So what if the four members of Bear in Heaven are from the South? Save for a few rappers, jazzmen and big-gutted dudes flashing Strats in Bay Ridge bar bands, how many Brooklyn musicians are actually from Brooklyn? And yet the Southern issue keeps coming up. Writers—this one included—ask about it in interviews, and reviewers, in tracing the band’s history, often mention that singer and guitarist Jon Philpot, guitarist Adam Wills and bassist Sadak Bazarra knew one another back in their native Georgia, before moving to Brooklyn in the early ‘00s. Drummer Joe Stickney, a college friend of Wills’, hails from Alabama. – Read Ken Partridge full feature on the band here.