Biography
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Born
23 September 1982 (age 42)
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Born In
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States
Joe Hawley is an American musician best known for being the lead singer and guitarist of rock band Tally Hall.
He formed the comedy troupe anonyMous in 2002 alongside Rob Cantor and other members. Upon completion of their film 'Sargasm' in 2003 and the group's disbandment, the two would go on to form Tally Hall, with many skits from Sargasm eventually appearing in the latter band's internet show. Hawley played on both of Tally Hall's studio albums, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum and Good & Evil, before it went on indefinite hiatus in 2011.
Hawley spearheaded the musical project ミラクルミュージカル (Miracle Musical in English), releasing the project's sole album Hawaii: Part II on December 12th, 2012 at 12:12am. The album includes contributions from Tally Hall members Ross Federman, Rob Cantor and Zubin Sedghi, alongside Bora Karaca and several others. The album recieved significant acclaim among fans and physical copies continue to fetch high prices on second-hand markets.
Hawley's first solo material under his own name, Joe Hawley Joe Hawley, was announced on June 15th, 2016 as a PledgeMusic campaign, reaching it's fundraising goal in five days. Although initially available on Bandcamp for a short period, the album faced distribution issues due to it's heavy usage of uncleared samples, resulting in the release of γɘlwɒH ɘoႱ γɘlwɒH ɘoႱ in 2019, consisting of the same album but entirely reversed. The unaltered album was finally released on streaming services in 2020.
Hawley has released multiple singles since the release of Joe Hawley Joe Hawley, the first being Special featuring Isaac Castor and Marcy Nabors.
In 2018, he released Since I Don't Have You, a cover of The Skyliners song of the same name. The track featured Casey Shea and Coz Baldwin, the creator of the popular Tally Hall fansite HiddenInTheSand.
In 2019, he released Weird Bed &/or Yes Please alongside a reversed version onto streaming services.
In 2020, he released Sleigh Ride Invincibility Star onto streaming services, a track which was originally released in 2011 on the Suburban Sprawl Music Holiday Sampler 2011. The artwork was drawn by Discord user 'tallybrawl'.
In 2021, he released Everything Means Nothing to Me (Instrumental), a chiptune rendition of a song by Elliott Smith, onto streaming services. A version with vocals by India Valladares Lovelace IV was also released, but was later removed.
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