us jammin' in the living room, photo by Alex Woods
us goofin' at the magical MorYork, LA
us freakin' at Coaxial, LA
Logan Hone's avant-rollercoaster jazz-n-roll outfit, Similar Fashion, plays his kinetic sing-songs with 🔥fire, ✨sparkle, and 🌷joy. The band has been stomping around Los Angeles and the west coast for the past 5 years, knocking the socks off of open-minded listeners with their playfully weird songs and thrilling improvisations. Slug Magazine called their album 'Portrait of' "an exhilarating and sugar-coated ride".
Similar Fashion has straddled the line between performing in rock & DIY venues like Coaxial, the Bootleg Theater, and house shows while also performing in more formal settings like Angel City Jazz Festival, MorYork, The Blue Whale, and Berkeley Arts Festival. They also teach occasional workshops at schools including University of Utah, University of Reno, Snow College, and College of Southern Idaho.
"Portrait of" was recorded in 2017 & self-released in 2018.
"Logan Hone's Similar Fashion" was recorded & released in 2015 on pfMentum.
Here is a pdf zine of all of the sheet music from the album as well as drafts, notes, and drawings.
an exhilarating and sugar-coated ride— Slug Magazine
Logan Hone’s earnestly weird lyrics evoke the joy of living in California and the joy of living in general.— KFJC
a mostly irreverent romp full of chaotic sounds deftly organized by Hone— LA Weekly
boldness, irreverence and humor enough.— All About Jazz
totally madcap, how-does-this-all-hold-together vision of collaborative music— Independent Clauses
"an intricate yet viscerally compelling musical object, full of inventive layering and development of musical material that remains very accessible, likely in part due to the tangibly joyful ensemble dynamic that you can't help but smile at. — Next Bop
almost suitable as a soundtrack to a TV cartoon, but just a wee too high art and weird for that. You’ll grin at it all the same. — Something Else Reviews
difficult music to be labeled (how wonderful!), abnormal instrumentation, boldness, irreverence and humor enough.— All About Jazz
Vincenzo Roggero's Best of 2016 — All About Jazz
The band sounds like they are getting ready to be the soundtrack for an animation film festival, or at least a Warner Brothers Saturday morning matinee.— Jazz Weekly
There is an underlying feeling of humor that runs through this disc as well as some crafty writing which makes this much easier to swallow than much of the more noisy or more complex music that I music often review. That breath of fresh air certainly does feel good. I always dig music that is impossible to pigeonhole yet remains compelling in unexpected ways.— Downtown Music Gallery Newsletter
Bright Whistles delivered one of the most inspiring local shows I'd ever seen last year, obliterating genre lines in an explosion of creative energy.— Herald Extra
He’s a jazz musician, but his sound has a great deal of indie rock thrown into the mix, and he thrives on blurring musical genres.
— Afar.com