Cavashawn
Albums: Cavashawn EP (Black) (March 2008)
Cavashawn EP (White) (Released today! June 2009)
Genre: Rock/Pop
Location: Chicago, IL
Websites: Cavashawn.com, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Blog
Store: cavashawn.storenvy.com
Products sold at Storenvy: CDs, posters, tees, hoodies, totes
Products printed by Storenvy: All of the above
Storenvy: You’re releasing your second EP today, congratulations! Tell us a little about the band. What is your background? What led you to where you are today?
Jesse Feister: We met in high school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and have been playing together in various forms ever since. We went to school together at Miami University of Ohio. We moved from our college town of Oxford, Ohio, to Chicago two years ago and started Cavashawn. We share a common love of the Beatles, Mario Kart for game cube and the Midwest. I think the combination of the three has been what keeps us together.
I play drums, Scott Salmon sings and writes, Chris Hellmann plays guitar and Benton Kubicki plays bass.
SE: Could you give us a taste of the new EP?
JF: How about our music video? It was recently a MySpace music video of the day.
SE: You’ve become a pretty big deal in your hometown of Chicago, and you’ve been selected as an “Emerging Artist” by Summerfest and a Top Unsigned Artist by MySpace. Tell us about your fans, and how you got so popular!
JF: After we moved to Chicago we recorded our first EP with a local producer and hit the streets, really focusing on trying to reach out to people who were already die-hard music fans. We focused on four cities in the Midwest –- Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Milwaukee. We put up a ton of posters and handed out fliers at almost every local show, practiced our butts off and put a lot of time building a fan-base on the Internet. Eventually the word just kind of got out. We started drawing more and more people at our shows, and the local press and scene started to pay attention.
A fan-uploaded pic from the band’s Facebook page
