Scott Morrow

Janel & Anthony

Review: Janel & Anthony’s Where is Home

Janel & Anthony: Where is Home

Janel & Anthony: Where is Home (Cuneiform, 5/22/12)

“Big Sur”

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A dynamic DC duo versed in the East, the West, and the rest, Janel & Anthony is cellist Janel Leppin and guitarist Anthony Pirog. Together, they’ve studied and performed everything from surf rock to jazz, modern classical, and Hindustani ragas, and those assorted influences mesh into one beautiful, indecipherable whole on Where is Home, their second full-length album.

Anywhere

Members of The Mars Volta, Triclops!, Minutemen, and Sleepy Sun announce debut as Anywhere

Because the world needs more awesome super-groups, Christian Eric Beaulieu of Triclops!, Cedric Bixler Zavala of The Mars Volta, and special guests Mike Watt (Minutemen) and Rachel Fannan (Sleepy Sun) have coalesced as a project called Anywhere.

The group’s style is a blend of Eastern-influenced acoustic/psych punk, and you can hear the jangly, falsettoed, self-titled single below. Anywhere’s self-titled debut is out in the USA on July 24 via ATP Recordings.