Artists

  The Hojos

     Albums        

   Demo (2006)

   Garage-rock nastiness.  You need this album yesterday.  
 

Artist Bio: The Hojos

Kristin (Hojos drummer) and Brandon (guitar/vocals) met in elementary school when they were 6 and 7 years old. Their families were long-time friends and the couple ended up spending a lot of time together at school and in church where Kristin's father was a pastor. They ended up dating in high school and attending Georgetown College together where they both studied art. Shortly after graduation from college, the couple were married in 2002 and moved into a small house on a dairy farm. A house which oddly enough served as a home to both Brandon and Kristin's families at different times. Melissa (guitar, Kristin's younger sister) moved in with the couple in early 2003 after a five-month stay in Romania with her parents who had become missionaries in the town of Brasov. Melissa had taken up guitar while overseas and was progressing quite well, inspired by her dad's bluegrass background. One night, in a tiny room while trying to bang out Madonna covers, the Hojos were born. Melissa was on acoustic guitar and a Fisher-Price xylophone while Kristin (who did not yet have a drum-kit) was playing a Romanian souvenir flute. The music (and instruments) wasn't all there, but the feeling was right. Brandon wrote the Hojos first song, "I Hated That Job," right on the spot. Kristin was later given an old drum kit by a college friend which she stripped to the basics of a kick and snare. Then the Hojos added electricity, let it simmer,  then boiled it down to the snarling, garage-rocking beast that we now know.

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