The V is the latest incarnation of an ongoing obsession with the creation of musical sounds. No genre is safe, no topic off-limits, no aspiration unpursuable. The V brings over a quarter century of unadulterated adoration of music to the table, and virtually everything he's ever heard is subject to being forced through his cranial filter.Currently recording his debut album, "Decoder Ring," The V has high hopes of finding a willing audience for his aural experimentation. One part reverance for the past plus one part excitement about the future equals The V. If all goes well, a late summer release is expected.

Mogwai, Timbaland, Depeche Mode, Sonic Sum, Bauhaus, Morrissey/The Smiths, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Radiohead, Antony and the Johnsons, The Sex Pistols, The Cure, The Cult, Modest Mouse, The Doors, Peter Gabriel, Queen, newspapers, decrepit warehouses, generic post-adolescent ennui