The Jonny Lives! debut full-length album, Get Steady is available though the band’s website. Click here to get an autographed copy!
A percentage of sales from each album sold through the band’s website will be put towards Rock "N Renew.
Album includes guest appearances from Nick Valensi (The Strokes), Sammy James Jr (The Mooney Suzuki) & Jody Porter (Fountains of Wayne).
"Jonny Lives! is the epitome of the thriving New York garage rock scene”. -mtvU.com
“Combining raunchy guitars with catchy pop hooks, the band's debut album, “Get Steady,” plays like a soundtrack for the city. It's full of high-tension, electric exhilaration; all-night party songs offset with the occasional moment of acoustic tranquility.” -SPIN.com
About Jonny Lives!
Jonny Lives! lush & dirty, glossy & gritty Lower East Side sound blares with an urgency that'll push you out of your seat.
“The East Village of NYC is our muse. There's a copious amount of energy going round, and it's all inspiration for our music.”
That's Jonny Dubowsky, namesake and leader of Jonny Lives!. Hailing from the same scene that championed The Strokes, the Mooney Suzuki, Fountains of Wayne, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jonny Lives! takes cues from the Brit-pop, rhythm ‘n blues, and LES punk scenes of the 60's and 70's and updates it with unbridled, anthemic rock..
Road-testing in the UK proved that Jonny Lives! is on to something. NME Magazine raved: “Jonny Dubowsky quakes like a hairless hellcat,” and “Jonny Lives! are so pant-droppingly brilliant that this reviewer has just been ordered to tame them down so you don't eat the magazine from sheer lust and excitement. So yes, ahem, Jonny Lives! Quite good. Ones to watch.”
NME also wrote “indeed Jonny does live.....but we had no idea he was in a way-cool NY rock and roll band…On ‘Get Steady,' Jonny Dubowsky manages to sound exactly like 'Raw Power' era Iggy.”
There is no higher praise than that, folks
Dubowsky, who attended NYU as a philosophy major, has been “inspired by great writers: Walt Whitman, Marcel Proust…I read a lot,” he chuckles. Christian Langdon (guitar/vocals), Tommy USA (bass), Jon Weber (drums) bring the noise with a delivery that articulates what's possible when a group of individually talented artists with obvious respect and affection for each other put it all together. Yes, Christian is “a Langdon” – the younger brother of a certified rock family – and Tommy USA laid down the groove on Liz Phair's White Chocolate Space Egg.
“We're enchanted with The Kinks, the Stones, and The Who,” says Jonny, who writes “little vignettes…I paint a situation out of thin air, play around with the characters, and tell whatever story I want to tell.”
From the street to the art-scene, Jonny’s “Everybody's Trying to Break You Down,” on the other hand, was inspired by Yoko Ono's exhibition of interactive performance art at Carnegie Hall.
With a strong fan base for their live shows in the UK, a hand-full of impressive performance write-ups, and some brilliant rock songs, Jonny Lives! just finished their 3rd tour of the U.S with Everclear, and is preparing to go out on the first Rock ‘n Renew tour.
“There's a lot going on, and it mostly happens at 3am when everyone else is asleep. But not us. We're out every night writing about life as it happens.” Here's your invitation to join them.
For more info visit: www.myspace.com/jonnylives





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