Skyward

Skyward is a big, alternative rock band founded in the big, alternative mountains of Harrisonburg, Virginia. After four years and close to 400 shows all up and down the East Coast, Skyward now chooses to call Charlottesville, Virginia home. With music built around powerful, driving rhythms and soaring lead lines and melodies in the vein of acts like Imagine Dragons, Skyward’s sound would not be out of place in large venues in front of massive crowds. And yet, their music has an intimate, unifying quality as well. With lyrics Jon describes as “honest attempts at self-discovery,” Skyward works to write and perform engaging and impactful music that challenges audiences to really search for meaning.

Now armed with their most recent EP “Drift,” (released on iTunes and Amazon on April 15, 2014) recorded at Spotlight Sound Studio in Atlanta, Georgia, Skyward expects big things on the horizon. “We’ve really stepped it up on Drift,” Jordan explains. “From the writing to the instrumentation to the production, it’s all gotten bigger, meatier, and more powerful.” Mike Schoeffel of The Dominion Collective writes that ““Every aspect of Drift seems to be geared toward the idea of expansiveness: the scorching guitar riffs, the sparse piano notes, the bellowing drums, the anthemic vocals…they all coalesce into a grandiose sound that gives the listener a feeling of elevation.”Music that is, in a word, big. And as they always say, “Go big…”