Joyer

Oh, brothers, where art thou? Making loud shoegaze in the basement, probably...

- JOE BOSSO

GUITARISTS NICK AND Shane Sullivan, who lead the East Coast-based shoegaze/bedroom pop band Joyer, credit their parents with providing them a solid musical education. “They were into so much music, starting with the Sixties and Seventies classic rock and stretching into the Nineties and alternative rock,” Shane says. “We heard all of it — everyone from the Beatles to the Feelies. I think that created a through-line for all the bands Nick and I got into on our own.”

Nick points to bands like Velocity Girl, Yo La Tengo and Lillies as touchstones for tone and style.