Up until only one month before their first rehearsal, the members of this band all lived in different states. They booked their first show San Francisco s prestigious Noise Pop Festival the band had even collectively met in the same room. And in four months time, the band went from telephone conversation theory to Washington, D.C. s Salad Days Studio to ready their first-ever album. Such is the story behind New End Original and Thriller, the band s exceptional debut full-length for Jade Tree.
     
      Though experiencing viable success as a solo artist under his Onelinedrawing guise, Jonah Matranga hard rock band Far friends that he met along the way. Norman Arenas pioneers Texas Is The Reason far back as 1998, when the pair first concei-ved the idea of collaborating. Charles Walker, who spent the better part of the decade playing drums for the much-loved Indiana troupe Chamberlain, made the next connection last year when he found himself sitting in for ex-Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega s solo project on a UK tour with Onelinedrawing. The band solidified when Arenas and Walker m... (More NEW END ORIGINAL Biography)