Maniac – Which came first: the music or the media?

From the inception of #1 This Week, a blog started by Shawn Harris (formerly of The Matches) and Jake Grigg (of Something with Numbers), the site was a source of homemade videos, pop music covers, and possible art designs for the band. It was created to communicate and share ideas for the band while apart, Shawn [...]

On the Verge: iChat with Shawn Harris (Maniac)

In a special iChat edition of On the Verge, PV’s Joelle has a cross-continent chat with Shawn Harris. We’d call him the eccentric half of Maniac, but his partner in crime, Jake Grigg, is right up there with him. That’s what makes this collaboration between two of music’s much-loved frontmen (Harris hails from California’s the [...]

On The Verge: The Matches (long lost interview)

In honor of the one-year anniversary since the On the Verge launch party (feat. performances by the Matches, Those Mockingbirds and Drive By), we dug up never-released footage of our chat backstage with the Matches. The guys discuss math rock, the future of the touring biz (robots), the benefits of cranberry juice, and make fun [...]

Maniac Cover Black Eyed Peas

Remember when I told you exciting things were on the way from Shawn Harris post-Matches?
It’s MANIAC, his collaboration with Jake Grigg, frontman for Australia’s Something With Numbers).
Although separated by earth’s largest ocean, frontmen Shawn Harris and Jake Grigg–linked by love forsincere, undisguised pop–have created a new project: Maniac.
They wrote their first song together on the way [...]