Jak Locke

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".

What does Jak Locke sound like then?


PRETENTIOUS BIO
With rock, it's David Bowie channeling the ghosts of James Brown and John Lennon. Acoustic, it's Beck and Dylan debating Thomas Paine and the nonexistence of love on the eve of the apocalypse. Metal, it's Acid Bath covering Nine Inch Nails with Merzbow opening. Basically, the anti-John Mayer, the anti-Nickelback, the anti-safe.