Only a couple months into their coupledom, Major Matt Mason USA and Nan Turner began jamming. Nan's prior music experience was playing guitar and sometimes bass in the all-girl punky pop band Bionic Finger. Matt's experience included playing guitar in noisepop bands in Kansas, but he was mainly doing solo acoustic shows in New York when he met Nan. In the honeymoon of their romance, Matt brought his electric guitar out of hibernation and Nan started banging the drums. Schwervon! was born.

Their first album was called Quick Frozen Small Yellow Cracker, named after a mysteriously labeled box in the hallway of their NYC apartment. This CD solidified their sound as a "Sonny and Cher meets Pixies" garage rock couple who who weren't afraid to get down to their dirty truths.... and let you into their living room with ruminations on love, food, money, and their urban surroundings. Their second CD, titled Poseur, found them kicking up the volume and production a notch, tinging their songs with some psychedelic frustration, while continuing to hone their bittersweet "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" pop narratives.