Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founder of Austin, Texas-based Alt-Rock band Arctic Wave, who have been releasing lots of new music in the first months of this year. Having worked with a GRAMMY-winning producer, the band just last week released a new music video. He is also the founder of a nonprofit, serves on the board of a different nonprofit, and helps fund education programs through his church. The band’s top five songs on Spotify alone have a combined total of approximately 328 thousand streams and their official YouTube channel has well over 200 thousand combined video views.
“Our outward appearances don't always reflect inner turmoil. Or in some cases, they don't always reflect inner gratitude.”
“I had been writing songs for about a dozen years. And it initially started, frankly, as a vanity project. I thought I'd take a dozen of my tunes and have them very professionally done. And through a friend of a friend, I was able to meet with Will Hensley, who was a GRAMMY-winning producer, mixed with Coldplay, and is a mad guitarist in his own right.”
“Will brought a plug and play group of musicians. We've now recorded three albums. Those musicians include – it’s anonymous as of now, but I will tell you – a keyboardist for one of the top ten rock bands of all time, a lead singer for a pop band that has had two or three international number ones and charted several times in the U.S., an unbelievable funk bassist, and a drummer who has toured with Diana Krall and Culture Club and others.”
“I'd never written a song until I got divorced and had a four-year-old daughter who drew a picture of a box house, two box houses with a stick mother figure out of one, a stick father figure out of the other, and a stick girl in the middle being pulled like a wishbone between two competing parents. And that tugged massively at my heartstrings as I think it would any parent. And that wrote itself.”
“Within six months I was divorced, two of my four best friends who were twins committed suicide, my mom died, I lost a job, it was the proverbial rock bottom.”
“When I write a song, I'll play basic chords with the keys, then loop on top of that, maybe a counter melody, then loop on top of that, keys that are playing the note that should be sung, and then I'll do a version with my voice, which is far from the finished version. And I'll tell the guys that I have a lot of different musical influences … to give them freedom, not dictating every note that they play, but dictating the style and the chords and the structure and the lyrics.”
“We have thought about touring… that is definitely on the table for 2026, and I am reasonably confident that we'd be able to get booked perhaps as an opening act.”
“There's a saying where much is given much is required, and I try to take that to heart.”
“It used to be the bands would tour to try to gain notoriety and that would drive profitability through album sales. And now it's not that way at all. Most bands profit from merch sales and actual touring.”
“Befriend a more prominent band and try to get access to its audience by opening for them.”
“I spent one week dating alcohol at age 17 and married it the next week and didn't divorce (it) for 25 to 30 years later and left a trail of mayhem in my wake I am not proud of that.”
“Veneer”
“God Ain’t Through”