Review Fix Exclusive: Dig Two Graves’ Jaybee Talks Goals And More

Review Fix chats with Dig Two Graves’ Jaybee, who discusses the band’s origin, goals and new single.

Review Fix: How did the project start?

Jaybee: The drummer Kenny and I had been trying to start a band since elementary school. Then in my first, and only year of college, I met Mike in class, and we found Jesse on Instagram and the rest is history. The basic goal was to merge really pretty classical piano/ambient stuff, and heavy music, and it just evolved from there.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Jaybee: I write every song. I write the guitar, background elements like piano and violin, and I put down very simple MIDI drums and bass. From there, I send it to everyone, and they write their stuff around it. Then we get together, practice it a few times, and see if we want to change anything from there.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?

Jaybee: I guess that would be So Below. It’s probably our most ambitious song yet. It took me a couple years to write. It’s pretty long and it has a lot of elements in it, I’m super happy with how it turned out. We also had our good friend Michi sing on the outro, and she did a really great job.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?

Jaybee: Right now, just make it through the quarantine. But, we’re hoping to drop our first album by the end of 2020, and also we’d like to play a few shows, corona-permitting.

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Jaybee: I just want people to have fun with it. I don’t really care how it affects anyone otherwise, that’s up to them.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Jaybee: Keep an eye out for our debut album coming out later this year, and hopefully we’ll see everyone at a show soon!

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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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