Bio

Petty Crux. Trying to solve this phrase might turn out to be as significantly pointless as whatever the name actually means. Each of the guys will give you a different explanation, and you can either dismiss it as nonsense or emphatically agree. In the end it's probably best to come up with your own. The Petty Crux story is as intriguing (if not confusing) as it's name. Take as an example: where are they actually from? Surfing the net will give you conflicting answers. Miami? Brooklyn? Los Angeles? The truth is--all of the above. After leaving their band in Miami, Clemente and Jay started filming a documentary called “Name Our Band” that would follow them across the U.S. as they searched for new band members. The project eventually lost momentum; however, it did manage to discover Steve in Colorado and adopt the fan-suggested-name, Petty Crux. Old friend and bandmate Paul Hoover joined shortly after when the others decided to base themselves in Los Angeles. By this time Clemente was living in NYC working at an ad agency and playing solo acoustic shows in the city. Steve was finishing his degree in Denver while Jay remained in Miami. Paul warmed the bed for them in LA, anxiously awaiting their arrival. For close to a year Petty Crux was scattered across the country like this, but the guys still managed to write and record songs without ever being all together in the same room. Finally together now in LA, Petty Crux has created a unique combination of influence and style that explodes into an addictive and diverse rock sound. Their most recent releases are songs that dance in and out of delicate, atmospheric melodies and aggressive, powerful guitar drives. The soul of their music however, lies in their creation of haunting and evocative vocal harmonies. All the members of Petty Crux write and all of them sing. A collaboration like this can only be a recipe for something huge. Already playing both statewide and internationally, the band is sure to live up to their riddle of a name.