Holopaw

Gainesville, Florida's delicate indie country-rock group Holopaw is the brainchild of singer/songwriter/guitarist John Orth, who also worked with Isaac Brock (of Modest Mouse) on his side project Ugly Casanova. That resulting album, 2002’s Sharpen Your Teeth, subsequently led to Orth and Holopaw receiving a fair share of attention from the music world as well. In January 2013, the band released the majestic Academy Songs, Vol. 1, led by Orth’s increasingly ornamented songwriting, on Misra Records (preceded by the Golden Sparklers 7” the previous November). In June of that same year, Holopaw also collaborated with Sleeping States on a split 12” EP for Misra as well, Old vs. New/Through 'Til the Morning Comes, to celebrate LGBT Pride Month.

The band has been inactive since 2018.