An Interview & Performance Peek from Kind Monitor's Joshua Guthals
--by Becca Roth
Four months ago, on a crowded subway, Aja Spears and Joshua Guthals first met. She was batting her eyelashes, minding her own business, when a tall, dark and handsome man bumped into her with his guitar case. He apologized profusely and told her she was very beautiful. They began spending lots of time together, and four months later wound up with a residency at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn, singing beautiful duets to intellectual indie audiences every Thursday in July. Perfect fairy tale? Except that Joshua’s gay. (Or maybe that’s even more perfect?)
Joshua (seen above! watch!) is the frontman for the up-and-coming Brooklyn-based band Kind Monitor (or perhaps he himself is Kind Monitor; the world may never know). I was fortunate enough to catch the first installment of “The Aja and Joshua Show” last Thursday at Pete’s, where Joshua and his impossibly stunning subway-riding friend Aja enchantingly harmonize acoustic originals as well as covers. Not only is the duo very nice to look at, but their unique sound, mixed with the cool red atmosphere of the intimate but not stuffy space that is Pete’s Candy Store, is something definitely worth checking out.
Why should you know all this? The pair will perform four more weekly (free!) shows at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg at 9 PM. The show is under an hour (it’s a school night) and every week is a different set, so keep on comin’ back!
More Kind Monitor show info, and the "Cairo" video, after the jump!
Kind Monitor will be performing at Joe’s Pub in NYC on August 30th. Check out the band on MySpace, Facebook, and at his own site for more info.
And if you’re not in the New York area (or if you are), check out Kind Monitor’s dark and artsy video for their song "Cairo." (You can watch it below!) And vote for it on Logo’s The Click List!
Becca and John and LogoTV -- thanks for being there last week and hearing our set! We enjoyed spending time with you and we'll send lots of people to your Click List to vote and watch videos (especially Cairo).
Also, in memory of MJ, here's a video I made of Billie Jean years ago in LA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuYCGLL3Wt8
Thanks again,
Joshua
Posted by: Joshua | July 08, 2009 at 04:11 PM
I was there and this was a great show! Mr. Guthals and Ms. Spears are an unlikely couple, but they have some serious symbiosis going on. Or do I mean chemistry? Or do I mean juxtapositration!
Posted by: Casey Carruthers | July 08, 2009 at 04:42 PM