This is a Music Box 10th Anniversary Party: Featuring Kevin Morby, James Bishop, DJ Ian Utero
  • Kevin Morby

    Kevin Morby

     Kevin Morby is a Kansas City based singer/songwriter. With his seven acclaimed solo albums and myriad records of various collaborations, Morby has become a true musical auteur. His singular vision, evocative lyrics, and aptitude for catchy, dense songwriting has placed him firmly among the ranks of modern icons. Each Morby record possesses its own unique persona and explores intriguing themes and fertile terrain through shifting, focused textures and dexterous, dedicated skill. This Is A Photograph, Morby’s latest album, finds him making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. The creatively invigorated songwriter has managed to align his finest songs, best vocal performances, most incisive lyrics, and his most lush arrangements to date.
  • James Bishop

    James Bishop

    James Bishop spent five months hiking through the California backcountry, amassing a cache of iPhone recordings along the way. He spent the following  five years turning those samples into his debut album, BODYBOUND, working out of an abandoned schoolhouse modular on a farm outside San Francisco. 

    There are no studio instruments on BODYBOUND. Instead, thunderstorms become synthesizers, rustling pinecones become drums, and an orchestra emerges from a chorus of creaking iron gates. Bishop's live performances are a spellbinding audiovisual experience — rendering his trail songs to their fullest ambition.

  • DJ Ian Utero

    DJ Ian Utero

     DJ Ian Utero is the alter ego of Eric Howarth, founder of the Vinyl Junkies Record Shack in San Diego, CA and concert production company Daydream Nation Presents. Spinning everything from Funk and Soul, Psych and Garage, Hip Hop to Afrobeat and more, DJ Ian Utero has rocked venues and festivals throughout Southern California for years.