January 10-12, 2004 by Eric Faucette and Chris Ryan at Johnny Killed Rock'n'Roll
Shawn Durrani - Bass, Vocals 6
Viki Keener - Guitar, Vocals 2
Danny Mee - Drums, Vocals 2, 5
Stu Smith - Guitar, Vocals 1, 4
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Beau Beasley - Guitar 5

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February 19, 2005

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Influences:

.. NoMeansNo, Television, Black Flag, Eric Dolphy, Morton Feldman, Franz Kafka, Minutemen, Hendrix, Pink Fairies, Led Zeppelin, Sesame Street, REM, The Who, The Grifters, Duke Ellington, The A-Team, The Police, The Jesus Lizard, Jesus Christ Superstar, Shellac, Melt-Banana, Mastodon, Thelonious Monk, and and and and and and and and and

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Record Label:

Mustache Records

Label Type:

Indie