Jed Davis

In March 2017, The Hanslick Rebellion released a politically-charged single, "Who'll Apologize For This Disaster Of A Life", accompanied by an animated video created by Davis.

Davis and several of his longtime collaborators unveiled the collective The Congregation Of Vapors in April 2016, making a significant catalogue of their music available by subscription through a website, tcov.net, with new material added regularly. The back catalogue includes Davis solo material, plus music by Skyscape, The Hanslick Rebellion, Sevendys, Space Toilets, and Jeebus.

In July, 2012, Davis released the full-length album Small Sacrifices Must Be Made! on Eschatone Records. Davis' band for the album consists of guitarist Reeves Gabrels, drummer Anton Fig and bassist Graham Maby.

Davis is enamored of archaic media formats. He released the single "Yuppie Exodus From Dumbo" on cylinder record in June 2010. The limited edition of 50 copies was signed and numbered by Davis and Michael Doret, who designed the packaging.

A number of Davis' finished but unreleased recordings from the Collider era, executive-produced by Dave Fridmann and mixed by Tony Doogan, were compiled and released in 2010 as The Cutting Room Floor. Psychedelic artist Victor Moscoso provided vibrating color cover art.

An ongoing collaboration between Davis, guitarist Avi Zahner-Isenberg and drummer Sheridan Riley of Avi Buffalo, bassist Chuck Rainey and percussionist Jerry Marotta, Sevendys began in December, 2010. The band meets several times a year to record and perform. Since 2010, Sevendys has recorded a dozen songs together, with sessions at SugarHill in Houston, TX, EastWest in Los Angeles and Dreamland in Woodstock, NY. Many of these songs have already been released as digital singles on the band's Web site, music.sevendys.com, and the double A-side "So So Close"/"When I Step Off The Train" was pressed in a signed, limited red 7" vinyl edition by LA label JAXART.

Skyscape is still active, releasing the full-length albums Zetacarnosa in 2009 and Dr. Des Moines in 2016.

Davis began working with a new band, Jeebus, in 2009. Jeebus includes members of both Collider and the Hanslick Rebellion, plus Reeves Gabrels. The band toured through the American South and Midwest in the summer of 2009, and recorded a 10-song album, Jesus Christ's Supercar, which has yet to be released.

In July 2008, Davis recorded 14 songs for a solo album at Chicago's Electrical Audio with engineer Steve Albini. As is customary for Albini recordings, the entire album was captured live to tape as performed by Davis and drummer Joe Abbatantuono. This recording was released on 8-track tape in July, 2011, under the title Shoot The Piano Player.

In his role at Eschatone, Davis signed Daddy Long Legs (musician Brian Hurd, who debuted with The Visitors on Eschatone in 2007) and Hand Habits to their first record contracts, and oversaw the compilation of previously-unreleased Jobriath material into the full-length album As The River Flows (2014).

Davis formed a new band, The Hanslick Rebellion, in 1995 with Dubovoy and bassist Mike Keaney. Known for a live show matched in intensity only by the group's backstage in-fighting, the Rebellion self-released the live cassette the rebellion is here in 1996. The volatile band imploded and ended in early 1997, reuniting for a tenth anniversary performance at New York's CBGB on September 22, 2005.

Davis resumed full-time duty with The Hanslick Rebellion following their 2005 reunion; to date they have released a remastered version of the rebellion is here on CD, a digital EP entitled The Deli Of Life, which spawned a successful online video for the song "You Are Boring The Shit Out Of Me", and a second digital EP, Let's Get To The Fucking, which explores a fusion of rock and reggaeton.

After Collider disbanded in 2004, Davis released a single, "With Love From America", under the band name The Congregation Of Vapors.

Moving to lower Manhattan influenced Davis's transition from electroclash toward a rawer punk sound, and to that end he began collaborating with some of New York's original punk rockers. Collider's final release, WCYF (2003), was produced by Ramones drummer/producer Tommy Ramone. In addition, Davis's tribute song to Joey Ramone, "The Bowery Electric", brought Tommy, Marky and C.J. Ramone, as well as Ramones producer Daniel Rey, together for a historic recording session.

"The Bowery Electric" was released as a single on Spanish label No Tomorrow (2002), and later on the Ramones compilation album The Family Tree (2008).

In 2001, J-Bird Records honored Davis with Everybody Wants to be Like Jed, a tribute album which featured cover art by Peter Bagge and performances of signature Davis tunes by an eclectic host of indie artists including Brian Dewan, Daniel Johnston, Anal Cunt, Wesley Willis, King Missile and members of Agnostic Front.

Between 2000 and 2005, Davis composed the music and lyrics for a stage musical, Rise and Shine, with librettist Arturo Vega. An attempt to record the musical in album form was aborted after several years of work, despite a voice cast which included Dicky Barrett, C.J. Ramone, Matthew Koma, Brian Dewan and Jessy Moss. Following Vega's death in 2013, Davis resumed work on the recording in tribute to his friend, adding Heather Maloney, Miss Guy, Avi Buffalo and Shea Diamond to the cast.

After graduation from UAlbany, Davis moved to Woodhaven, Queens, and began composing in earnest across the musical spectrum, releasing two solo albums, We're All Going to Jail! (1997) and Jed Davis Wastes 8 Years of His Life for Your Listening Pleasure (1999) on Connecticut-based independent label J-Bird Records.

As programmer for the electronica/punk fusion band Collider (formed 1997), Davis was a pioneer of New York City's electroclash movement. Collider's debut album, 1998's Blowing Shit Up, was a mash-up of samples, dance grooves, synthesizers, and rock guitars applied to traditional pop forms and themes. The band's second album, Physics (1999), while still performed entirely on electronic instruments (including the Roland VG-8 guitar modeling system), was a step in a more traditional pop/rock direction, with samples of acoustic instruments employed throughout.

As a high-school senior, keyboardist Davis formed the band Skyscape with singer Domenic Maltempi in 1991. Skyscape recorded a CD, Band Of The Week, two years later. After moving to the Albany area to attend the State University of New York at Albany, Davis performed in a solo capacity, self-releasing a demo tape titled Jed Has Too Much Free Time. The demo's 33 songs were recorded on a 4-track cassette recorder by Davis and guitarist Alex Dubovoy in one weekend marathon.

Jed Davis (born July 7, 1975 in Farmingdale, New York) is an American musician based in New York City. He sings and plays keyboards as a solo artist and with Sevendys, The Hanslick Rebellion, Skyscape, Space Toilets, and Jeebus, and occasionally with Avi Buffalo.