Tag Archives: Sam Zurick

Shaped in 2003, Make Believe are another reshuffling of players through the ’90s Chicago emo/indie rock and roll scene (Joan of Arc, Cap’n Jazz, Owls, Spirits and Vodka, etc.), this time around offering guitarist Sam Zurick, bassist Bobby Burg, and cousins Nate Kinsella on drums and Tim Kinsella on vocals. …

Short-lived but extremely important, Cap’n Jazz helped transform emo from a deeply underground punk subgenre right into a even more widely recognized subset of indie rock. Not really terribly well-known or well-known beyond the Midwest, Cap’n Jazz’s main contribution was stylistic — alongside Pinkerton-era Weezer, they helped change emo’s always-elusive …

Owls began in 2001, splintering from an extended lineage of high-concept rock and roll rings all centralized throughout the initiatives of several close friends who’d been using together since their early high-school times. This staff of musicians began playing spirited and screamy melodic emo as Cap’n Jazz, surviving in comparative …