Jason Thornberry Explained

Jason Thornberry (born 1971) is an American writer and musician. His tenure with the Southern California alternative-punk group Mulch saw them perform 200 times in two years as an unsigned band. Mulch performed with No Doubt and NOFX in the early 1990s. Thornberry founded The Pressure, who went from complete obscurity to the cover of OC Weekly less than a year after their first concert. In 1999, The Pressure was readying the release of their debut album Things Move Fast, when Thornberry was discovered in a coma after being beaten nearly to death.^[1] ^[2] Four months later, he was released in a wheelchair. Within a year he was walking again, and Thornberry had begun to document the experience. He continued to see therapists, having also temporarily lost the ability to speak, or to use the left side of his body, as a result of the assault.^[3]

He returned to school and edited his college newspaper, The Coast Report, along with contributions to The OC Weekly, URB, Mean Street, and more than two dozen print and online music magazines around the world.^[4]

Thornberry holds a B.A. from Seattle Pacific University and an M.F.A. from Chapman University.

Bibliography

Journals:

Adirondack Review
Afterimages
ALAN Review
Antonym
Apricity Magazine
Bookends Review
Broadkill Review
Coachella Review
Decadent Review
Dillydoun Review
Door is a Jar Literary Magazine
Entropy
Harbor Review
Hash Journal
Helix Literary & Art Magazine
In Parentheses Literary Magazine
JMWW Journal
Letters Journal
Litro Magazine
Los Angeles Review of Books
North Dakota Quarterly
Olivetree Review
Open: Journal of Arts & Letters
Phantom Kangaroo
Poet’s Choice
Poor Yorick Literary Magazine
Praxis Magazine for Arts and Literature
Rejection Letters
Response
Rougarou: Journal of Arts & Literature
Route 7 Review
Sledgehammer Literary Journal
Soundings East
South Florida Poetry Journal
TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics
Thimble Literary Magazine

Magazines:

American Music Press
The Blacklist
Capable Magazine
Central Circuit
Flipside
Litro Magazine
Mean Street
Mic Stand Magazine
Response
Resurrection Magazine
Skratch
Sleet
Uncomfortable Revolution
URB

Newspapers:

Coast Report
Orange County Weekly
The Stranger

Online:

Alternative Zine (Israel)
Americore
AMZ Music Zine
Aversion
Beat The Blizzard (UK)
Bendies
Bite Me!
Blistering (Canada)
Buzzine
California Pop
CanEHdian (Canada)
Chaos Control Digizine
Chaotic Critiques
Cosmik Debris
Crud (UK)
Daily Vault
Dissident Voice
Geek America
Gepetto
Global Hip Hop
Hybrid Magazine
Inkblot
Legion (Russia)
Maelstrom
Mavis's Dream
Metal Crypt
Metal UK (UK)
Mic Stand Online
Misfit City (UK)
Open Up & Say
Pandomag
Punk News
Rockezine
60 Seconds
Sweet Tea (UK)
2Walls
Vivid Hues

Discography

(This list includes musical artists with whom Thornberry appeared.)

The Pressure

My Heart Was Lost (1996).
The Pressure (1997).
I Wanna Call Someone (1998).
v/a Brother Can You Spare Some Ska Vol. 4 (1998).
v/a Al's Bar Compilation, Vol. 2 (1998).
v/a Styzine Compilation (1998).
v/a The Buddy List (1999).
Things Move Fast (1999).
v/a Orange County Weekly compilation (1999).
v/a Sampler WE 20.0 (year?).

Mulch

Nowhere to Climb (1994).
13 Dayz (1995).
Aces and Spaces (2008).
Organic Recordings from Wrightwood's Mulch (2015)

Zad

Grátest Hits (1992).
Scenes From a White Trash Picnic (1992).

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Ska Parade Homepage News . Skaparade.com . 15 May 2011.
Web site: 6 June 2002 . Orange County . https://web.archive.org/web/20120929204457/http://www.ocweekly.com/content/printVersion/38226/ . 29 September 2012 . 15 May 2011 . Ocweekly.com.
Web site: Rich Kane . 2 September 1999 . Life Moves Fast – Page 2 – Music – Orange County . https://web.archive.org/web/20110807063432/https://www.ocweekly.com/1999-09-09/music/life-moves-fast/2/ . 7 August 2011 . 15 May 2011 . Ocweekly.com.
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