Jon Auer

Jon Auer is co-founder of 1 of the very most critically acclaimed power pop rings from the ’90s, the Posies. Auer created the music group in Bellingham, Washington with Ken Stringfellow, developing a demonstration tape in Auer’s parents’ cellar and sending it to PopLlama Information in Seattle. The tape was well-received plus they released it as their 1st album, Failing. The band after that authorized with David Geffen’s DGC label, and released three albums which were revered by music critics but proceeded to go unnoticed by everyone. Upset the fact that Posies weren’t offering in addition to DGC’s various other Seattle-based rings, the label slipped them following the discharge of the 3rd, 1996’s Amazing Disgrace. The Posies released another LP, Achievement, on PopLlama Information, before they split up in 1998. Both Auer and Stringfellow acquired joined up with Alex Chilton’s re-formed Big Superstar in 1993, and both recorded using the band through the ’90s and 2000s. Apart from Big Superstar, Auer shifted to many different projects following the end from the Posies. In 1999, he released his initial solo EP, AN IDEAL Size, and begun to play in two Seattle rings, Lucky Me (who toured using the Posies before they split up) and Jeanjacket Shotgun (produced with Posies bassist Joe Skyward). Auer and Stringfellow released a post-Posies EP, Fine Cheekbones along with a Ph.D., in March 2001, and became a member of up for a occasionally acoustic re-formed Posies tour exactly the same season. Auer released his second single EP, a assortment of cover music known as 6 1/2, in 2001. (Jeanjacket Shotgun released their initial album, Collides Once again, the same season.) In 2005, the Posies came back in earnest with Every Sort of Light, the band’s first full-length studio room record since disbanding in the past due ’90s. Oddly enough, that same season Chilton released In Space, his initial album beneath the Big Celebrity name since reforming the group with Auer and Stringfellow. A 12 months later on, Auer also released his 1st full-length solo studio room effort Tunes from the entire year in our Demise. The Posies documented another LP, Bloodstream/Chocolate, for launch this year 2010. Auer just continuing to record and collaborate through the 2010s, showing up on two of Brendan Benson’s albums and debuting a task along with his wife entitled Dynamo Royale.