Jason Thornberry

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A writer and reporter, Jason Thornberry was also very actively involved in music for many years, playing the drums in a number of punk rock and alternative rock bands in Southern California. His time with the band Mulch saw them perform 200 times in two years, a feat for an unsigned band. Mulch performed with everyone from No Doubt to NOFX in the early 1990s. After a number of years adrift, attempting to find his feet musically, Jason eventually helped form The Pressure. They went from complete obscurity to becoming the toast of Orange County, California, making the cover of The OC Weekly less than a year after they had played their first concert. In 1999, The Pressure was readying the release of their debut album, when it was discovered that their drummer was in hospital. Thornberry was in a coma after being curb-stomped and beaten nearly to death by gang members. His assailants went free.[1][2] Four months later Jason was released in a wheelchair. Within a year he was walking again, and he'd begun to document the experience. Jason would continue to see therapists for a long time, having also temporarily lost the ability to speak or to use the left side of his body after the assault.[3]

He returned to school and edited his college newspaper, The Coast Report, along with contributions to The OC Weekly, URB, Mean Street, and more than two dozen print and online music magazines around the world.[4]

Thornberry has been writing short stories and essays since elementary school, and spent his lengthy convalescence becoming reacquainted with his first love. Jason's style – a mixture of wit, sarcasm, and an often quirky sense of humor – has been seen in music magazines around the world. He has recently finished his first book, a memoir based upon his experiences in music, as well as overcoming a traumatic brain injury.

Jason lives in Seattle with his wife.

Discography

(This list includes musical artists with whom Thornberry appeared.)

  • Mulch

Nowhere to Climb (1994). 13 Dayz (1995). Aces and Spaces (2008). Organic Recordings from Wrightwood's Mulch (2015)

  • The Pressure

My Heart Was Lost (1996). The Pressure (1997). I Wanna Call Someone (1998). v/a Brother Can You Spare Some Ska Vol. 4 (1998). v/a Al's Bar Compilation, Vol. 2 (1998). v/a Styzine Compilation (1998). v/a The Buddy List (1999). Things Move Fast (1999). v/a Orange County Weekly compilation’’ (1999). v/a Sampler WE 20.0’’ (year?).

Journalism

Newspapers:

  • The Stranger
  • The Coast Report
  • The Orange County Weekly

Magazines:

  • American Music Press
  • The Blacklist
  • Central Circuit
  • Mean Street
  • Mic Stand Magazine
  • Skratch
  • URB

Online:

  • Adirondack Review
  • Alternative Zine (Israel)
  • Americore
  • Aversion
  • Beat The Blizzard (UK)
  • Bendies
  • Bite Me!
  • Blistering (Canada)
  • Buzzine
  • California Pop
  • CanEHdian (Canada)
  • Chaos Control Digizine
  • Chaotic Critiques
  • Cosmik Debris
  • Crud (UK)
  • Daily Vault
  • Geek America
  • Gepetto
  • Global Hip Hop
  • Hybrid Magazine
  • Inkblot
  • Legion (Russia)
  • Maelstrom
  • Mavis's Dream
  • Metal Crypt
  • Metal UK (UK)
  • Misfit City (UK)
  • Music-Reviewer AMZ
  • Open Up & Say
  • Pandomag
  • Punk News
  • Rockezine
  • Sweet Tea (UK)
  • 2Walls

References

  1. ^ "Ska Parade Homepage News". Skaparade.com. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Orange County". Ocweekly.com. 6 June 2002. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  3. ^ Rich Kane (2 September 1999). "Life Moves Fast – Page 2 – Music – Orange County". OC Weekly. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  4. ^ [1] Template:Wayback

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