futurebabes

Beginning like all worthwhile creative projects, vocalist and beat maker Jed Murphy had a break up with a long term girlfriend and was left with half of the gear of a previous band. Suddenly faced with the uncertainty of (almost) crippling sadness, Jed turned to the music as therapy and began to fully embrace his own sound. Dark, dreamy, and melodramatic, Jed utilized a synthesizer, two samplers and a drum machine to free himself of the reliance on computers that had become so popular. After countless late night hours in his work office he crafted the magic number of five songs and knew he couldn't stop there. He needed to get it out into the world. He needed a band and he needed to play shows or the past would never be left behind.

Then came Mikey Unruh. Thee local bassist who held it down in Greeley for numerous projects before switching to the self-production of hip hop. Like Jed, Mikey had his fill of bands that would fall apart for avoidable and often trivial reasons. Taking a chance on the music, Mikey joined up and futurebabes took form.

Over the next few years Jed and Mikey gigged the Northern Colorado area regularly, recruiting a few guitarists along the way but the meat of the music laid comfortably on the shoulders of Jed and Mikey. Opening for so many incredible musicians they admired and respected, they learned to wear the restless sadness that is Jed's sound like a shield. When that shield was up, nothing could get passed and people began to listen.

Signing to BandWagon Records they released their first EP Day Job in the fall of 2015. The release was the final goodbye to a point in Jed's life he looked back on apprehensively. The songs were his past and he was moving forward and he couldn't stop now.

Since then, futurebabes have been hitting the scene hard with show after show and the release of two new singles in 2016, followed by several more in 2017. No longer being crushed by the self-pity he had when futurebabes began, Jed has moved to become the speaker for others who have struggles of their own.