Who is Michael James Bowman?

Michael J. Bowman is a musician and artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA with his wife and daughter. Mr. Bowman was born in Elk Grove Village, Illinois and attended art school in Syracuse NY. In the mid-to-late 1980s Mr. Bowman played drums for a variety of New York City punk and rock bands. In 1987, one of these bands, "The Hungry Dutchmen", won MTV's Basement Tapes Award. In 1989 Mr. Bowman quit drumming for other bands in order to write and record his own music, singing and playing all the instruments in his lofi basement studio. Between 1989 and 2006, Mr. Bowman released 15 full-length cassette albums of experimental pop-rock on his homemade Semperlofi label, garnering dozens of rave reviews from the underground press. In 1990 the NYC magazine Musician's Exchange voted Mr. Bowman one of the year's "Best Unsigned Artists". A profile in the March 1996 issue of Alternative Press called Mr. Bowman's music "an acid-dosed cube of unrefined sugar". In the Summer of 2001 MJB's song "Joe" reached #2 on MP3.COM's IndiePop/LoFi chart. More recently, Mr. Bowman's large-scale drawings have been exhibited in several Brooklyn art galleries. Mr. Bowman continues to make and show his artwork while recording and releasing obscure albums of experimental pop rock music.