Kopecky

Nashville's Kopecky Family Band isn't a family in the specific sense, but a close community of friends who generate a kind of diversely instrumented and melodic folk-pop together. Founded by Kelsey Kopecky and Gabe Simon in 2007 after a dorm room jam, the group eventually stabilized with a lineup of Kopecky, Simon, Steven Holmes, David Krohn, Markus Midkiff, and Corey Oxendine, and it's a versatile group, with members often switching to different instruments, all of which gives the Kopecky Family Band a broad sonic palette. The band released three EPs, Embraces (2008) and The Disaster and Of Epic Proportions (both in 2010), before signing with ATO Records and issuing a debut full-length album, Kids Raising Kids, in the spring of 2013. Drug for the Modern Age followed in 2015. ~ Steve Leggett