An Evening of Petite Sorcery (and music): Joshua Powell, Claire Vandiver, Hannah Stokes, & more

Joshua Powell is the exhausted wizard at the helm of Indiana’s most haunted astral rock band. From his hardcore roots in the Floridian swamps and beyond the fever dream of his troubadour folk era, Powell’s songs have drifted through genres but maintained a crystalline vision for literarily-informed lyrics that dig for enlightenment in a surrealist muck. Comprising his merry band are blood brother and born drummer, Jacob Powell, rock guitar shaman Adam Shuntich, and virtuosic low end architect, Josh “Bass Mountain” Townsend. The plague year saw these four cloistered together like monks over overdrive pedals, and their first truly co-written album “Skeleton Party” was born on Romanus Records. Audiotree wrote: “Four LP’s and over 900 shows later, the midwestern road dog’s ever- evolving, transcendent style embraces hallucinatory metal and grimy psychedelia.”