BJSR & Young Heirlooms

Taylor Alexander
Young Heirlooms
BJSR

A soulful Cincinnati native. Taylor Alexander mixes rock, blues and pop values simultaneously creating a sound & style all his own. Opening for Trevor Hall in 2009, the trio, with Alexander at the helm began a new journey after playing in bands both seperately and together. Taylor Alexander released his debut solo EP in 2012. It is currently available on iTunes. Rock, soul, blues, pop adding to a smooth vocal delivery, coupled with thoughtful lyrics/songwriting. Taylor Alexander will stimulate your musical senses.

Young Heirlooms is a new take on the evolution of folk music. With a focus on creating cerebral, well-composed music, Young Heirlooms is set out to mix your emotions with a wall of sound. Expect a choir of vocal harmonies similar to that of a Brian Wilson record. With songwriting influenced heavily by todays artists like Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes, Young Heirlooms brings a new element of shoegaze with melodic theatrics to their music amounting to something truly new and inspiring.

Ben Rivet, performing under the name BJSR, has been cutting his musical teeth in Ohio for the last eight years since moving from the Mitten to study music at the University of Dayton. Whether it's with his guitar, his looping station and beatboxing, or with a variety of band arrangements, Rivet's baritone voice and indie, folk, pop influences are the connective tissue behind "BJSR