Review Fix Exclusive: Q & A With The Brazilian Johnsons’ João Nogueira & André Vasconcelos

Review Fix chats with João Nogueira and André Vasconcelos from the Brazilian Johnsons, a rock and roll foursome from Brooklyn, New York that employ nifty three-part vocal harmonies and casual, but catchy musicianship. Discussing their current EP, Nogueira and Vasconcelos chat about the band’s origin, tracks off the EP and their future.

Review Fix: How was the band formed?

João Nogueira: The band was formed out of mutual will that evolved into a choice of making rock music with friends.

André Vasconcelos: Being the last member to be added to the group Ill focus on how I found out about it. I saw one of their first rehearsals in a practice space near Michel’s house and I was very impressed by it. I really wanted to join from that moment on. I got invited to be part of the band after they recorded the basics at the studio in CT. Laid my guitar parts on it and have been a full time member ever since.

Review Fix: What are your influences and how do they differ from the other members of the band?

Nogueira: The Black Crowes, Dr. John, Lynyrd Skynyrd and 70’s music, some other members are more into pop contemporary stuff.

Vasconcelos: The Black Crowes and Skynyrd are obvious examples of where we draw some of our influences. Being a person with a very diverse musical taste ranging from Pop to Jazz Fusion. When it comes to Rock I listen to a lot of Stones, The Beatles, Jack White and Zeppelin.

Review Fix: SOS is a cool track. How was it written?

Nogueira: Michel wrote it and brother Johnny Johnson gave it some finishing touches like let’s get rid of this chord here and go to this chord earlier, stuff like that.

Vasconcelos: Brother Johnny Johnson and Michel Johnson are guilty for that one.

Review Fix: What song on the CD best exemplifies your sound?

Nogueira: I think every song has a particular shade of our sound.

Vasconcelos: Although every song shows a different part of our sound I’d say that S.O.S would exemplify our sound better. It’s rock n’ roll, it’s heartfelt, it’s got attitude and three-part harmonies! (Were working on the fourth one, right Bruno?).

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who’s never heard you?

Nogueira: Old school American rock n roll played by young Brazilians.

Vasconcelos: Rock n roll that isn’t afraid of being honest. 5 Brazilian musicians who love to play, sing and compose coming together to create an interesting take in what it is essentially American music.

Review Fix: What are your goals for the band?

Nogueira: To show that this music is still alive and speaks to the human soul, instead of dwelling in cyber space.

Vasconcelos: My goals are to tour with this music, to write/record more of it and to eventually be able to bring it to a large number of people, who will be preferably, at that point, singing along to it.

Review Fix: How do you want this CD to be looked at a few years from now?

Nogueira: As the jumpstart of our career.

Vasconcelos: The 5-track EP they all wished that had 10 more songs in it.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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