Jon Crocker
Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Vocals

Born: october 31, 1981 in greenville, south carolina

Current home: various west coast locations, nothing very permanent

Since the beginning of 2004: has performed hundreds of times in 41 us states, 3 canadian provinces, as well as in holland, germany, latvia, england, scotland, northern ireland, and ireland (so far...).

Former and current projects, in no particular order: jon crocker, the continental light brigade, the gnomophobes, supertall baldguy, state of confusion (or state oc, as vance likes to call it).

Has played with: sorry about dresden (saddle creek records), april sixth (elektra records), the robot ate me (kill rock stars), jeff hansen (kill rock stars), officer may (ace fu records), the lido venice (eca records), get loose (eca records), jason webley (springman records), the icicles (microindie), ghost buffalo (featuring members of planes mistaken for stars, suburban home records), viking moses (marriage records), drew danburry, kyle harvey (karl fucking hy-vee), the milwaukees (does everyone stare? records), reno divorce (does everyone stare? records), dan melchior's broke revue (in the red records, version city records), the neco novelas band (the best band from mozambique i've ever heard), sway (the original one from ventura, not the rapper or anything like that), le meu le purr (blackbird records), des ark, death country blues (featuring members of no motiv), en garde (featuring members of sorry about dresden and the scaries), and many many more. oh god, aren't i cool now?

Radio: has been played on 105.9 KNDS (north dakota state university), 95.9 KOCP (ventura, ca), 90.7 kalx (uc berkeley), 90.1 WDCE (university of richmond), 91.9 the wildcat (kansas state university), 91.9 K92 (wayne state college), 88.9 WNYO (SUNY oswego), 91.5 KRUX (new mexico state university), 91.3 wkvr (vassar college), 88.1 wmuc (university of maryland), 88.7 wxdu (duke university), 106.9 chma (mount allison university in sackville, new brunswick), 90.3 wzbc (boston college), 89.1 wmsr (miami university), wdoa (internet), wsvn (internet), totallyradio (internet), new artist radio (internet), youronlive.com (internet) and more that i forgot (such as this one station in australia, and probably a few more).

Music honors/awards/etc.: the gnomophobes song "look away" was track of the day on garageband.com. i don't remember when.
the gnomophobes were winners of the 2003 upward rising film and music festival (in the music part of it). nothing too special has happened lately...

Tours so far: midwest/southwest tour (january 2004), midwest/southeast/rocky mountain tour (april 2004), US tour (june/july 2004), west coast tour (late july 2004), north america (us and canada) tour (december 2004/january 2005), west coast tour (june 2005), US tour (august-october 2005), europe tour (december 2005). US tour (february-may 2006), europe tour (june-august 2006), plenty more to come...

Death, 2006
Edison Free Sediment Vol 2, 2006
Edison Free Sediment, 2005
Maybe Monday Afternoon, 2005
Songs About Trains And Other Things, 2005
The Dust Will Settle, 2004
Buffalo-Mein, 2003

Available direct from artist's website.

joncrocker.intelligentlystupid.com
www.myspace.com/joncrocker