Biography: Jay Flash is a musician who has lived in Wisconsin his whole life and currently lives in Milwaukee. He is 26 years old and his music style would fall in the genre of "Experimental Folk". He sings as well as playing both guitar and keyboard. He has been playing piano since childhood and writing songs for the last ten years. He started playing live concerts last Spring, and since he has played many different venues in Milwaukee’s downtown scene. He has also traveled to Chicago, Nashville, and New York City to play various gigs and festivals. His primary influences are folk legends such as Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, and Bob Dylan, while his more recent influences include Radiohead, Bjork, and Animal Collective. His music can be heard on his myspace page which is: www.myspace.com/jayflasch. Jay Flash also released an album called “The Loser” last November which employs a variety of different styles and exceeds an hour in length. This album received critical acclaim from a Belgian CD Review site named Rootstime. Rootstime included Jay Flash’s “The Loser” in their 2008 Top Ten List for albums by new artists. They said of him: “Undeniably, [Jay Flash] is a very talented musician, because otherwise you may not like music in this world where the scorched and goose bumps moments succeed each other...Yet there are lively exchanges with some hope hidden amidst all this doomsday thinking and melancholy narrative. Like a person in the chaos of life looking for a new balance with music as a beacon….Jay’s voice sometimes reminds one of Rufus Wainwright, but sensitive in softer realms with a few grim turns...Those who have these dozen songs in their possession can repeatedly play them the whole year through. This winter album is not seasonal.” Jay Flash also received praise from Milwaukee’s own Shephard Express which said: “...As indicated by the title of this debut album, The Loser overflows with despair, though it's as articulate as it is achy. Flash's resigned vocals sound akin to a fresher-faced, Midwestern Lou Reed...Flash's catchy, downcast songwriting could earn him a following of disaffected acolytes a la Dashboard Confessional.” Jay Flash is releasing a new album titled "Lonesome Heroes" in May 2009.