Johnny Nameless - The Tower

“Mixing up vintage psych with a dash of surf, punk and blues, johnny nameless has been shaking up the scene since 2019…..crafting an adventurous musical ride that’s anything but ordinary!” (North 2 Shore Festival Committee). The band was an official grantee of the 2024 North To Shore Festival and a finalist in the 2025 Asbury Park Music Awards. They currently live and work at the Jersey shore and are set to release a new LP, “The Tower”, on Mint 400 records this May 2026.

The band consists of John (singer, song writer, multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer) and Susu (drums). The pair met in 2006 while living in New York City. John was working in a band and Susu was completing her studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. The two remained together, becoming more involved in each other’ respective arts. They took their work from New York to Los Angeles and Nashville where they were married in 2015 before returning to John’s hometown at the Jersey Shore. The band formed loosely in 2017 when John taught Susu to play basic drums and she started sitting in for live shows and during recordings. Their first performance was at Ottos Shrunken Head in NYC. For several years prior, John recorded and performed under his given name “John Carpenter” and was acknowledged for an “ability to tap into more genres than you could ever imagine while still sounding like heʼs a complete stranger to modern rock, pop and psych from the past five decades.” (Justin Gage/Aquarium Drunkard). This unique sound found its way across several releases notably the 7″ single “Seasons” (MEX 021), recorded in his parents basement in Toms River, NJ in 1998 and unreleased until 2009 by Brooklyn’s own Mexican Summer. The record received strong reviews, as did his first full-length album, “Fairy Tales Forgotten’’. His recorded work and live act have been reviewed by and featured in numerous publications, notably; Aquarium Drunkard, Stereogum, Alan McGee’s MaxCast/Too Cool To Die, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and The LA Record.