Jason Birchmeier: Biography

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Born:

Feb 27, 1977 in New Lothrop, MI

Genres:

Country Music, Outlaw Country Music, Progressive Country Music, Rock Music

Decades Active:

1990's|2000's

Jason Birchmeier grew up in rural Michigan and later moved to Ann Arbor, where he studied at the University of Michigan and worked for All Music Guide. A child of the '80s, he grew up watching hours upon hours of MTV and took an early interest in music, particularly heavy metal and rap. As a teen, he occupied himself with the early-'90s alternative rock scene before he moved to Ann Arbor, where he discovered the richness of Detroit's nearby musical tradition. As the result of countless wild weekend excursions to tha D, his musical interests shifted toward soul and techno. More than anything, however, his experiences working at AMG broadened his horizons in later years, reviving his interest in the rhetorical dimensions of rap and furthering his interest in the seemingly endless depths of the greater pop/rock canon.

Desert Island List

Sonic Youth: Sister

Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet

Plastikman: Musik

Marvin Gaye: Let's Get It On

Mudhoney: Superfuzz Bigmuff

Black Flag: Live '84

Earth, Wind Fire: That's the Way of the World

Funkadelic: Maggot Brain

The Cure: Disintegration

Nas: It Was Written

Prince: Purple Rain

Slowdive: Souvlaki

R.E.M.: Fables of the Reconstruction

Grateful Dead: Live/Dead

2Pac: All Eyez on Me

Luomo: Vocal City

Pavement: Slanted Enchanted

Dr. Dre: The Chronic

Bob Marley: Exodus

Tool: Lateralus

The Beatles: The Beatles [White Album]

Sly the Family Stone: Fresh

Sonic Youth: Washing Machine

Gang Starr: Full Clip

Moodymann: A Silent Introduction

Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes

Led Zeppelin: IV

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

Carl Craig: More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art

Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life, All Music Guide