John Brandon Zubler

Position: Wildcard

One of my clearest, earliest memories is unbuckling my seatbelt and breaking a three hour silence. It was a silence that had been filled with easy-listening programming from the mid-80’s. I forced my way into the front seat of our car and asked my parents why it was that EVERY SONG WE HEARD was about love.

I don’t remember what their exact answer was, but I do remember that it wasn’t substantial; to them, what they had heard over the past three hours was fine, desirable even, and they had no reservations about going another three hours on the same exact station.

Something inside me felt absolutely compelled to say that this homogenous situation felt fundamentally confusing. Wasn’t music supposed to address more than one topic? Didn’t it have the capacity to be something much more diverse?
Of course it did.

I knew it then as strongly as I know it now.

Also, I am the brains behind this entire operation.