So Many Colors: The Vibrant World of Akron/FamilyBorn in 2002 of a small apartment-cum-rehearsal space in Brooklyn, the band known as Akron/Family devised a "playful but hermetic quasi-religious/sonic worldview/creed known as AK." The result is a vibrant avant-pop that has shaken the irony saturated art-rock world.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
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Josh Potter is a freelance writer/editor with a chronic inability to settle down. In his travels he has sold books on an Atlantic island, gutted houses in storm-ravaged Biloxi, MS, made bourgie coffee drinks in rainy NW haunts, climbed Mexican limestone, toured as a musician, spent a Spring of solitude in the White Mountains of NH, eaten from dumpsters, and worked on an organic farm in Santa Cruz, CA. He currently resides in upstate NY and is Assistant Editor at Metroland, Albany's alt-weekly.
In addition to his regular contribution of music journalism to Relix Magazine, State of Mind, and Jambase.com, his fiction can be found in Pindeldyboz, Elimae, Thieves Jargon, The American Drivel Review, The Taj Mahal Review, and The No-Record Anthology.Â
