Johnny Darko is the master of all things sans ocular. With his trusty 3 pidgin fingered typing and a faulty Mac or 2, his slowly developing review site No Eyed Bird looks to become an indie fucking machine full of reviews, advertisements for porn, elementary school cakewalks and spambots. Johnny can be reached via email at:
sleepi (at) noeyedbird.com

Without his contact lenses, Max Chen is legally blind. But sight isn’t a requirement for great music reviews. Straight from the front-line trenches to all you readers at home come the contributions of a psychotic workaholic.
E-mail: max(at)noeyedbird.com
When he’s not drunk out of his mind or working like a dog, Max is working on his own musical project Stegosaurus Rex or getting into existential crises about the meaning of life, which brings him straight back to the bottle.




Favorite Music At The Moment:

Jesu – Conqueror
Lucrecia – Like Being Home EP
Chromatics – Night Drive
The Owls – Our Hopes And Dreams
Asobi Seksu - Citrus

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Sean currently attends the University of Azusa Pacific in SoCal. If you haven't heard of it, don't worry, you're not alone. Sean's field of study is Film but fancies himself a student of human nature. (You have to ask him what that's about, but to me he sounds like some sort of social anthropologist). His longstanding passion for music came to him at at young age, being fed a steady diet of monumental soul and jazz records from both his parents and grandparents. Enjoying the the life in music, you'll either find Sean rocking out to his playlists or kicking back and writing some song lyrics of his own.
E-mail: seanchristopher(at)noeyedbird.com










Albums in Current Rotation:

Radiohead – OK Computer
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Sly and the Family Stone – Stand
Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

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Jody Amable is a music geek from California who is currently in pursuit of her Almost Famous-inspired dream job.  She grew up in San Jose under the influence of her father's musical tastes, memorizing the lyrics to The Who's Tommy before she had memorized her times tables.  In high school, she immersed herself in community theater and the local punk scene, spending her Friday nights at the Cactus Club or the Los Gatos Outhouse instead of at football games or dances.  She currently lives in San Francisco where she studies journalism at SFSU and spends her free time interning at Performer Magazine.  Her favorite band of all time is Green Day (don't hate), with The Who a very close second.
E-mail: jody(at)noeyedbird.com



CURRENTLY LOVING:
1) The Rumble Strips, Girls And Weather
2) Jason Webley, The Cost Of Living
3) The Phenomenauts, For All Mankind
4) Maldroid, Maldroid
5) Delta Spirit, Ode To Sunshine
 
OLDIES BUT GOODIES (Favorite Albums Aged 25 Years Or Older)
1) The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
2) The Who, Tommy
3) Janis Joplin, Pearl
4) The Clash, London Calling
5) Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True

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Benjamin Evans is a graduate of Colgate University.  While in New York, Evans created and hosted his own radio show entitled "Fogged Clarity," which focused on introducing listeners to an array of esoteric North American music. He recently returned from Geneva, where he served as a cultural correspondent for a Swiss journal.  Evans currently lives in Michigan where he serves as a concert and theater reviewer for the Muskegon Chronicle. Ben studies the piano and has began recording under the name Fogged Clarity.
E-mail: claritysexile(@)noeyedbird.com

LISTENS TO:
The Mars Volta, Broken Social Scene, Of Montreal, Joni Mitchell, Steel Pulse, Lionel Hampton, Donald Byrd, DoMakeSayThink, Gang Starr, Counting Crows, and anything poignant.

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Lord Byron has lived in South San Jose for most of his life, moving from school to school because they simply couldn't stand him anymore, until finding a place at the notoriously Catholic Holy Family Educational Center, where he learned more about Jesus than he would have cared to.  Eventually, order was restored to the world when he entered Lincoln High School, where he learned the high arts: drama, draw paint and design, music, and how to live without Jesus. He started playing guitar at age 14, and played in a few local bands before he knew what "frets" were. Some time after, he began to learn how to play. An avid film lover, he sought the guidance of Chapman University's film production program.

His prayers of acceptance into the school were answered, with a resounding "no." Undeterred, he entered the University's creative writing  and film studies program, and began to actually learn how to write.  He currently resides jointly in Orange County  and San Jose, simultaneously attending college and haunting his hometown from 400 miles away.
E-mail: LordByron(@)noeyedbird.com

Interests: art, literature, film, guitar, conversations (with himself or others)
Most interesting film seen in the past year: The Holy Mountain
Currently admiring: Devin Townsend, Alejandro Jodorowski, Salvador Dali, Michael  Romeo
Currently listening to (new): Cage, The Sword, Mastodon, Opeth, Phillip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle (Audiobook)
Currently listening to (old):  Dream Theater, Symphony X, Sabbath, Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Rush, Pink Floyd, The Doors

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I was born beautiful in Cleveland, Ohio. Or is it born in beautiful Cleveland Ohio. No, that can’t be right. In my early teens my evil parents ruined my life by getting me a guitar for Christmas / Hanukkah I coullda been a contender! Well, maybe. It was a ¾ size pink acoustic with flowers and kittens on it. Yes, a "girl’s guitar". I got a Stratocaster as soon as I could and turned it up to 11 and kept it there. Cleveland rocks, just like the song says.
 
In my early 20’s I escaped to California and quickly realized that I was really no better off there than in Ohio, but I nevertheless remained. After a few years of getting my hopes shattered in various "projects" that always fell apart or playing for a living in various C&W dive bands I finally  got a day job so as to be free to persue music without concern for it’s commercial viability. And I never looked back. I now live in Washington State with my cat and my significant other.
E-mail: sarah_tonen(at)noeyedbird.com





TOP LISTS:
The Descendents, Black Flag, John McLaughlin, Charles Mingus, Josef Haydn, Igor Stravinsky, Pasta, Indian Food, Mexican Food, Vietnamese Food, Canadian Food…

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Born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents, Q-Bert, was exposed to a multitude of musical genres from a very early age. At the age of 6 he moved to El Salvador to further expose himself to a different cultural milieu. At the age of 12 Q-bert returned to the Los Angeles area where his interest in music soon drew him into the seedy record stores and venues of the hollywood strip. At the age of 13 Q-bert creates his own two piece industrial group with a long time friend, the industrial-goth inspired Marching Pigs. By the end of high school Q-bert had three bands behind him, a music collection that had overrun his bedroom, and had written music reviews for his high school Newspaper. At UC Berkeley Q-bert studied ethnomusicology before settling on Anthropology, a more holistic discipline. Q-bert continued to accrue musical knowledge and play with musicians throughout his college career. Never one to embrace a single musical identity and ethos, Q-bert remains highly eclectic and in some ways impartial to all forms of musical expression.
E-mail: musica_verite(at)noeyedbird.com


CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:
Digital Hardcore, Atari Teenage Riot, Delta 9, Fade