JoBu

Artist Information

Biography

JoBu has been a full-fledged touring band for several years now. With the perfect mix of reggae dance vibe and head bobbing rock JoBu delivers a performance that leaves everybody ready for more. JoBu is the ultimate crowd pleaser, hooking people with catchy lyrics, and filling dance floors with hard beats. Put JoBu in front of 50,000 people and watch them shine. After the release of their first studio album “Stop Time” the band has been seeing a great increase in fan volume, especially at live performances. This success has begun to jet them across the nation with tours stretching from Milwaukee Wisconsin, to Key West Florida. Across the Midwest and in some places across the nation JoBu is becoming a household name. Their current exposure is causing an explosion of website and myspace visits, plays, and activity. Thank you for visiting!!
Check us out at www.myspace.com/jobujams
or our website at www.jobumusic.com

Jobu

Instrumentation

Aaron Vanvooren---Lead Vocals & Guitar
Matt Hines---Lead Guitar & Vocals
Andrew Neel---Bass
Evan Ryan---Drums & Percussion

Discography

Album - "Stop Time" Release Date: 5/2/2008
Album - "Assemble"
WDBX 91.1 - Carbondale

Audio

• Sunday Morning
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• Voices
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• Indie Trip
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• King of the Jungle
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Video

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Press

• Jobu new jams to Assemble [+ Show ]
  

  who: JoBu what: funk/ rock/ reggae CD release party where: Hangar 9 when: Thursday, March 22 J...who: JoBu
  what: funk/ rock/ reggae CD release party
  where: Hangar 9
  when: Thursday, March 22
  
  JoBu:
  New Jams to Assemble
  words and pictures by Shay Kelley
  
  JoBu, a local funk/reggae band that has been developing their own
  unique style of music for the last year and a half, is working hard
  to provide the sound that gets their audiences off their feet and
  onto the dance floor. Thursday, March 22 at the Hangar 9, JoBu will
  release a full-length album, Assemble, just finished and available to
  the public. They will also record audio and video of their March 22
  show, which they hope to release as a DVD. They're also performing in
  Urbana at the Canopy Club on March 23.
  Guitarists Aaron VanVooren and Matt Hines, along with bassist Andrew
  Neel, study classical guitar at SIU, bringing the sophisticated
  melodic complexities of classical music into their
  rock-and-reggae-influenced album. Making the scene complete is
  drummer/percussionist Jeb Rendall. With influences that run the gamut
  from Led Zeppelin to Metallica, Pink Floyd to the String Cheese
  Incident, these guys are nailing down a sound like none other.
  Matt Hines explained their style to Nightlife in a phone interview
  while out and about during spring break. "We've got a lot of
  different influences, like jam bands and classic rock, classical
  obviously for classical guitar, and jazz too," he said. "I think that
  we are trying to put all that rock and other jamming, mixed with a
  lot of reggae, to get people to dance a lot."
  JoBu is perpetually striving to emulate the idols of their genre, as
  well as show their audience the unique qualities that set them apart
  from their forebears.
  "We're trying to start our own kind of thing and just do what we can
  to show how our songs represent how we write material and how we feel
  about it," said Hines. "I think that complexity-wise, and with really
  cool melody lines and cool lyrics, that we've kind of done the same
  thing as a lot of bands that we idolize."
  It's obvious that with JoBu, similar to virtually every band playing
  in front of a live audience, the crowd and the prevalent energy that
  accompanies every song choice largely determines where they will take
  their music in the future.
  "We've written probably thirty originals, but ten of them we
  don't ever play because they're not really good for a live
  situation," said Hines. "Either it's like, too girlie, or it's not
  the right mood, or nobody's dancing, so we took those songs and put
  them on the side. We're really trying to focus on what makes the
  crowd move around, what makes them happy, what makes them sing along,
  stuff like that."
  Hines described their ideal goal this way: "Getting that
  vibe, creating it, and getting people to follow our band, taking it
  outside of Carbondale and getting it.... I mean, not super-huge, we
  don't want to be super rock stars where we're getting annoyed by
  cameras and all that stuff, but getting as big as we can where we've
  got a big following, and make a decent living off of it."
  Recording a full-length album was the first step in that
  direction. Even though they aren't calling Assemble a "big, official
  album" because it lacks disc jackets and they chose not to have a CD
  release party, JoBu does believe that including as many songs as
  possible on the album is a stellar way to get their sound out to the
  public.
  According to Hines, the lyrics that really seem to have
  staying power are within a song titled "Sunday Morning." Displaying
  their collective affinity for and assimilation to college life, this
  song apparently directly relates to the lives of their audience
  members, and maintains a musical complexity that engages the crowd.
  "It seems that a lot of people know the words to that song,
  it's a very easy to sing along to," said Hines. "During the chorus
  part, we've got vocal harmonies going, and I'm playing a melody line
  on my guitar over that, so it's got a lot of stuff going on. With a
  reggae-guitar part going on in the background, it's got a fun feel to
  it, and the words relate a lot to college kids and their lives...
  talking about going out and getting drunk on a Saturday night, and
  then waking up Sunday morning and being hung over."
  With shows scheduled at Tres Hombres and Hangar 9 in April,
  JoBu are also preparing to play Shawnee Saltpetre Cave for the
  unofficial holiday of April 20, with local bands Defined Perception
  and the Fuz and a few national acts. So perhaps JoBu is not in danger
  of being stalked by paparazzi any time soon, but these guys are well
  on their way to making their mark on the Carbondale music scene.
  --
  
