Tim Foljahn

Tim Foljahn has played in a lot of bands over the past 40 years, occasionally with some of the biggest names in indie rock, including Cat Power and Thurston Moore, and occasionally in more obscure outfits with names like Spastic Rhythm Tarts or Drop Ceiling. Foljahn grew up in Midland, Michigan, a small city 30 miles outside of Saginaw and also happens to be the same hometown as future Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley. The two crossed paths in the local hardcore scene, playing together for the first time in Faith And Laurels, a band Foljahn describes as “kind of a Joy Division thing.” Even when Foljahn worked as a singer-songwriter, he did under the moniker Two Dollar Guitar, which he says was a product of “that ‘90s thing where you didn’t wanna work under your own name.” But since 2012 h...