My Jerusalem

My Jerusalem is an Indie Rock band from the New Orleans, Louisiana area. The band includes Jeff Klein and Dave Rosser of The Twilight Singers, Rick Nelson of Polyphonic Spree, Ashley Dzerigian of Great Northern and Cully Symington of Bishop Allen. Their debut EP was released on March 10 and is titled Without Feathers. My Jerusalem's connecting thread was Jeff Klein, who had played with each of the band's current members on his solo tour and as a member of The Twilight Singers. Klein said that "I didn't actually start out thinking of forming a band. I'd played with all of them at different times, and I was like, 'How great would it be to play will all of these people at the same time?' And then when we did it made perfect sense for that to be what we do. We clicked immediately.". A touring member of the band The Twilight Singers, Klein formed My Jerusalem while The Twilight Singers frontman Greg Dulli engaged in his The Gutter Twins side project. Their grand introduction was at SXSW 2009, in what bandmembers considered their "opening night." In June 2009, both AOL/Spinner and Apple declared My Jerusalem as buzzworthy and promoted the song Sweet Chariot. In October 2009 My Jerusalem embarked on a US tour with Har Mar Superstar and also played the CMJ Music Festival
Formed: United States Members: Jeff Klein, Dave Rosser (guitar), Rick G Nelson III (violin, viola, cello, keyboards), Ashley Dzerigian (bass), Jacob Evans, Cully Symington (drums)