Josh Berwanger

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Josh Berwanger could easily be considered a veteran of the rock and roll wars. He first made a name for himself as a member of The Anniversary, a seminal Kansas band that released two glorious albums (2000’s Designing a Nervous Breakdown and 2002’s Your Majesty) and selling over 100,000 records before imploding in a breakup of Fleetwood Mac-style proportions while attempting to tour Japan. Undeterred, Berwanger put together a new band—a country-rock outfit called The Only Children--and would go on to release two criminally underrated records (2004’s Change of Living and 2007’s Keeper of Youth) before pulling the plug on that project and taking a job doing the next most logical thing possible-- coaching high school basketball in Lawrence, Kansas. Having experienced the highest highs and lowest lows involved with chasing his musical dreams for the better part of two decades, Berwanger found himself at a crossroads—should he finally hang up his guitar for good or should he soldier on, pulling together his best tunes and working with a group of friends to make the best music possible? Luckily, he chose the latter. “There’s this part of me that really wants music to be normal again. I don’t even know what I mean by that exactly, but I know what normal isn’t—designer outfits, fireworks, crazy gimmicks. I don’t know how to relate to that. I want to make rock and roll. I want to make something honest.” Such sentiments make sense coming from a guy who, as a child, used his first commu

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Strange Stains

B-Sides & Demos: Because No One Wants to Hear A-Sides

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Insound/CMJ October 2013 Mixtape

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Daytrotter Studio 11/21/2013

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>`I2 Unwind

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`I2 Unwind

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B-Sides & Demos From Hell

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LoNdOn BuRnInG

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Good Land Records & Friends - Spring 2014

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B-Sides & Demos - Because No One Wants to Hear A-Sides

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