Hobex recently released the six-song Payback EP, and have been touring the East Coast to spread their new sound. Hobex's style marks a return to the Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, James Brown and Otis Redding family from the more college-diet oriented Dillon Fence. There's more room to breath. It's an attempt to exercise negativity in preparation for a more positive debut album in the near future. We are trying to use music for positive change.
Music is a refuge.
Hobex, as in the disciples' new-born devotion, and the sandblasted integrity of three bluesmen. Witness Hobex May 15 at Elbow Room in Columbia. A new band is rising from the soup of Columbia's moist, pollinated spring. Evergreen, whose geneology is cross-cut and anchored in the Columbia music scene, began playing together about a month ago. Andreas Panagopoulos, who came to Columbia from Athens, Greece, and Trond Larsen and Hans Petter Stifoss-Hanssen, both from Norway, played together in the Columbia band One More Slave.