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Press
May 2005
For all of the talk about Dave Matthews in Johnathan Kuss And The Corporation's press kit, Segue sure as hell sounds nothing like DMB. Instead, these 12 tunes are straightforward rock 'n' roll burners. Lots of guitar, big hooks, and sticky melodies is the group's recipe on tracks like "All My Horses" and the infectious "Superficial." In a perfect world, this is how rock radio would sound.
- Trevor Fisher
....Kuss has a winning voice, and he and his band execute these songs in a way that has you feeling as though you're in a smoke-filled bar, hearing them live and thoroughly enjoying them..... - Gary Glauber
August 2004
This CD Rocks! If you like the Dave Matthews Band the you’ll love this. From the song “Superficial” to “Beautiful Addiction”, Segue is solid all the way thru. Keep an eye out for these guys because they are on their way to stardom! Already receiving airplay in the mid west, you bet your ass we will be hearing from them on the east coast soon. Keep rockin.
- MicroCinema Magazine Online
Kuss arrives out of now where reminding us, in its strongest parts, of classic Graham Parker and Elvis Costello(and a bit `o Dylan) with a bit of spit swapping at the corner coffeehouse. In fact, imagine further some European scientist slinking by and swabbing samples of their collective drool to let them fester in a Petri dish. What may emerge would be a clone of Johnathan Kuss. "Segue" is 12 songs that twist and turn their way through a familiar, yet murky passage of life. and while it is difficult to pin Kuss and his band in a particular genre, their music borders on a Dylan-esque sort of folk, all while maintaining an embraceable pop/rock accessibility. It`s hard to pin down where to genre-cize Kuss---and that struggle is part of why "Seque" is an album whose charms stick as the listener commits to spending quality time with it. First listen, it`s pleasant enough..but it`s the subsequent listens where you realize Kuss is onto something that few writers of similar ilk and pull off well - the crackling, rootsy, magically acoustic-driven songs mesh with the bands` adrenaline and the musical knife probes deep - leaving the scar of a song remembered. The finely accented rhythm section holds down the fort letting the the grandeur of the slow-building anthemics take front stage, never rushing. Commit and enjoy for years to come. An extremely strong and promising debut! - www.notlame.com
Discography
"loom" EP
blasted king records 2005
"segue" LP
not cool records 2004
"the anxiety of influence sessions" EP
not cool records 2001
"dude, where's my car?" soundtrack
20th Century Fox/Sire Records 2001
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Bio
Kuss is a songwriter first. His degree in Art, and love for performance, has emerged as a passionate quest to interpret the essence of life through infectious pop and raw rock.
Johnathan has already landed a song ("Lunatic," Not Cool Records) on the major movie soundtrack, "Dude, Where's My Car?" (20th Century Fox), with his former band Silt.
"The music is perfect...it's upbeat and alternative just like the movie ("Dude,Where's My Car?")," says Julia Michels Vice President 20th Century Fox Music.
Knotmag.com, based in Minneapolis, adds Johnathan, is on "his way to rock stardom...at least something good came out of that movie."
After leaving Silt, Johnathan teamed with charismatic producer Jimmy "the" Johnson (Cheap Trick, the Pimps) to record his first solo cd "Anxiety of Influence Sessions," for Not Cool Records. The studio session worked so well, that the players who recorded "Anxiety" became the band and "Johnathan Kuss and the Corporation" were born.
It makes you get up and start dancing," says Thomas Barisi of Bienna Vista Movie Productions in Switzerland of "Lunatic," he goes on to say, "I can't wait to hear the new album."
Well, the new album has arrived.
Alastair Brown, of SBN Radio- London says, "It sounds especially good with coffee and donuts." And while that may be true, Kuss's new CD, "Segue" delivers a power-packed punch that would leave many "folksters" seething with envy. His ability to meld
pure and genuine lyrics with a catchy synthesis of pop/rock grooves make him a natural headlining candidate for the alternative spirituality boom.
"Segue" is Kuss's second release on "Not Cool" the artist friendly label formed by "the" Johnson and founded, in part, by the the muscle of rock super-group Cheap Trick. "Segue" is 12 songs that twist and turn their way through a familiar, yet murky passage of life. And while it is difficult to pin Kuss and his band in a particular genre, their music boders borders on Dylanesque sort of folk, all while maintaining an embraceable pop/rock accessability -- which is why some in Rockford believe there may finally be a follow up to the elusive success of fellow home-town boys, Cheap Trick.
Kuss has received airplay the UK and US airplay and regularly performs in Chicago, Champaign, DeKalb, and Minneapolis.
A few of the stations that have added JK&tC to their playlists:
-Z106 WZND Normal, IL
-LCR Loughborough U.K.
-URY YorkU.K.
-89.3 KOHL Fremont, CA
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