Joe is from the Detroit suburb known as lake Orion, or as the locals call it, the "good hood." While he may be another Michigan Sufjan Stevens , you can also find the sounds of cursive, bloody beatroots, frontier ruckus, immortal technique and al green permeating from his ipod headphones on his walks to class at CMU, where he is studying to be an elementary school teacher. In his free time, Joe likes photography, video games, computers, hunting, microphones, fly-fishing, writing, cooking, detroit sports, and DJing. He may think he sounds like a folk artist, but really it's more than .