Jerad Tomasino balances day and night
Melissa Cowan
Issue date: 11/16/09 Section: Culture
Jerad Tomasino was waiting for the right sound for the band name, Everyday/Everynight. He found it last January.
"I suggested it to another band I was in and they said no," Tomasino said. "So I wrote a song called that (Everyday/Everynight). Then I heard this music that Evan (Ashby) wrote and I was like, 'That's Everyday/Everynight - that's beautiful.' It's got that push and pull of really pretty, but heart-wrenching, too."
The song "Everyday/Everynight" is on their current album, Moon Phases.
Tomasino sings, plays guitar and keyboard and writes for Everyday/Everynight. He's also a junior at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance. He is majoring in Music Education but would like to get into the composition program.
Two of the other three band members, Mat Shoare (vocals/guitar/keyboard) and Evan Ashby (guitar), also attend the Conservatory. Micah Holdaway (drums) attends William Jewell College.
Tomasino and Holdaway are both originally from Omaha, Neb.
"We've been playing together since eighth grade," Tomasino said. "We were in a pop-punk band for a couple of years."
Tomasino moved to Kansas City after his sophomore year of high school.
"We still kind of played a little bit," Tomasino said. "But for a couple of years, I was just doing solo stuff."
Then he met Shoare and Ashby in a choir class at UMKC.
"We were good friends and everything," Tomasino said. "We jammed every once in a while. It wasn't really to start anything."
Tomasino eventually got to the point where he wanted to make a record of the songs he'd written, but he "could never get it to that polished level. It was never complete."
He decided to collaborate with the other three members of his current band.
"I just got to the point where I got out of that mechanical sort of mindset (of songwriting)," Tomasino said. "All of the songs are straightforward folk songs, not a lot of choruses or bridges."
Moon Phases is a transitional, progressive story and an evolution of Tomasino personally.
"I suggested it to another band I was in and they said no," Tomasino said. "So I wrote a song called that (Everyday/Everynight). Then I heard this music that Evan (Ashby) wrote and I was like, 'That's Everyday/Everynight - that's beautiful.' It's got that push and pull of really pretty, but heart-wrenching, too."
The song "Everyday/Everynight" is on their current album, Moon Phases.
Tomasino sings, plays guitar and keyboard and writes for Everyday/Everynight. He's also a junior at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance. He is majoring in Music Education but would like to get into the composition program.
Two of the other three band members, Mat Shoare (vocals/guitar/keyboard) and Evan Ashby (guitar), also attend the Conservatory. Micah Holdaway (drums) attends William Jewell College.
Tomasino and Holdaway are both originally from Omaha, Neb.
"We've been playing together since eighth grade," Tomasino said. "We were in a pop-punk band for a couple of years."
Tomasino moved to Kansas City after his sophomore year of high school.
"We still kind of played a little bit," Tomasino said. "But for a couple of years, I was just doing solo stuff."
Then he met Shoare and Ashby in a choir class at UMKC.
"We were good friends and everything," Tomasino said. "We jammed every once in a while. It wasn't really to start anything."
Tomasino eventually got to the point where he wanted to make a record of the songs he'd written, but he "could never get it to that polished level. It was never complete."
He decided to collaborate with the other three members of his current band.
"I just got to the point where I got out of that mechanical sort of mindset (of songwriting)," Tomasino said. "All of the songs are straightforward folk songs, not a lot of choruses or bridges."
Moon Phases is a transitional, progressive story and an evolution of Tomasino personally.
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