Joshua Powell

JOSHUA POWELL is the tender wizard at the helm of Indiana’s most haunted astral rock band. From his hardcore roots in the Floridian swamps and beyond the fever dream of his troubadour folk era, Powell’s songs have drifted through genres but maintained a crystalline vision for literarily-informed lyrics that dig for enlightenment in a surrealist muck. Comprising his band are born drummer BROTHER JACOB and virtuosic low end architect BASS MOUNTAIN.

In 2021 the band signed to Indiana label ROMANUS RECORDS and released SKELETON PARTY, building an aggressively arty bridge from their previous psych-infused folk rock into a heavier genre space. Audiotree wrote: “Four LP’s and over 900 shows later, the midwestern road dog’s ever- evolving, transcendent style embraces hallucinatory metal and grimy psychedelia.” 


Joshua has had songs on ABC, Freeform, AMC, and MTV and on the Spotify playlist "The Wilds" and had music in a number of queer and horror genre pictures including “Cannibal Mukbank,” “Full Moon Glory Hole,” “Drone Shot," “Retake," and “Just Like Being There."

The band has recorded sessions with PBS, Audiotree, NPR, Daytrotter, and the Emmy-awarrd winning Music in Transit. They have played Mile of Music, Nebraska Folk and Roots Festival, Midpoint Music Fest, Holler on the Hill, Audiofeed, Harvest Gathering, and All IN and shared stages with Death Cab for Cutie, As Cities Burn, Silent Planet, The Cactus Blossoms, As Cities Burn, Dawes, White Denim, and The Forecast.