  Chris Wissmann,
  Editor-in-Chief
  Nightlife
  
  701 West Main
  Carbondale, IL 62901
  
  office phone: (618) 549-2799
  fax: (618) 549-3664
  email: nightlif@midwest.net,CDaleRocks@yahoo.com
  website:

• Jobu [+ Show ]
  

  Summer Camp Official Guide So, four students at SIU-Carbondale get together to form a band. They...Summer Camp Official Guide
  
  So, four students at SIU-Carbondale get together to form a band. They like all kinds of music, including rock, reggae and funk. Three of the four are even studying music in college. They write some songs and play some gigs with one mission in mind – to create positive music for positive people. This band is know as Jobu.
  

• JoBu Show and Venue Catalog [+ Show ]
  

  Here is a list of some venues JoBu has played Hog’s Breath Saloon Key West FL Industry Iowa ...Here is a list of some venues JoBu has played
  
  
  Hog’s Breath Saloon Key West FL
  Industry Iowa City IA
  Vaudville Mews Des Moines IA
  Fat Jack’s Bloomington IL
  NV Ultra Lounge Bloomington IL
  IBC Brewing Co. Bloomington IL
  Daddio’s Bloomington IL
  Side Trax Carbondale IL
  Hangar 9 Carbondale IL
  Big Boys Carbondale IL
  Tres Hombres Carbondale IL
  Booby’s Carbondale IL
  Copper Dragon Carbondale IL
  PK’s Carbondale IL
  Gatsby’s Carbondale IL
  Salt Peter Caves Carbondale IL
  Canopy Club Champaign/Urbana IL
  Joe’s Champaign/Urbana IL
  Station Champaign/Urbana IL
  Fire Haus Champaign/Urbana IL
  Iron Post Champaign/Urbana IL
  Uptowner Charleston IL
  Friends and Company Charleston IL
  The Store Chicago IL
  Martyr’s Chicago IL
  Silvie’s Lounge Chicago IL
  Lincoln Park Chicago IL
  Kinetic Playground Chicago IL
  Summer Camp Chilicothie IL
  Mulligens Coal Valley IL
  Otto’s Dekalb IL
  House Café Dekalb IL
  Chicago St Pub Joliet IL
  9th St Pub Lasalle IL
  Bent River Brewery Moline IL
  Frankie’s Blue Room Naperville IL
  Eamon Patrick’s Peoria IL
  S.O.P’s Peoria IL
  Crusen’s Peoria IL
  Jtodd’s Steakhouse Plainfield IL
  Rock Island Brew Co. Rock Island IL
  SOHO Music Festival Springfield IL
  Marley’s Pub Springfield IL
  Capital City Bar Springfield IL
  Jazz Central Station Springfield IL
  Buckner’s Brewery Cape Girardeau MO
  Shamrock’s Cape Girardeau MO
  Port Cape Cape Girardeau MO
  Rude Dog Pub Cape Girardeau MO
  Mojo’s Columbus MO
  Aztar Casino Curthersville MO
  Cicero’s St. Louis MO
  Broadway Oyster Bar St. Louis MO
  Uncle Festers Bloomington IN
  Constant Springs Goshen IN
  Mousetrap Indianapolis IN
  Mug Shots Indianapolis IN
  Knickerbaker Lafayette IN
  Shoreline Brewery Michigan City IN
  Wuhnurth Music Fest Muncie IN
  The Verve Terra Haute IN
  Papa Pete’s Kalamazoo MI
  The Frequency Madison WI
  The Annex Madison WI
  
  

Setlist

We have three hours of original material & hours of cover songs.
The cover songs include classic reggae & rock songs from Bob Marley, Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, Blind Melon, Allman Brothers, etc. As well as more current groups like Moe, 311, and Sublime.

Basic Requirements

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