February 9, 2012
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Featured Artist of the Month: Occasional Monster

I think humans have a built-in need to categorize things.  We tend to try and take each new experience and file it neatly away under one of several general headings we maintain in our mental archives.  Good luck trying to do that with this month's BSconnection.com featured artist.  Occasional Monster is a band from central Ohio composed of Bobby Dunkle – Guitar, Dan Sherwood – Guitar and Vocals, Jerod Elder – Bass and Vocals, Michael Knapp - Drums and Cymbals, and Ross Hockman - Trombone, Keyboard and Airsynth. 

If OM’s music was a wine, I would describe it as, “Adventurous without being self-indulgent.”   Here is how they describe themselves:

“we are commonly described as Alternative, but such a one word description defies the complexity and schizophrenic range that is our hallmark. We range from acoustic folk to heavy music that rides the fence between hard rock and metal. During that journey between extremes, we traverse through other territories including old-school country, jazz, blues, funk, and noise. Sure, we are not the first band to pull off this smashup of genres, but we are among a select few that do it while maintaining equal importance for the art of song craft. Not all songs are a journey, but you can be assured that you cannot faithfully predict where each new song may go by it’s first thirty seconds, nor it’s first four minutes.”

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